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Europe Echecs wins the European Corporate Chess Championship 2024

The 2024 European Corporate Chess Championship concluded in Asnieres sur Seine, Paris, France. The Closing ceremony of the event took place yesterday evening in the City venue of Asnieres sur Seine with the attendance of the Mayor of Asnieres Mr. Manuel Aeschlimann, Deputy Mayor of Asnieres Mr. Frederic Sitbon, ECU Secretary General Mr. Theodoros Tsorbatzoglou, Chairman of the ECU Social Commission Mr. Franck Droin, Vice President of the French Chess Federation Mrs. Laurie Delorme, Tournament Director Mr. Jean-Claude Moingt, and other representatives of the French Chess Federation.

After nine played rounds, Europe Echecs clinched gold with the score of 25 match points. After a loss in the third round, Europe Echecs scored six consecutive team victories to emerge as the sole Winner of the event.

Playing against Probit in the last round, the team Leonard took a narrow 2.5-1.5 victory for the final score of 24 match points which was enough for clear second place and silver medals.

PwC Poland and KPMG scored 22 match points each to tie for bronze and the tiebreak criteria (higher number of wins) determined the Winner. Since PwC Poland had 6 match victories and KPMG scored 5 match victories, the Polish team won bronze.

The best-ranked companies in Consulting, Industry, Sport Tourism, Finance, Energy and Digital company received special awards. The best-ranked Consulting company in the event was KPMG, the best-ranked Industry company was Agrofert, Chateau Montaiguillon was the best-ranked company of Sport Tourism, the best-ranked Finance company was Greco, the best Energy Company came Edvance, and the best-ranked Digital company was Google (more: World Chess Championship is sponsored by Google)

Final standings


Rk. Team Games + = TB1 TB2 TB3
1 EUROPE ECHECS 9 8 0 1 25 8 27
2 Leonard 9 7 1 1 24 7 22
3 PwC POLAND 9 6 1 2 22 6 21
4 KPMG 9 5 3 1 22 5 23
5 Agrofert 9 6 0 3 21 6 22.5
6 POST SWISS 9 5 2 2 21 5 22.5
7 TePe Sigeman 9 5 2 2 21 5 22
8 Château Montaiguillon 9 5 2 2 21 5 21
9 Volkswagen 1 9 5 2 2 21 5 20
10 GRECO 9 4 4 1 21 4 22.5
11 Région Ile-de-France 9 5 1 3 20 5 19.5
12 ATSCAF NORD 9 5 1 3 20 5 19
13 Edvance (Groupe EDF) 9 5 1 3 20 5 17
14 d-fine GmbH 9 4 3 2 20 4 21
15 DGAC 9 4 3 2 20 4 20.5
16 VW Financial Services 9 4 3 2 20 4 19
17 European Patent Office 2 8 4 1 3 20 4 14.5
18 Filmosaurus Rex 9 5 0 4 19 5 20
19 Société Générale 9 5 0 4 19 5 19
20 A L`ABRI 9 4 2 3 19 4 22
21 Google B 9 4 2 3 19 4 20.5
22 SNEF 1 9 3 4 2 19 3 21
23 PROBIT 9 4 1 4 18 4 20.5
24 Microsoft Europe 9 4 1 4 18 4 18.5
25 Les Pyramides de Port-Marly 9 3 3 3 18 3 19
Scibids Technology 9 3 3 3 18 3 19
27 UBS AG 9 3 3 3 18 3 18.5
28 KOZLODUY NPP 9 3 3 3 18 3 18
29 ASML 9 3 3 3 18 3 17.5
TALANX 9 3 3 3 18 3 17.5
31 Dassault Systèmes 3 9 3 3 3 18 3 16.5
SNEF 2 9 3 3 3 18 3 16.5
33 Kaïssa 9 2 5 2 18 2 17
34 EuropChess 1 9 3 2 4 17 3 18.5
35 Volkswagen 2 9 3 2 4 17 3 17
EBRD 9 3 2 4 17 3 17
DGAC – CRNA/N 9 3 2 4 17 3 17
38 European Patent Office 1 9 3 2 4 17 3 16.5
Dassault Systèmes 1 9 3 2 4 17 3 16.5
40 Thalès Ile-de-France 1 9 3 2 4 17 3 16
41 EL AL ISRAEL AIRLINES 9 3 2 4 17 3 15.5
42 Banque de France 2 9 2 4 3 17 2 17
43 QRT 1 9 3 1 5 16 3 16
44 CSE FORSEE POWER 9 3 1 5 16 3 15
45 Banque de France 1 9 2 3 4 16 2 19
46 Google A 9 2 3 4 16 2 17
47 MedienLB 9 2 3 4 16 2 15.5
48 Union Bancaire Privée 9 2 3 4 16 2 15
49 EuropChess 2 8 2 1 5 16 2 12
50 QRT 2 8 2 1 5 16 2 11.5
51 PwC FRANCE 8 1 2 5 15 1 11
52 Dassault Systèmes 2 9 2 1 6 14 2 15
53 Orchestra | The leisure platform 9 2 1 6 14 2 13.5
54 Les Siirène 9 1 2 6 13 1 13
55 Sodern 9 1 2 6 13 1 9.5
56 DALKIA 9 1 1 7 12 1 13
57 NEXTEP 4 0 2 2 6 0 5

