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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