WGM Andjelija Stojanovic from Serbia talks about her 8th round game with Lilit Galojan.

GM Arkadij Naiditsch speaks about the victory against Teimour Radjabov...

GM Matthieu Cornette, captain of the French women's team, has kindly agreed to an interview about the European Team Chess Championships.

The German top player Arkadij Naiditsch is having a great performance at the European Team Chess Championship, bringing his team to the first board in the final rounds, where the gold might be decided in the direct match against Armenia. After his victory against Radjabov, Naiditsch kindly agreed for an interview that you can view [...]

What are your impressions from ETCC 2011? I want to thank the organizers of the European Team Chess Championship. A fantastic event, in an excellent venue. I had the chance to talk to players and delegates I got a positive reaction from all. It is also important that during the event a number of important [...]

GM Christian Bauer speaks about his fantastic result at the European Team Chess Championships.

GM Alexander Beliavsky from Slovenia speaks about his performance in the European Team Chess Championships

In the final round of the ETCC Open Section Armenia exercised the well known strategy of neutralising opponent’s white pieces in the decisive match against the co-leading Germany. On boards one and three Levon Aronian and Vladimir Akopian quickly drew with Arkadij Naiditsch and Daniel Fridman, respectively. On the 2nd board German rising star Georg [...]

FM Hjorvar Steinn Gretarsson from Iceland has earned a GM-norm, which coming from the official ECU event counts as 20-game norm.

The closing ceremony of the top event of the year, the European Team Chess Championships, focused on prize giving to the winners of the competition.

Grandmasters Csaba Balogh and Zoltan Almasi from Hungary after winning the team bronze medal

Grandmaster Vugar Gashimov from Azerbaijan after winning the team silver medal.

European Team Chess Champions interviewed.

The Women’s World Chess Championship Match between the current World Champion Hou Yifan (China) and challenger Humpy Koneru (India) will be held from November 12 to 30, 2011.

Live games with analysis from the Women World Chess Championship