European Chess Union (ECU) is an independent sports association founded in 1985 in Graz, Austria; ECU holds the rights of European Chess Championships.
Bulgaria 🇧🇬 wins European Women’s Team Chess Championship 2023 after taking a narrow 2.5-1.5 victory over Georgia 🇬🇪 in a thrilling last round match! Congratulations! 👏 🏆
#ETCC2023
IM Ulviyya Fataliyeva 🇦🇿 is the European Women’s Chess Champion 2024! 🏆👏
She drew with Black against GM Nino Batsiashvili 🇬🇪 and secured the sole first place! Congratulations! 👏🎉
IM Ulviyya Fataliyeva🇦🇿 clinches the European Women’s Chess Championship 2024 after drawing as black against GM Nino Batsiashvili 🇬🇪!
Here are the final moments from the game 🎥
#ewcc2024
Congratulations to the Winners of the European Women’s Chess Championship 2023! 👏
#ETCC2023
🏆Bulgaria 🇧🇬, 16 match points
🥈Azerbaijan 🇦🇿, 15 match points
🥉France 🇫🇷, 12 match points
Final rankings:
♟️IM Ediz Gürel Dünya Kupası’nda! Seninle gurur duyuyoruz Ediz!🇹🇷🤍❤️
♟️Avrupa Bireysel Satranç Şampiyonası'nda harika bir performans sergileyen ve ikinci GM normunu da almayı başaran genç yıldızımız IM Ediz Gürel, final turunda aldığı galibiyetle büyük bir başarıya daha imza…
It’s official! Serbia 🇷🇸 wins European Team Chess Championship 2023 thanks to the better tiebreaks than Germany 🇩🇪!
Congratulations to the Winners
@serbiachess1
!🏆👏👏
The 2nd leg of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix takes place from 28th February - 14th March in Belgrade, Serbia.
The event gathers 16 elite chess players who compete for 150.000$ prize fund & Grand Prix points which will eventually decide the two qualifiers for the Candidates Tournament.
Nine-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan 🏴 still playing her game against IM Jovanka Houska🏴.
It’s been six hours since the start of the round and this is the very last game of today’s 5th round.
The final standings of the European Women’s Chess Championship 2024 have been published!
#ewcc2024
Congratulations to the Winners:
🏆 Ulviyya Fataliyeva 🇦🇿
🥈 Nataliya Buksa 🇺🇦
🥉 Lela Javakhishvili 🇬🇪
Final rankings:
Congratulations to chess legend, Nona Gaprindashvili, on her 78th birthday anniversary!
Nona Gaprindashvili, Women’s World Champion, was the first woman to be awarded the Grandmaster title. She won 25 Olympic medals, among which 11 team gold medals and 9 individual gold medals.
David Navara 🇨🇿 wins European Blitz Chess Championship 2023! 🏆
Navara won the last round against GM Etienne Bacrot 🇫🇷 to emerge as the sole winner of the event with the score of 11.5/13 points! After winning the European Blitz Championship 2022 in Katowice, David Navara…
European Women’s Chess Championship 2024 is officially declared closed!
#ewcc2024
The Closing Ceremony took place this evening in the playing venue with the attendance of ECU Vice Presidents Alojzije Jankovic and Eva Repkova, the Vice Governor of South Aegean region Akis…
Congratulations to David Navara and Alexandra Kosteniuk on winning the European Open & Women Blitz Chess Championship 2022 (respectively)! 🏆 👏
Final rankings:
Official website:
European Rapid Chess Championship 2021 has just concluded!
After 11 played rounds 3 players tied for the top scoring 9.5 points each. Tiebreaks criteria decided the Champion and the medalists:
🏆Motylev Alexander🇷🇺
🥈Donchenko Alexander🇩🇪
🥉Pultinevicius Paulius🇱🇹
Congrats!👏
European Rapid&Blitz Chess Championship 2023 starts in less than two weeks in
#Zagreb
,
#Croatia
!
Among 600 registered players from 40 European federations are well-known chess players, as well as Dejan Joveljic - a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Major League…
The most exciting moment for the millions of chess fans has arrived. Tomorrow is the opening and in 3 days the 1st game between the World Champion Magnus Carlsen (NOR) & the Challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi (RUS). Follow the action on the official website:
“I am very emotional right now. I spoke with my friends and they know, I had no ambitions here. And it happened to be my best result ever!”, Ulviyya Fataliyeva, the Winner of the European Chess Championship 2024, now in our live studio!
