10th European Individual Chess Championship
Montenegro - Budva - March 5-19th,2009
 
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10. POJEDINAČNO PRVENSTVO EVROPE U ŠAHU
 
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Finally we got all the answers. The new European champion is Tomashevsky (RUS), silver medal goes to Malakhov (RUS) and that one of bronze to Jobava (GEO).
The qualifiers for the World Cup besides those first 11, are: Meier (GER), Nijboer (NED), Fedorchuk (UKR), Timofeev (RUS), Sjugirov (RUS), Bartel (POL), Mamedov (AZE), Motylev (RUS), Savchenko (RUS), Sakaev (RUS) , Vitiugov (RUS), Petrosian (ARM), Nisipeanu (ROU) and Lupulescu (ROU).
Looking all the day at these games which were full of turn overs, blunders and even losses on time in a completely winning positions, I cannot avoid to raise a question about the regularity of such a system. According to myself there are couple of things that are highly controversial. First of all, why a player must win one more tournament to confirm his victory according to the standard rules (Sokolov (NED) in this case, who was first on Bucholz). What is even worse, that second tournament is played with completely different rules (knock-out system, rate of play). Especially arguable is the rate of play which has nothing to do with the tournament play. It is quite clear that such games offer a spectacle (today there was a double number of enters on the official website), but a portion of additional stress suffered by the players after 11 days of tough battles makes much more damage comparing to the profit. The problem is that all these strange ideas are coming from the amaters who never found themselves in such situations, while on the other side chess players are inert and not organized at all in order to be able to have some influence in such cases and to bring through their own ideas. I used to be a FIDE delegate for 4 years (1991-1995), long enough to know how things are going on in that organization.  
At the end, all our compliments go to the organizers for a perfectly organized tournament that will certainly remain in good memory of all the participants regardless of their result.
Good luck to all of you!

 

 

M.Cebalo

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