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Serbia takes the sole lead at the European Team Chess Championship 2025

08 Oct, 2025by gprevenasΣκακιστικά νέα

The European Team Chess Championship 2025, that takes place in Batumi, Georgia, has a sole leader after four rounds. The defending champions from Serbia are now clear first with 4,0/4 victories. They managed to defeat the R3 co-leader Greece and are now in pole position at the ETCC.

They are followed by Ukraine, which remains undefeated with three matches won and one draw.

It is a tough tournament for the top seeds. The rating favorites Germany are having a difficult start. They lost their second match in the event and are now trailing with 2 wins and 2 loses at 16th position. Things look a bit better for the second seeded The Netherlands, as they are 4th with two wins and two draws – two match points behind the leader, but still undefeated. The third seeded Hungary are 14th with two matches won, one draw, and one loss.

The European Team Championship so far

All about ETCC 2025:European Team Chess Championship 2025 – information, schedule and participants / Participants open / Participants women / Live games open / Live games women


Round 1: ETCC 2025, team pairings round 1 / European Women Team Chess Championship 2025, round 1 board pairings / European Team Chess Championship 2025, round 1 board pairings
Round 2: ETCC 2025, team pairings round 2 / European Women Team Chess Championship 2025, round 2 board pairings / European Team Chess Championship 2025, round 2 board pairings
Round 3: ETCC 2025, team pairings round 3 / European Women Team Chess Championship 2025, round 3 board pairings / European Team Chess Championship 2025, round 3 board pairings
Round 4: ETCC 2025, team pairings round 4 / Serbia takes the sole lead at the European Team Chess Championship 2025

