27 November 2017
RZD Wins 1st European Corporate Championship
Sberbank is second.
Photo: Website of the European Chess Union
The first European Corporate Chess Championship took place in the capital of France, on November 24-25. 33 teams took part in the rapid tournament (Swiss system, 9 rounds). The 1st European Corporate Champion became the team of RZD from Russia (Russian Railways) headed by Sergei Rublevsky. The champions scored 26 match points.
The runner-up of the Championship was the team of Sberbank, from Russia, who finished the Championship as second with 25 match points. Denis Khismatullin was playing on the first board.
Third place went to A’lAbri from France thanks to the better tie-breaks than fourth Echesspedia from Belgium since both teams had the same score of 21 match points.
The total prize fund of the event was 6.000 EUR.
Information at the ECU website
Official website
Our congratulations to the Russian teams on their successful performance at the first European Corporate Championship!