Final round board parings European Corporate Chess Championship


Round 9 on 2024/11/23 at 10:00
Bo. 1 EUROPE ECHECS Rtg 2 Agrofert Rtg 3 : 1
1/1 GM Kamsky, Gata (w) 2630 GM Dimitrov, Radoslav (b) 2459 1 – 0
1/2 IM Razafindratsima, Timothe (b) 2340 GM Rusev, Krasimir (w) 2398 1 – 0
1/3 IM Stephan, Victor (w) 2306 FM Mitev, Valentin (b) 2180 0 – 1
1/4 Tulliez, Andre (b) 1976 Hristova, Ivelina (w) 1783 1 – 0
Bo. 11 KPMG Rtg 8 POST SWISS Rtg 2 : 2
2/1 GM Urkedal, Frode Olav Olsen (w) 2504 GM Dardha, Daniel (b) 2552 ½ – ½
2/2 CM Guttulsrud, Odd Martin (b) 2201 FM Ondozi, Murtez (w) 2374 0 – 1
2/3 WGM Khalafova, Narmin (w) 2166 FM Fejzullahu, Afrim (b) 2206 ½ – ½
2/4 Kyrkjebo, Hanna B. (b) 1899 Clausen, Martin (w) 1981 1 – 0
Bo. 3 Château Montaiguillon Rtg 7 GRECO Rtg 2 : 2
3/1 GM Lagarde, Maxime (w) 2585 GM Onyshchuk, Volodymyr (b) 2649 1 – 0
3/2 IM Kirk, Ezra (b) 2400 IM Grinev, Valeriy (w) 2315 0 – 1
3/3 WIM De Seroux, Camille (w) 2131 IM Maly, Alexey (b) 2222 0 – 1
3/4 Kirk, Eden (b) 1933 Kuftyrev, Pavlo (w) 1966 1 – 0
Bo. 4 TePe Sigeman Rtg 6 A L`ABRI Rtg 2 : 2
4/1 GM L’ami, Erwin (w) 2647 GM Moussard, Jules (b) 2600 1 – 0
4/2 GM Brynell, Stellan (b) 2338 IM Rakotomaharo, Fy Antenaina (w) 2394 0 – 1
4/3 Eklund, Joel (w) 2255 FM Youssoupov, Moissei (b) 2173 0 – 1
4/4 Sigeman, Johan (b) 1988 Groz, Emilie (w) 1904 1 – 0
Bo. 5 Leonard Rtg 9 PROBIT Rtg 2½:1½
5/1 GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime (w) 2754 GM Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios (b) 2550 ½ – ½
5/2 FM Moingt, Jean-Claude (b) 2119 WGM Zawadzka, Jolanta (w) 2236 0 – 1
5/3 WIM Moingt, Anne (w) 2007 FM Miroslaw, Michal (b) 2199 1 – 0
5/4 Belluire, Beatrice (b) 1893 Zdziarska-Zareba, Lidia (w) 1816 1 – 0
Bo. 16 Filmosaurus Rex Rtg 29 PwC POLAND Rtg 1½:2½
6/1 IM Levacic, Patrick (w) 2240 IM Barski, Radoslaw (b) 2241 0 – 1
6/2 Lafortune, Emerick (b) 2182 Galuszka, Tomasz (w) 2084 ½ – ½
6/3 Vajic, Hrvoje (w) 2061 Moscicka, Pola (b) 1895 0 – 1
6/4 Stankovic, Andrej (b) 1940 Lala, Szymon (w) 1470 1 – 0
Bo. 24 EuropChess 1 Rtg 10 d-fine GmbH Rtg 1 : 3
7/1 Demais, Traian (w) 2035 FM Klein, Felix (b) 2275 0 – 1
