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The top seeded teams in the Open section are: Superchess (Average rating of players 2730), Alkaloid (Average rating of players 2706), Novy Bor Chess Club (Average rating of players 2691), Bayegan Pendik Chess Sports Club (Average rating of players 2683), and Turkish Airlines (Average rating of players 2682).

The rating favorites in the Women’s section are: Cercle d’Echecs de Monte-Carlo (Average rating of players 2489), Garuda Ajka BSK (Average rating of players 2459), TAJFUN SK Ljubljana (Average rating of players 2437), Superchess (Average rating of players 2426) and Sirmium Sremska Mitrovica (Average rating of players 2418).

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The event gathers world-known players, including 15 players rated 2700+ in the Open section:
GM Arjun Erigaisi (2797, Alkaloid), GM Gukesh D (2794, Superchess), GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2783, Superchess), GM Alireza Firouzja (2767, C’Chartres Echecs), GM Wei Yi (2763, Alkaloid), GM Praggnanandhaa R (2746, Superchess), GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2733, Bayegan Pendik Chess Sports Club) etc.

In the Women’s tournament, the bestrated players are: GM Aleksandra Goryachkina (2533, Cercle d’Echecs de Monte-Carlo), GM Nana Dzagnidze (2513, TAJFUN SK Ljubljana), IM Divya Deshmukh (2501, Garuda Ajka BSK), GM Zhu Jiner (2499, TAJFUN SK Ljubljana), IM Bibisara Assaubayeva (2487, Garuda Ajka BSK), GM Vaishali Rameshbabu (2487, Cercle d’Echecs de Monte-Carlo) etc.

The event will be broadcasted through the ECU TV platform with live video broadcast and commentaries by GM Alojzije Jankovic and Dragana Nikolovska. The video broadcast will also be available on the ECU YouTube channel.

As part of today’s activities FM Dragan Živić gave a simul at the King Milan square of the city. Participants were children from the Chess School of the Children’s Cultural and Recreation Center, members of the Chess Section of Elementary School “Ivan Goran Kovačić” and Elementary School “Dr. Zoran Đinđić”, as well as children who visited the event, participated. A total of 29 boards were setup for the simul and FM Dragan Zivic won 26 games and drew 3 – after 2 hours of play, Dimitrije Frtunić, Lucija Jajac and Mateja Jovanović shook hands with the FIDE Master for a draw.

FM Zivic said for Chessdom, “It was a great honor and pleasure to see smart children and their desire to compete. The audience in the central city square was like at a football match!”

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The simul was completed with the help of MK Goran Savić, while arbiter of the event was Prof. Dragana Dimitrijevic – Blagojević – candidate masters and head of the chess section in the schools whose children participated. The technical organization was helped by prof. Jovan Zivkovic. Each child received sweet presents and a surprise by Branka Đorđević, director of SC Čair, who brought the children extra prizes from the renowned brand “Puma”.

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Serbian Women Team Chess Championship participants

The European Chess Club Cup 2024 is on the horizon. It takes place from 19 to 25 October in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia. 85 teams registered for the Open section, represented by 585 players. A total of 139 Grandmasters participate with top players including Alireze Firouzja, Arjun Erigaisi, Gukesh, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Wei Yi, Praggnanandhaa, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Vincent Keymer, Dmitry Andreikin, Parham Maghsoodloo, Santosh Gujrathi Vidit, etc. To sum it up, at the European Chess Club Cup there will be the whole gold medal winning team of India, the top performers from Europe at the Olympiad, and a myriad of rising stars. Scroll down for the full participants list.

The team of SuperChess is top seeded with average rating of 2722. It has Gukesh, Abdusattorov, Pragg, Jorden Van Foreest, Bogdan-Daniel Deac, Javokhir Sindarov, Kirill Shevchenko, and Constantin Lupulescu. Captain of the team is Ivan Sokolov (all news about Sokolov here). This will be the last classical tournament for Gukesh before his World Championship match with Ding Liren.

Update: In view of Kirill Shevchenko’s case, Schevchenko will be substituted by his captain Ivan Sokolov for the European Chess Club Cup 2024.

Second seeded are Alkaloid, who make a noticeable comeback to the European Chess Club Cup. Their average rating is 2699 and on the team are Arjun Erigaisi, Wei Yi, Yu Yangui, Chithambaram Aravindh, S L Narayanan, Aleksandr Indjic, Velimir Ivic, and Filip Pancevski.

Third by average rating are Novy Bor with 2689. They come with David Navara, Vincent Keymer, Thai Dai Van Nguyen, David Anton, Nils Grandelius, Vidit, Mateusz Bartel, and Pentala Harikrishna.

But to understand the strength of the European Chess Club Cup, one has to look at the 7th seeded club C’Chartres Echecs – there we will see Alireza Firouzja, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Laurent Fressinet, Marc`andria Maurizzi, Daniel Dardha, Maxime Lagrade, Christian Bauer, and Namig Guliyev. And they are far from being favorites for the event!

The European Women Club Cup is no smaller, stay tuned for the full information about the women section of the event.

European Chess Club Cup 2024 participants

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More events: Schachbundesliga 2024 – 2025 / Serbian Team Chess Championship / Slovenian Team Chess Championship / Romanian Team Chess Championship / Japan Team Chess Championship / 2024 US Chess Championship

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