European Team Chess Championship results round 4


Round 4 on 2025/10/08 at 15:00
Bo. 10 Greece Rtg – 7 Serbia Rtg 1½:2½
1/1 GM Theodorou, Nikolas (w) 2652 – GM Predke, Alexandr (b) 2634 1 – 0
1/2 GM Kourkoulos-Arditis, Stamatis (b) 2583 – GM Sarana, Alexey (w) 2661 ½ – ½
1/3 GM Papaioannou, Ioannis (w) 2623 – GM Indjic, Aleksandar (b) 2618 0 – 1
1/4 GM Pavlidis, Antonios (b) 2579 – GM Ivic, Velimir (w) 2628 0 – 1
Bo. 4 Azerbaijan Rtg – 2 Netherlands Rtg 2 : 2
2/1 GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (w) 2742 – GM Giri, Anish (b) 2759 ½ – ½
2/2 GM Safarli, Eltaj (b) 2630 – GM Van Foreest, Jorden (w) 2697 ½ – ½
2/3 GM Suleymanli, Aydin (w) 2614 – GM Warmerdam, Max (b) 2582 ½ – ½
2/4 GM Muradli, Mahammad (b) 2584 – GM L’Ami, Erwin (w) 2615 ½ – ½
Bo. 9 Ukraine Rtg – 1 Germany Rtg 2½:1½
3/1 GM Ponomariov, Ruslan (w) 2633 – GM Keymer, Vincent (b) 2755 ½ – ½
3/2 GM Volokitin, Andrei (b) 2617 – GM Bluebaum, Matthias (w) 2687 1 – 0
3/3 GM Korobov, Anton (w) 2596 – GM Kollars, Dmitrij (b) 2642 ½ – ½
3/4 GM Samunenkov, Ihor (b) 2568 – GM Svane, Frederik (w) 2638 ½ – ½
Bo. 14 Czech Republic Rtg – 3 Hungary Rtg 2 : 2
4/1 GM Nguyen, Thai Dai Van (w) 2664 – GM Rapport, Richard (b) 2724 ½ – ½
4/2 GM Navara, David (b) 2656 – GM Leko, Peter (w) 2666 ½ – ½
4/3 IM Finek, Vaclav (w) 2518 – GM Sjugirov, Sanan (b) 2632 ½ – ½
4/4 IM Stalmach, Richard (b) 2410 – GM Gledura, Benjamin (w) 2643 ½ – ½
Bo. 18 Turkiye Rtg – 5 England Rtg 1½:2½
5/1 GM Gurel, Ediz (w) 2634 – GM Vitiugov, Nikita (b) 2654 ½ – ½
5/2 GM Yilmaz, Mustafa (b) 2591 – GM Adams, Michael (w) 2646 ½ – ½
5/3 GM Can, Emre (w) 2552 – GM McShane, Luke J (b) 2614 0 – 1
5/4 GM Sanal, Vahap (b) 2538 – GM Royal, Shreyas (w) 2501 ½ – ½
Bo. 6 Armenia Rtg – 15 Romania Rtg 2 : 2
6/1 GM Sargsyan, Shant (w) 2667 – GM Deac, Bogdan-Daniel (b) 2655 ½ – ½
6/2 GM Hovhannisyan, Robert (b) 2633 – GM Lupulescu, Constantin (w) 2577 ½ – ½
6/3 GM Martirosyan, Haik M. (w) 2626 – GM Gavrilescu, David (b) 2535 1 – 0
6/4 GM Hakobyan, Aram (b) 2624 – IM Magold, Filip (w) 2459 0 – 1
Bo. 20 Italy Rtg – 8 Spain Rtg 1½:2½
7/1 GM Moroni, Luca Jr (w) 2544 – GM Shirov, Alexei (b) 2636 ½ – ½
7/2 GM Vocaturo, Daniele (b) 2563 – GM Chigaev, Maksim (w) 2634 ½ – ½
7/3 GM Lodici, Lorenzo (w) 2560 – GM Anton Guijarro, David (b) 2631 0 – 1
7/4 GM Sonis, Francesco (b) 2561 – GM Santos Latasa, Jaime (w) 2609 ½ – ½
Bo. 11 France Rtg – 25 Sweden Rtg 2½:1½
8/1 GM Maurizzi, Marcandria (w) 2624 – GM Grandelius, Nils (b) 2645 ½ – ½
8/2 GM Laurent-Paoli, Pierre (b) 2570 – IM Seo, Jung Min (w) 2483 ½ – ½
8/3 GM Lagarde, Maxime (w) 2617 – GM Blomqvist, Erik (b) 2478 1 – 0
8/4 GM Boyer, Mahel (b) 2532 – IM Trost, Edvin (w) 2457 ½ – ½
Bo. 22 Bulgaria Rtg – 12 Slovenia Rtg 1½:2½
9/1 GM Naiditsch, Arkadij (w) 2587 – GM Fedoseev, Vladimir (b) 2720 0 – 1
9/2 GM Petrov, Martin (b) 2540 – GM Demchenko, Anton (w) 2628 ½ – ½
9/3 GM Petkov, Momchil (w) 2509 – GM Subelj, Jan (b) 2545 ½ – ½
9/4 GM Georgiev, Kiril (b) 2526 – IM Lavrencic, Matic (w) 2479 ½ – ½
Bo. 27 Montenegro Rtg – 13 Poland Rtg 2 : 2
10/1 GM Kadric, Denis (w) 2533 – GM Wojtaszek, Radoslaw (b) 2654 ½ – ½
10/2 GM Petrov, Nikita (b) 2576 – GM Gumularz, Szymon (w) 2592 ½ – ½
10/3 GM Draskovic, Luka (w) 2486 – GM Kosakowski, Jakub (b) 2550 1 – 0
10/4 GM Kosic, Dragan (b) 2351 – GM Malek, Jan (w) 2508 0 – 1
