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The European Individual Chess Championship starts in a week in Plovdiv. Close to 500 players will participate in one of the major competitions in Europe for 2008. In the men section there are 332 participants with GM Sergey Movsesian as a top seeded. In the women section GM Pia Cramling is leading the list of 165 players.
Russia is the most represented country with more than 70 players. The hosts from Bulgaria have 45 players, and third is Greece with 41 players.
Chessdom.com will not be official media partner of the event as our website has agreement with the Games festival that takes place during the same period. However, you may expect frequent updates as more than 20 contributors of Chessdom will be in Plovdiv and will send interesting info, photos, videos, and reports.
The opening ceremony of EICC Plovdiv 2008 will be this Sunday, April 20, at 17:00 CET. The championship will be opened by the Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Mr. Sergey Stanishev. Games will start the next day. Here is the full schedule
20.04 at 17.00 CET Opening ceremony
20.04 at 21.00 CET Technical Meeting
21.04 at 13.30 CET 1st round
22.04 at 13.30 CET 2nd round
23.04 at 13.30 CET 3rd round
24.04 at 13.30 CET 4th round
25.04 at 13.30 CET 5th round
26.04 at 13.30 CET 6th round
27.04 at 13.30 CET 7th round
28.04 CET rest day
29.04 at 13.30 CET 8th round
30.04 at 13.30 CET 9th round
01.05 at 13.30 CET 10th round
02.05 at 13.30 CET 11th round
02.05 at 23.00 CET Technical meeting for tie-breaks
03.05 at 09.00 CET Tie-breaks
03.05 at 20.00 CET Closing Ceremony
04.05 CET Departures
The prize fund is 140 000 EUR
Men: 100 000 EUR
Women: 40 000 EUR
Main Prizes
Rank / Men: 92 200 EUR
1 15 000
2 10 000
3 8 000
4 6 500
5 5 500
6 5 000
7 4 500
8 4 000
9 3 500
10 3 200
11 3 000
12 2 800
13 2 500
14 2 200
15 2 000
16 1 900
17 1 800
18 1 700
19 1 600
20 1 500
21 1 400
22 1 300
23 1 200
24 1 100
25 1 000
Rank / Women: 34 500 EUR
1 6 000
2 5 000
3 4 000
4 3 000
5 2 000
6 1 900
7 1 800
8 1 700
9 1 600
10 1 500
11 1 400
12 1 300
13 1 200
14 1 100
15 1 000
Special prizes (Performance minus Rating)
Rank / Men: 7 800 EUR
1 1 000
2 900
3 800
4 700
5 650
6 600
7 550
8 500
9 450
10 400
11 300
12 280
13 250
14 220
15 200
Rank / Women: 5 500 EUR
1 1 000
2 900
3 800
4 700
5 600
6 500
7 400
8 300
9 200
10 100
The championship will be 11 rounds, played in the Swiss system in accordance with the ECU Tournament Rules and FIDE Laws of Chess. The playing time will be 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from move one.
The order of players that finish with the same number of points shall be determined by application of the following tie-breaking procedures in sequence, proceeding from (a) to (b) to (c) to (d) to the extent required:
a) Median-Buchholz 1, the highest number wins;
b) Buchholz, the highest number wins;
c) Number of wins, the highest number wins;
d) Progressive Score, the highest number wins.
In the case of unplayed games for the calculation of (a) and (b) the current FIDE tournament rules shall be applied: „Independently of the result of an unplayed game (win by Bye, win or loss by forfeit, no game because the player has withdrawn or was absent for some round(s)) for reasons of tie-break the result shall be counted as a Draw against the player himself.“
In the European Individual Chess Championship and European Individual Women’s Chess Championship tie-breaks are organized only in the following cases:
a) to establish the Champion;
b) to establish the medal winners;
c) to establish qualifiers, for the World Chess Championship.
In the case of a) and b) the relevant tie-break matches will decide the final ranking and the money prizes connected with these places. In the case of c), the relevant tie-break matches will not influence the final ranking and the money prizes will be shared equally.
System of the Tie-break matches:
Additional matches of two games will be played with 15 minutes on the clock and addition of 10 seconds before each move. If this match is drawn again, then two games will be played with five minutes plus two seconds per move. If this match is again drawn, then the sudden-death game will be played with white having 5 minutes on the clock and black having 4 minutes, without any addition. White has to win the sudden-death game in order to win the match. In case that more than three tie-break rounds have to be played, the Chief-Arbiter – after confirmation by the ECU President or his representative – may change the playing schedule in such a way that the tie-break matches can be finished within one day.
The Individual Men’s European Championship 2008 and the Individual European Women`s Championship 2008 are qualification events for the next World Cup or the next World Championship for Women respectively. According to FIDE regulations and the decision of the ECU Board, 22 players from the men's section and 13 players from the women's section will qualify.
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