➡️Follow live:
Alexey Sarana 🇷🇸 wins European Rapid Chess Championship 2023 after dramatical last round! 🏆
Sarana won his game against Casper Schoppen 🇳🇱 to emerge as the sole Winner of the event with 9.5 points and to claim his third European Champion title this year! After winning European…
The first event of the
@GrandChessTour
opens today in Bucharest.
Superbet Chess Classic will take place from 4-15 June with participation of top GMs and a total prize fund of 325.000$. The opening ceremony starts in 1 hour, while the games start tomorrow.
Congratulations to 8-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan 🏴 on the outstanding performance at European Women’s Blitz Chess Championship 2023!
Scoring 8.5/13 points, Bodhana finished the event on the 15th place, earning 75.6 ELO (blitz) points. 👏
The
@FIDE_chess
World Women’s and Open Rapid & Blitz
#Chess
Championships 2021 start today in
#Warsaw
,
#Poland
.
More than 180 players from 46 federations registered for the Open event and more than 100 players from 30 federations signed in Women’s events.
European Chess Union expresses the deepest condolences to Croatian Chess community and the family of the legendary GM Miso Cebalo who passed away last evening. Miso Cebalo (1945-2022) was a Croatian grandmaster, FIDE Senior trainer, and World Senior Chess Champion 2009.
Congratulations to World
#chess
Legend, Judit Polgar, on her birthday anniversary!
At the age of 12, she was the youngest player ever to break into the FIDE Top 100 players and she achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15, at the time the youngest to have done so.
𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐳
#Chess
𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎!
@GMGawain
convincingly won the Final match against Shirov Alexei to win the event, while Bluebaum Matthias won David Navara in the match for the 3rd place!
Congrats!👏
European Individual Women Chess Championship 2022 concluded yesterday.
GM Monika Socko🇵🇱 won the event scoring 8.5 points, while five players tied for the 2nd place with 8 points. With the best tiebreaks, IM Gunay Mammadzada🇦🇿 came silver and WGM Ulviyya Fataliyeva🇦🇿 won bronze.
Congratulations to Alexandra Kosteniuk on winning the double gold at the European Women's Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship 2023 in
#Monaco
!
@chessqueen
👏🏆🏆
Alexandra Kosteniuk🇨🇭scored a victory in the last round against Anna Ushenina🇺🇦 to emerge as the sole winner of the…
The 2021 European Rapid&Blitz Chess Championships kick off on Friday in
#Katowice
, Poland.
The first event on the schedule will be the European Blitz Chess Championship 2021 taking place on 17th of December, and the Rapid Championship will be held from 18th-19th December.
The 86th edition of the
@tatasteelchess
commences tomorrow in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands!
#tatasteelchess2024
The event features 14 super grandmasters who will compete in a 13-round round-robin tournament. The field is led by the reigning World Chess Champion GM Ding Liren…
European
#Chess
Union congratulates to the new Speaker of the
#Lithuanian
Parliament Grandmaster & top
#Chess
player Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen. She was elected by a secret ballot with 106 votes in favour, 18 against and 5 abstentions. photo credit
@LRSeimas
@VCmilyte
The Winners of European Team Chess Championship 2023 crowned in
#Budva
,
#Montenegro
. Congratulations to the Winners!
#ETCC2023
🏆Serbia 🇷🇸, 15 match points
🥈Germany 🇩🇪, 15 match points
🥉Armenia 🇦🇲, 13 match points
Final rankings:
European Blitz Chess Championship 2021 concluded in
#Katowice
, Poland!
After 22 played rounds, the Winners are:
🏆Duda Jan-Krzysztof 🇵🇱, 18 points
🥈Klekowski Maciej 🇵🇱 17.5 points
🥉Demchenko Anton 🇷🇺 16.5 points
Congratulations! 👏
Final results:
The winners of the European Women's Chess Championship 2021 receive their trophies.
🏆Danielian Elina 🇦🇲
🥈Osmak Iulija 🇺🇦
🥉Kiolbasa Olivia 🇵🇱
Final report:
European Chess Union is deeply saddened to hear about the loss of Joanna Dworakowska.