Bo. 30 Moldova Rtg – 16 Croatia Rtg 2 : 2
11/1 IM Lashkin, Jegor (w) 2497 – GM Saric, Ivan (b) 2661 ½ – ½
11/2 GM Schitco, Ivan (b) 2483 – GM Brkic, Ante (w) 2578 ½ – ½
11/3 IM Baltag, Iulian (w) 2394 – GM Livaic, Leon (b) 2551 ½ – ½
11/4 Gubin, Dmitrii (b) 2275 – GM Martinovic, Sasa (w) 2553 ½ – ½
Bo. 21 Denmark Rtg – 28 Switzerland Rtg 2 : 2
12/1 GM Thybo, Jesper Sondergaard (w) 2578 – GM Bogner, Sebastian (b) 2555 ½ – ½
12/2 GM Andersen, Mads (b) 2556 – GM Peng, Li Min (w) 2498 ½ – ½
12/3 IM Olsen, Filip Boe (w) 2451 – IM Kurmann, Oliver (b) 2409 ½ – ½
12/4 GM Ochsner, Bjorn Moller (b) 2461 – FM Fecker, Noah (w) 2364 ½ – ½
Bo. 26 Lithuania Rtg – 17 Austria Rtg 2½:1½
13/1 GM Kazakouski, Valery (w) 2581 – GM Alekseenko, Kirill (b) 2679 1 – 0
13/2 GM Stremavicius, Titas (b) 2531 – GM Dragnev, Valentin (w) 2539 ½ – ½
13/3 GM Pultinevicius, Paulius (w) 2532 – GM Ragger, Markus (b) 2567 ½ – ½
13/4 FM Morkunas, Gustas (b) 2324 – GM Blohberger, Felix (w) 2513 ½ – ½
Bo. 19 Israel Rtg – 29 Georgia 2 Rtg 2 : 2
14/1 GM Rodshtein, Maxim (w) 2647 – IM Petriashvili, Nikoloz (b) 2489 ½ – ½
14/2 GM Gorshtein, Ido (b) 2537 – IM Tutisani, Noe (w) 2424 ½ – ½
14/3 GM Sokolovsky, Yahli (w) 2539 – GM Quparadze, Giga (b) 2493 ½ – ½
14/4 GM Parkhov, Yair (b) 2503 – IM Akhvlediani, Irakli (w) 2436 ½ – ½
Bo. 31 Belgium Rtg – 23 Georgia 1 Rtg 1 : 3
15/1 GM Dardha, Daniel (w) 2605 – GM Kacharava, Nikolozi (b) 2486 0 – 1
15/2 IM Maerevoet, Sim (b) 2426 – GM Pantsulaia, Levan (w) 2457 0 – 1
15/3 GM Glek, Igor (w) 2432 – GM Jobava, Baadur (b) 2573 ½ – ½
15/4 FM De Waele, Warre (b) 2326 – GM Paichadze, Luka (w) 2502 ½ – ½
Bo. 24 Slovakia Rtg – 35 Georgia 3 Rtg 3 : 1
16/1 GM Pechac, Jergus (w) 2539 – FM Nemsadze, Daviti (b) 2348 1 – 0
16/2 IM Sahidi, Samir (b) 2490 – FM Qalichava, Akaki (w) 2333 ½ – ½
16/3 IM Haring, Filip (w) 2479 – FM Shamatava, Nikolozi (b) 2296 ½ – ½
16/4 IM Druska, Juraj (b) 2451 – FM Safarov, Deniel (w) 2280 1 – 0
Bo. 33 Iceland Rtg – 38 Georgia 4 Rtg 4 : 0
17/1 GM Stefansson, Vignir Vatnar (w) 2506 – IM Lortkipanidze, Nodar (b) 2371 1 – 0
17/2 GM Kjartansson, Gudmundur (b) 2422 – Makharadze, Jambul (w) 2291 1 – 0
17/3 IM Ragnarsson, Dagur (w) 2385 – Didmanidze, Tengiz (b) 1995 1 – 0
17/4 GM Stefansson, Hannes (b) 2408 – Diasamidze, Lulu (w) 1839 1 – 0
Bo. 37 Kosovo Rtg – 40 Ireland Rtg 3½: ½
18/1 IM Saraci, Nderim (w) 2445 – FM Nemeth, Zalan (b) 2212 1 – 0
18/2 FM Uruci, Endrit (b) 2347 – CM Melaugh, Shane (w) 2192 ½ – ½
18/3 CM Asllani, Muhamet (w) 2251 – CM Tureshbayev, Anuar (b) 2285 1 – 0
18/4 CM Saraci, Korab (b) 2197 – O`Gorman, Alice (w) 1960 1 – 0
Bo. 36 Faroe Islands Rtg – 32 Finland Rtg 1 : 3
19/1 IM Nielsen, Hogni Egilstoft (w) 2389 – IM Keinanen, Toivo (b) 2503 ½ – ½
19/2 FM Apol, Luitjen Akselsson (b) 2318 – IM Sipila, Vilka (w) 2487 0 – 1
19/3 FM Egilstoft, Rogvi (w) 2304 – IM Sklyarov, Dmitry V. (b) 2428 ½ – ½
19/4 FM Poulsen, Martin (b) 2276 – IM Sammalvuo, Tapani (w) 2376 0 – 1
Bo. 39 Scotland Rtg – 34 Portugal Rtg ½ :3½
20/1 FM Waldhausen Gordon, Frederick (w) 2389 – IM Sousa, Andre Ventura (b) 2433 ½ – ½
20/2 Grant, Jonathan I M (b) 2134 – FM Barria, Jose (w) 2376 0 – 1
20/3 Mitchell, Martin (w) 2117 – FM Martins, Bruno Andre Leite (b) 2363 0 – 1
20/4 Morrison, Chris (b) 2174 – IM Martins, David Pires Tavares (w) 2430 0 – 1