7/2 CM Wahlund, Max (b) 2019 Hellwig, Tobias (w) 2180 0 – 1
7/3 Keller, Christophe (w) 2002 Sundorf, Jannik (b) 2179 0 – 1
7/4 Bertram, Johannes (b) 1898 Sterin, Andrei (w) 0 1 – 0
Bo. 12 DGAC Rtg 20 SNEF 1 Rtg 2 : 2
8/1 IM Brochet, Philippe (w) 2401 GM Laurent-Paoli, Pierre (b) 2478 0 – 1
8/2 CM Decosse, Jean-Fabien (b) 2120 GM Girel, Joseph (w) 2397 0 – 1
8/3 CM Marie, Maxime (w) 2154 Ksstentini, David (b) 0 1 – 0
8/4 Lejeune, Gael (b) 1994 Boudediche, Chams (w) 0 1 – 0
Bo. 25 Société Générale Rtg 13 Volkswagen 1 Rtg 1½:2½
9/1 GM Dourerassou, Jonathan (w) 2485 IM Abel, Dennes (b) 2396 ½ – ½
9/2 FM Solakian-Van Eyll, Jerome (b) 2241 Schulze, Torben (w) 2349 0 – 1
9/3 Amar, Ludovic (w) 0 Collmann, Jan (b) 1998 1 – 0
9/4 Bassat, Jeremie (b) 0 Zehe, Marc-Kevin (w) 1924 0 – 1
Bo. 21 Banque de France 1 Rtg 22 Scibids Technology Rtg 2 : 2
10/1 CM Croizier, Valery (w) 2168 Hirth, Julien (b) 2067 1 – 0
10/2 Renault, Fabien (b) 2008 Lemonnier, Remi (w) 1998 0 – 1
10/3 Petit, Clement (w) 1939 Caloone, Thomas (b) 1975 0 – 1
10/4 Charbit, Florent (b) 1898 Auvray, Juliette (w) 1947 1 – 0
Bo. 26 ASML Rtg 14 Région Ile-de-France Rtg 1 : 3
11/1 Margarido, Jose Miguel Teixeira (w) 2046 GM Fressinet, Laurent (b) 2596 0 – 1
11/2 Coronel, Joshua (b) 1972 FM Dalaud, Dorian (w) 2249 0 – 1
11/3 Quintana Hernandez, Marcos Ivan (w) 1946 Destic, Elena (b) 1939 0 – 1
11/4 Weijers, Ralf (b) 1932 Coriat, Caroline (w) 1740 1 – 0
Bo. 15 VW Financial Services Rtg 27 KOZLODUY NPP Rtg 2½:1½
12/1 GM Lubbe, Nikolas (w) 2454 WFM Baninska, Tanja (b) 1998 1 – 0
12/2 Gabriel, Uwe (b) 1994 Ignatov, Georgi (w) 1983 0 – 1
12/3 Kessler, Marcel (w) 1994 Tsolov, Emil (b) 1942 ½ – ½
12/4 Hagemann, Sven (b) 1985 Stoev, Venko (w) 1832 1 – 0
Bo. 28 European Patent Office 1 Rtg 18 Google B Rtg 0 : 4
13/1 Debard, Michel (w) 1977 IM Reimanis, Ritvars (b) 2313 0 – 1
13/2 Liefrink, Feike (b) 1942 Adeyemi, Kola (w) 2084 0 – 1
13/3 Dekker, Derk (w) 1924 Kuhn, Patrick (b) 2006 0 – 1
13/4 Bonvalot, Isabelle (b) 1861 Virag, Csilla (w) 1967 0 – 1
Bo. 23 Banque de France 2 Rtg 30 ATSCAF NORD Rtg ½ :3½
14/1 Zerafa, Jonathan (w) 2077 FM Toulzac, Pierre-Yves (b) 2096 ½ – ½