IM/WGM Joanna Dworakowska was a three-time Polish Women's Chess Champion and a member of the women's national team that won the bronze medal in the 2002 Chess Olympiad at Bled, the gold medal…
The European Chess Union appoints IA (A) Shohreh Bayat as the Chief Arbiter of the 1st European
#Chess
Championship for Pairs, an official side event of the 2023
#Krakow
European Games.
@eg2023en
In 2021, Shohreh Bayat was awarded the International Women…
The Board of the European Chess Union met in extraordinary session on Thursday 3rd of March to discuss the situation in Ukraine and appropriate measures. With immediate effect, ECU suspends the Russian and Belarusian Chess Federations.
𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐒𝐣𝐚𝐤𝐤𝐥𝐮𝐛🇳🇴 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐬🇷🇴 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧❜𝐬 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐛 𝐂𝐮𝐩 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑!
Intense last round determined the Winners of the 38th European Chess Club and the 27th edition of the Women's…
Nine-year-old WCM Bodhana Sivanandan🏴 continues with fantastic play in the European Women’s Chess Championship 2024! Today she drew against WGM Elvira Berend🇱🇺 and earns 80+ rating points!
After the game, Bodhana and Elvira went to the analysis area to exchange their thoughts…
𝐈𝐌 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐳𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧❜𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑!
Congratulations to the medalists:
🏆IM Meri Arabidze 🇬🇪
🥈IM Oliwia Kiolbasa 🇵🇱
🥉IM Aleksandra Maltsevskaya 🇵🇱
After 11 played rounds, IM Meri …
European Corporate
#Chess
Championship 2022 starts on Saturday, June 18th.
The event will be played on a luxury ship Royal Spido while sailing in the Rotterdam harbour, with 17 teams and world-known players:
@anishgiri
,
@loekvanwely
,
@max_warmerdam
.
Magnus Carlsen wins FIDE World Chess Championship for the 5th consecutive time!
After today's victory over the challenger- Ian Nepomniachtchi, the FIDE World Chess Championship Match 2021 ended with a final result 7.5-3.5 in favor of Magnus Carlsen.
Congrats! 👏
📸
@FIDE_chess
The 1st round of the 36th European
#Chess
Club Cup and 25th European Women's Chess Club Cup has started in
#Struga
, North Macedonia!
#ecc2021
38 teams in Open and 8 teams in Women's event are represented by top World and European Grandmasters coming from more than 35 countries!
Everything set for the European Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship starts tomorrow Friday 17th December at 10.00 with the European Blitz
#Chess
Championship.
@FIDE_chess
Congratulations to Italian Chess Federation!
After a dramatic finish of the last round, Italy conquered the top of Mitropa
#Chess
Cup 2021 winning in both Women’s and Open sections.🏆
Full report here:
Round 5 video recap of the European Team Chess Championship 2023 is here! 📽
#etcc2023
Today is the free day and games continue tomorrow in
#Budva
,
#Montenegro
!
Congratulations to
#Chess
Legend, Nona Gaprindashvili (Georgia), on her 80th birthday anniversary! Nona, Women's World Champion(1962-1978), was the 1st female player to be awarded the GM title. She won 25 Olympic medals, including 11 team gold medals & 9 individual gold medals!
European Chess Union congratulates the 12th World Champion and
#Chess
Legend, Anatoly Karpov on his 70th birthday! Happy 70th birthday to the man who taught everyone how to be the best chess player they can be!
Congratulations to Kashlinskaya Alina (RUS) who became European Women’s Chess Champion 2019!
Five players tied for the top, each with 8 points, but Kashlinskaya took gold with the best tiebreaks, Sebag Marie (FRA) came second, while bronze medal went to Paehtz Elisabeth (GER).
Congratulations to Alexandra Kosteniuk on winning the 2nd leg of the
@FIDE_chess
Women's Grand Prix 2022/23!
@Schachbund
@chessqueen
scored 7.5 points and won gold despite the loss in the last round, Koneru Humpy claimed silver with 7 points and Nana Dzagnidze clinched bronze.
Superbet Chess Classic Romania, the 1st event of the 2022
@GrandChessTour
series, opens tomorrow in Bucharest.
