European Rapid Chess Championship

15-16th December in Warsaw, Poland

European Rapid Chess Championship 2007 will take place December 15-16 in Warsaw, Poland. A total of 582 players will participate in the event as 41 of them are 2500+. The field is led by GM Vugar Gashimov. He comes acompanied by GM Guseinov and GM Guliyev. The Polish are bringing their best players for the championship - GM Bartosz Socko, GM Kamil Milton, GM Wojtaszek, GM Macieja, GM Bartel, etc. Hungary is bringing our good friend GM Csaba Balogh and Greece will be represented by GM Hristos Banikas and GM Mastrovasilis among others.

Here is a list of the top participants.

1 GM Gashimov, Vugar AZE
2 GM Socko, Bartosz POL
3 GM Moiseenko, Alexander UKR
4 GM Wojtaszek, Radoslaw POL
5 GM Mitoń, Kamil POL
6 GM Aleksandrov, Aleksej BLR
7 GM Guseinov, Gadir AZE
8 GM Bartel, Mateusz POL
9 GM Macieja, Bartlomiej POL
10 GM Kempinski, Robert POL
11 GM Sandipan, Chanda IND
12 GM Banikas, Hristos GRE
13 GM Kogan, Artur ISR
14 GM Ganguly, Surya Shekhar IND
15 GM Markowski, Tomasz POL
16 GM Jussupow, Artur GER
17 GM Savchenko, Boris RUS
18 GM Rozentalis, Eduardas LTU
19 GM Gajewski, Grzegorz POL
20 GM Drozdovskij, Yuri UKR
21 IM Flores, Diego ARG
22 GM Balogh, Csaba HUN
23 IM Vovk, Yuri UKR
24 GM Guliyev, Namig AZE
25 GM Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios GRE
26 GM Peralta, Fernando ARG
27 GM Mista, Aleksander POL
28 GM Felgaer, Ruben ARG
29 GM Dziuba, Marcin POL
30 IM Moranda, Wojciech POL
31 IM Steingrimsson, Hedinn ISL
32 GM Sumets, Andrey UKR
33 GM Sulskis, Sarunas LTU
34 GM Vysochin, Spartak UKR
35 GM Tukhaev, Adam UKR
36 GM Bindrich, Falko GER
37 IM Starostits, Ilmars LAT
38 GM Sergeev, Vladimir UKR
39 GM Zinchenko, Yaroslav UKR
40 IM Kiselev, Vitaliy RUS
41 GM Gdanski, Jacek POL
42 GM Zubarev, Alexander UKR
43 IM Kravtsiv, Martyn UKR
44 IM Warakomski, Tomasz POL
45 GM Barua, Dibyendu IND
46 IM Bromberger, Stefan GER
47 IM Lafuente, Pablo ARG
48 IM Urban, Klaudiusz POL
49 IM Szelag, Marcin POL
50 IM Vovk, Andrey UKR
51 WGM Socko, Monika POL
52 GM Akesson, Ralf SWE
53 GM Grabarczyk, Miroslaw POL
54 IM Jakubowski, Krzysztof POL
55 GM Zezulkin, Jurij BLR
56 IM Tomczak, Jacek POL

GM Csaba Balogh is the hidden favorite of the European Rapid Chess Championship

The strongest veteran of the field, GM Artur Jussupow

The Greek team against Italy at the ETCC
with GM Banikas and GM Mastrovasilis