European Team Chess Championship standings after round 4


Rk. Team Games + = – TB1 TB2 TB3
1 Serbia 4 4 0 0 8 42.5 10
2 Ukraine 4 3 1 0 7 28 9.5
3 Greece 4 3 0 1 6 39 9.5
4 Netherlands 4 2 2 0 6 38.5 10
5 Azerbaijan 4 2 2 0 6 34 9.5
6 France 4 3 0 1 6 32 9
7 Spain 4 2 2 0 6 30 9.5
8 England 4 3 0 1 6 29 9.5
9 Slovenia 4 3 0 1 6 29 9.5
10 Romania 4 2 1 1 5 37 9.5
11 Czech Republic 4 1 3 0 5 32 9
12 Armenia 4 1 3 0 5 30 8.5
13 Montenegro 4 2 1 1 5 29 9
14 Hungary 4 2 1 1 5 28 10.5
15 Turkiye 4 1 2 1 4 35 9
16 Germany 4 2 0 2 4 34.5 9
17 Poland 4 1 2 1 4 31 8
18 Croatia 4 1 2 1 4 28.5 9
19 Denmark 4 1 2 1 4 27 8
20 Italy 4 2 0 2 4 25.5 9
21 Sweden 4 2 0 2 4 25 9.5
22 Switzerland 4 1 2 1 4 24 7.5
23 Georgia 1 4 2 0 2 4 22.5 7.5
24 Moldova 4 1 2 1 4 22 8.5
25 Bulgaria 4 2 0 2 4 19.5 7.5
26 Slovakia 4 2 0 2 4 17 8
27 Lithuania 4 2 0 2 4 15.5 8
28 Georgia 2 4 1 1 2 3 22.5 9
29 Israel 4 1 1 2 3 22.5 8.5
30 Iceland 4 1 1 2 3 18 9
31 Kosovo 4 1 1 2 3 18 7
32 Austria 4 1 0 3 2 22 7.5
33 Belgium 4 1 0 3 2 17 7.5
34 Finland 4 1 0 3 2 12 5.5
35 Portugal 4 1 0 3 2 11 6.5
36 Georgia 3 4 1 0 3 2 11 6
37 Ireland 4 1 0 3 2 3.5 3.5
38 Georgia 4 4 1 0 3 2 2 3.5
39 Faroe Islands 4 0 0 4 0 7 3.5
40 Scotland 4 0 0 4 0 4.5 2