14/2 Venard, Paul-Andre (b) 2063 Devecchi, Jorge (w) 1977 0 – 1
14/3 Stranjakovitch, Jean (w) 1999 Geujon, Jean-Charles (b) 1829 0 – 1
14/4 Amand, Nathalie (b) 1844 Nguyen, Gael (w) 1670 0 – 1
Bo. 42 DGAC – CRNA/N Rtg 19 Les Pyramides de Port-Marly Rtg 1 : 3
15/1 FM Mirimanian, Hayk (w) 2254 GM Guliyev, Namig (b) 2475 0 – 1
15/2 Toure, Vasanth (b) 2011 Stettler, Olivier (w) 1797 1 – 0
15/3 Martine, Gil (w) 0 Strand, Hakan (b) 1607 0 – 1
15/4 Cordonnier, Etienne (b) 0 Wyler, Luc (w) 1495 0 – 1
Bo. 17 Microsoft Europe Rtg 31 Dassault Systèmes 3 Rtg 3 : 1
16/1 FM Terekhov, Andrey (w) 2224 FM Belkaid, Sohan (b) 2389 1 – 0
16/2 Lempereur, Frederic (b) 2222 Ridel, Fabien (w) 2025 0 – 1
16/3 FM Fedorov, Evgenii (w) 2167 De Temmerman, Paul (b) 1746 1 – 0
16/4 Chaitan, Shet (b) 1792 Ferreira, Isaque (w) 0 1 – 0
Bo. 35 Thalès Ile-de-France 1 Rtg 47 UBS AG Rtg 1 : 3
17/1 Marty, Jean-Yves (w) 1949 Borowski, Piotr (b) 2126 0 – 1
17/2 Ibazizen, Abdelatif (b) 1933 WFM Farhat Willemstein, Stela Souza (w) 1827 1 – 0
17/3 Quemener, Yann (w) 1774 Graeff, Karl (b) 0 0 – 1
17/4 Delcambre, Morgan (b) 0 Kunchenko, Oleksandr (w) 0 0 – 1
Bo. 32 Kaïssa Rtg 36 EBRD Rtg 3 : 1
18/1 Coupet, Pascal (w) 2167 Dincer, Mehmet Alper (b) 1783 1 – 0
18/2 Bernard, Serge (b) 1995 Zlobin, Mikhail (w) 1766 1 – 0
18/3 Droin, Franck (w) 1909 Allan, David (b) 0 1 – 0
18/4 Tripodi, Carole (b) 0 Wasim, Ahmed (w) 0 0 – 1
Bo. 37 MedienLB Rtg 38 Edvance (Groupe EDF) Rtg 1½:2½
19/1 Schmied, Johannes (w) 2055 Champion, Philippe (b) 1979 ½ – ½
19/2 WFM Stangl, Anita (b) 1964 Timotic, Nicolas (w) 1915 0 – 1
19/3 Stangl, Robert (w) 1903 Peres, Olivier (b) 1199 1 – 0
19/4 Stangl, Michael (b) 0 Sarafidis, Christos (w) 0 0 – 1
Bo. 53 Union Bancaire Privée Rtg 33 Volkswagen 2 Rtg 1 : 3
20/1 Rasevic, Srdjan (w) 2126 Engelmann, Jakob (b) 2245 0 – 1
20/2 Aymon, Jerome (b) 0 Martin Lozano, Alvaro (w) 1947 0 – 1
20/3 Fornerod, Thomas (w) 0 Poelig, Juergen (b) 1877 1 – 0
20/4 Malzacher, Per (b) 0 Derkow, Sven (w) 0 0 – 1
Bo. 46 Dassault Systèmes 2 Rtg 45 Dassault Systèmes 1 Rtg 1½:2½
21/1 Tornare, Michel (w) 1933 Khallouf, Anas (b) 1853 0 – 1
21/2 Sarath, M Salim (b) 1728 Lorenzo, Alfredo (w) 1762 ½ – ½
