2013 European Individual Chess Championship

The European Individual Chess Championship 2013 was a chess 11-round Swiss-system tournament, played between 4 and 17 May 2013, in Legnica, Poland.http://www.fide.com/index.php?option=com_fidecalendar&view=fidecalendar&ny=2013 FIDE Calendar 2013 Ukrainian grandmaster Alexander Moiseenko won the gold medal after tie break. Format Players had 90 minutes for their first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an additional increment of 30 seconds per move from move one. The tie breaks were calculated as follows: Average Rating cut-1, the highest number wins; Buchholz cut-1, the highest number wins; Buchholz, the highest number wins; Number of wins, the highest number wins. The best 23 players qualified for the Chess World Cup 2013.http://en.eicc2013.pl/index.php/information/general-regulations European Individual Chess Championship: General Regulations 2013-04-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20130506045348/http://en.eicc2013.pl/index.php/information/general-regulations 2013-05-06 dead Participants The players were nominated by their respective national chess federations. The 10 highest ranked participants with their May 2013 rating (Continent Rank Europe position) were: Dmitry Jakovenko Russia, 2731 (15) Evgeny Tomashevsky Russia, 2719 (20) Maxime Vachier-Lagrave France, 2718 (21) Ian Nepomniachtchi Russia, 2710 (24) Alexander Areshchenko Ukraine, 2709 David Navara Czechoslovakia, 2706 Vladimir Akopian Armenia, 2704 Pavel Eljanov Ukraine, 2702 Ivan Cheparinov Bulgaria, 2700 (35) Alexander Moiseenko Ukraine, 2698 All of the above are grandmasters. Winners Ten players finished on 8/11 points to tie for first place. After applying tie-breaks, the following players were awarded the gold, silver and bronze medal positions; Alexander Moiseenko Ukraine Evgeny Alekseev Russia Evgeny Romanov Russia References External links XIV European Individual Chess Championship: Official site Chess-Results: European Individual Chess Championship 2013 European Championship Category:Chess in Poland Category:2013 in Polish sport Category:Legnica 2013