10 players participate in the event which will be played in 9 rounds, round robin system, with a total prize fund of 350.000$.
Detailed preview:
European Women’s Blitz Chess Championship 2023 has just concluded in Monte-Carlo, Monaco!
After 13 played rounds three players tied for the top scoring 10/13 points, each, and the tiebreak criteria determined the Winner!
Congratulations to the medalists:
🏆Alexandra Kosteniuk…
After five played rounds at
#ETCC2021
in Terme Catez, six teams of the Open section and the Russian Women’s team go to the resting day heading the crosstables.
Russia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Hungary, Armenia and Netherlands lead the Open event scoring 8 match points, each.
After the 3rd consecutive game of the
#CarlsenNepo
FIDE World Chess Championship Match ended in a draw yesterday, players today have the resting day.
The match continues tomorrow from 13:30 CEST. Recap of the first 3 games can be found here:
📸
@FIDE_chess
Congratulations to Matthias, Bluebaum (GER) European
#Chess
Champion 2022, Gabriel Sargissian (ARM) wins the silver medal and Ivan Saric (CRO) the bronze medal!
GM Alexey Sarana (FIDE) is European Chess Champion 2023! 🏆
Three players tied for the top scoring 8.5 points each & Tiebreaks criteria determined Alexey Sarana as the Winner of the event, GM Kirill Shevchenko (ROU) clinched silver and GM Daniel Dardha (BEL) won bronze medal. 👏
European Team Chess Championship 2021 has just concluded in Terme Catez, Slovenia with the awarding ceremony.
#ETCC2021
Congratulations to the European Team Chess Champions 2021:
🇺🇦 Ukraine 14 mp
🇫🇷 France 14 mp
🇵🇱 Poland 13 mp
Magnus Carlsen overtakes the leadership at
@NorwayChess
scoring 16.5 points with only two rounds to go!
Firouzja Alireza is on the 2nd place with 15.5, and Aronian Levon is 3rd scoring 13 points.
Today is the resting day and the 9th round starts tomorrow.
📸:
@LennartOotes
#ETCC2021
concluded on Sunday in
#Slovenia
. The best individual players of Open event are:
Board 1: 🥇Firouzja Alireza🇫🇷
Board 2:🥇Volokitin Andrei🇺🇦
Board 3:🥇Bjerre Jonas Buhl🇩🇰
Board 4:🥇Gledura Benjamin🇭🇺
Board 5:🥇Abasov Nijat🇦🇿
Congrats!👏
European Women’s
#Chess
Championship 2024 concluded in Rhodes, Greece!
#ewcc2024
IM Ulviyya Fataliyeva 🇦🇿 won the event scoring unbeaten 8.5/10 points, finishing a point ahead of eight players who tied for second place. IM Nataliya Buksa 🇺🇦 had the best tiebreaks to clinch…
Congratulations to Radjabov Teimour (AZE)- the Winner of
@FIDE_chess
World Cup 2019, and one of the qualifiers for the Candidates tournament.
Radjabov took the 6-4 victory over Ding Liren (CHN) in the final.
3rd place went to Vachier Maxime-Lagrave (FRA).
European Women Chess Championship 2022 concluded in Prague! Congratulations to the medalists:
🏆Monika Socko🇵🇱
🥈Gunay Mammadzada🇦🇿
🥉Ulviyya Fataliyeva🇦🇿
The Closing ceremony of the event will start at 20:00 CEST and will be streamed live:
FIDE President
@advorkovich
,
@FIDE_chess
CEO & ECU Vice President
@DanaReiznieceOz
, and ECU President Zurab Azmaiparashvili, made a first ceremonial moves on the first boards of both Open and Women’s European Team Chess Championships 2021 to open the
#ETCC2021
.
8-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan🏴 stunned the world with her phenomenal performance at the European Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship in
#Zagreb
,
#Croatia
!
In the last couple of days, her name appeared in Daily Mail, CNN News, BBC News, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times,…
Gibraltar Chess Festival 2020 opens tomorrow in Caleta Hotel and features Masters, Challengers & Amateurs events.
@GibraltarChess
Masters tournament gathered 239 players from 55 feds, among whom 211 titled players & the total prize fund crosses 170.000£!