21/3 Boyer, Jean-Francois (w) 1714 Leopardo, Julien (b) 1697 0 – 1
21/4 Bouix, Julien (b) 0 Sager, Cedric (w) 1476 1 – 0
Bo. 39 EL AL ISRAEL AIRLINES Rtg 34 SNEF 2 Rtg 2 : 2
22/1 Burstein, Almog (w) 1846 IM Degraeve, Remy (b) 2377 0 – 1
22/2 Breger, Baruch (b) 1839 FM Tomasi, Albert (w) 2286 0 – 1
22/3 Mdivani, Maka (w) 1824 Perfezou, Francois (b) 0 1 – 0
22/4 Birnboim, Eitan (b) 1776 Elhad, Youssouf (w) 0 1 – 0
Bo. 41 Google A Rtg 51 Orchestra | The leisure platform Rtg 3 : 1
23/1 Heather, James (w) 2000 Karagyozian, Edgar (b) 2306 0 – 1
23/2 Castro Ros, Alejandro (b) 1771 Calvie, Louis (w) 0 1 – 0
23/3 Yousefi, Hossein (w) 1700 Wei, Vincent (b) 0 1 – 0
23/4 Bulva, Maksim (b) 1629 Plas, Clement (w) 0 1 – 0
Bo. 52 European Patent Office 2 Rtg 40 TALANX Rtg 1½:2½
24/1 Alink, Maarten (w) 1782 Lossin, Sven-Hendrik (b) 2065 0 – 1
24/2 Lange, Ronny (b) 1742 Roth, Thorsten (w) 1959 0 – 1
24/3 Goulis, Panagiotis (w) 1498 Mertins, Volker (b) 0 1 – 0
24/4 Rosello-Garcia, Matthieu (b) 0 Akbari, Mahdi (w) 0 ½ – ½
Bo. 43 Les Siirène Rtg 44 QRT 1 Rtg 1 : 3
25/1 Larcheveque, Francois (w) 1954 FM Sohier, Julien (b) 2134 0 – 1
25/2 Wojtkowski, Frederic (b) 1912 Rubino, Adrien (w) 1905 1 – 0
25/3 Dreyer, Mathieu (w) 1691 Neufcourt, Leo (b) 0 0 – 1
25/4 Lambert, Romain (b) 0 Proto, Victor (w) 0 0 – 1
Bo. 54 Sodern Rtg 48 CSE FORSEE POWER Rtg 0 : 4
26/1 Goujon, Antoine (w) 1933 Le Marquer, Pierre (b) 1904 0 – 1
26/2 Pascal, Guillaume (b) 0 Benkaci, Samir (w) 1730 – – +
26/3 Ricome, Juliette (w) 0 Benkaci, Massin (b) 1668 – – +
26/4 Genestier, David (b) 0 Marmion, Simon (w) 0 – – +
Bo. 57 QRT 2 Rtg 55 DALKIA Rtg 0 : 4
27/1 Lovichi, Louis (w) 0 Nolot, Clementine (b) 1955 – – +
27/2 Tomarchio, Ferdinand (b) 0 Atrad, Amine (w) 0 0 – 1
27/3 Guennoun, Hamza (w) 0 Dino, Launy (b) 0 0 – 1
27/4 Ettachfini, Yassine (b) 0 Azzouzi, Mohamed (w) 0 – – +
Bo. 50 EuropChess 2 Rtg 56 PwC FRANCE Rtg 2½:1½
28/1 Vijups, Dans (w) 1862 Blanchard, Paul (b) 1834 ½ – ½
28/2 Hinkel, Kira (b) 1669 Goldet, Batiste (w) 0 0 – 1
28/3 Gatta, Bruno (w) 1617 Tukhvatullina, Kamila (b) 0 1 – 0
28/4 Kausa, Inese (b) 0 Boudonnet-Valerius, Nathalien (w) 0 1 – 0