The European Individual Chess Championship is a

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tournament organised by the European Chess Union. It was established in 2000 and has since then taken place on a yearly basis. Apart from determining the European champions (open and women's), another objective of this tournament is to determine a number of players who qualify for the FIDE World Cup and the FIDE Women's World Cup (formerly the knockout Women's World Championship).

Mode of play

The European Individual Championship consists of two separate

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, an open event and a women's event, held at different times of the year and hosted in different cities. Both are

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s, with a varying number of rounds. Historically, the only exception to this was the first Women's Championship tournament in 2000, which was held as a knockout tournament. Apart from the first edition in 2000, where in case of a tie the Buchholz rating was used as a tie-breaker,

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play playoff matches are used to determine the medal winners as well as the world championship qualifiers.

Controversy

There have been a number of controversies associated with the tournament: * At most venues, participants and accompanying persons have been obliged to stay at the "official hotel", appointed by the local organizers. The room rates for participants, however, have been significantly higher than for other hotel guests. This in large part contributed to the founding of the ACP in 2003. Also the standard of the hotels as well as of the food has been a focus of complaints by players and journalists. * As the European Championships are part of the FIDE World Championship cycle, starting with the 2001 edition, the new, faster FIDE time control was used. This led to many complaints by the participants about increased stress, incessant time trouble and a steep deterioration of the quality of the games.

Results (open)

Due to the

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, the 2020 European Championship in Podčetrtek, Slovenia was postponed to 2022.

Results (women)

European Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship

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Mode of play

Controversy

Results (open)

Results (women)

European Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship

See also

Notes

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