We would like to express, our condolences on the loss of Carol Jarecki. Many of us knew her personally, and she was well-loved in the Chess World. She will be missed.
@FIDEAmericas
photo
@davidllada
ECU would like to thank Anish Giri for accepting our call and today played a simul against 15 Winners of
#EOCC2020
.
While playing,
@anishgiri
was commenting his games and answered players' questions LIVE, together with ECU President.
Final score is 11.5-3.5 (9wins,5draws &1loss)!
It’s done! Artemiev Vladislav hold a draw against Rodshtein and tie for the first place with Grandelius Nils!
The decision of the 1st place comes to tiebreaks!
15th World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand
@vishy64theking
wins the
@GrandChessTour
Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland with a round to spare!
@PZSzach
Scoring 14/18 points, Anand convincingly won the event which continues tomorrow with the Blitz stage.
European Chess Club Cup 6th round,
#ECCC2023
"The Game of Thrones" between the teams of Superchess and Offerspill Sjakklubb, both with perfect scores and the two former World Champions and Chess stars
@MagnusCarlsen
and
@vishy64theking
leading their teams!
In Women's…
Help us make
#Chess
in Schools better!
Chess in Schools is growing all over the Globe. To get an overview of statistics, methods and structure for CiS in different parts of the world,
@FIDE_chess
& ECU have created a project that includes a survey:
The 1st round of European Blitz Chess Championship 2021 has started in
#Katowice
!
The event is played in 11 double rounds, Swiss system, with time control 3 min+2 sec.
More than 550 players from 22 federations participate the event, fighting for a total prize fund of 11.000 EUR.
Congratulations to Hikaru Nakamura on winning the 1st leg of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix!
Hikaru Nakamura won both games of the Final tiebreak match against Levon Aronian to win the 1st FIDE Grand Prix event in 2022.
📸Official Photo FIDE GP Berlin Press Kit
Congratulations to Novy Bor Chess Club🇨🇿 on winning the European Chess Club Cup 2022! 🏆
Novy Bor defeated French team Asnieres Le Grand Echiquier in the last round to clinch gold with a perfect score 7/7 and impressive 14 match points!
At the sides of the
@FIDE_chess
Presidential Board Meeting in London, European Chess Union and the Turkish Chess Federation signed the contract for the European Women
#Chess
Championship 2019 to be held in Antalya, Turkey.
@TurkishChess
@GlkzTulay
@zukalazmai
Congratulations to Jan-Krzysztof Duda
@GM_JKDuda
on winning the 2nd leg of
@GrandChessTour
- Superbet Rapid &Blitz Poland 2022!
Levon Aronian
@LevAronian
and Viswanathan Anand
@vishy64theking
tied for the second place on the overall standings.
📸:L.Ootes
One of the most popular European
#Chess
Opens is underway in
#Reykjavik
, with 245 players from 39 countries. ECU Vice President & FIDE Managing Director
@DanaReiznieceOz
opens the 3rd round with the President of the Icelandic Chess Fed
@GunnarBjorns
The European Youth Chess Championship 2023 kicks off on Tuesday, 5th of September, in Mamaia, Romania. The event will be played in 6 age categories: U8, U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18 (open and girls sections separately), from 5-14 September, at the Ceremony Hall Dorna.
Each…
Alireza Firouzja wins his game against Mamedyarov Shakhriyar in a dramatic final round of
#ETCC2021
!
With today’s win
@AlirezaFirouzja
secured the medal for France and became the youngest chess player to cross 2800 rating!
Tiebreaks will decide whether France or Ukraine take gold
#Reykjavik
8th round. Young German star Vincent Keymer has joined the leaders after a fantastically resilient win against David Navara. Rauf Mamedov & Anton Demchenko drew means they still lead but they now share the lead with Keymer on 6.5 out of 8.
European Club Cup starts on 1st October in
#Durres
#Albania
and 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐂𝐔 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐛𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥.
110 teams (84 open, 26 women), 720 players, 150 GMs, more than 400 titled players, the strongest player in the World…
European Team Chess Championship 2021 opens tomorrow in Terme Catez, Slovenia.
#ETCC2021
70 teams (39 in Open and 31 in Women’s section) coming from 38 European federations will participate in the event.
Full preview can be found on the ECU Website: