Cheparinov and Chigaev jump into medal positions at the European Individual 2024

Eight rounds have been played at the European Individual Chess Championship 2024 and there are only three rounds to go before the announcement of the new European Champion.

GM Aleksandar Indjic (SRB, 2623) remains in the sole lead of the event after today’s draw against the second-seeded player in the event GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac (ROU, 2687). Indjic opted for a very solid opening with whites, and the position quickly transformed into a drawish endgame.

Round 8 games: Aleksandar Indjic – Bogdan-Daniel Deac / Frederik Svane – Daniel Dardha / Manuel Petrosyan – Rauf MamedovIhor Samunenkov – Ivan Cheparinov / Daniele Vocaturo – Aram Hakobyan / Alexander Donchenko – Maksim Chigaev / Alexander Motylev – Robert Hovhannisyan / Kacper Piorun – Vladimir Fedoseev / Jorden Van Foreest – Evgeny Romanov / Mustafa Yilmaz – Ivan Saric / Szymon Gumularz – Shant Sargsyan / Valentin Dragnev – Etienne Bacrot Emre Can – Max Warmerdam / David Gavrilescu – Sanan Sjugirov / Misratdin Iskandarov – Daniil Yuffa

Playing on the fourth board, GM Ivan Cheparinov (BUL, 2632) defeated GM Ihor Samunenkov (UKR, 2523) with black pieces. Cheparinov gained a clear advantage from the early stage of the game and step by step improved his position to score the win in the end.

Playing with black pieces against GM Alexander Donchenko (GER, 2617), GM Maksim Chigaev (ESP, 2605) reached a very sharp position with a slight edge in his favour. Donchenko was forced to go for a march with the King through the center of the board, and Chigaev gained significant material advantage forcing his opponent on resignation.

Maksim Chigaev and Ivan Cheparinov now score 6.5 points, just half a point less than the leader – Aleksandar Indjic. As many as 19 players tie 4th-22nd place, while the event has just 20 qualification places for the next FIDE World Chess Cup!

The 9th round starts tomorrow at 15:00 CET and live games with video broadcast can be followed through the ECU TV page.

European Individual Chess Championship 2024 results round 8

Bo.		White	Rtg	Result		Black	Rtg
1	GM	Indjic, Aleksandar	2623	½ – ½	GM	Deac, Bogdan-Daniel	2687
2	GM	Svane, Frederik	2654	½ – ½	GM	Dardha, Daniel	2606
3	GM	Petrosyan, Manuel	2612	½ – ½	GM	Mamedov, Rauf	2651
4	GM	Samunenkov, Ihor	2523	0 – 1	GM	Cheparinov, Ivan	2632
5	GM	Vocaturo, Daniele	2597	½ – ½	GM	Hakobyan, Aram	2623
6	GM	Donchenko, Alexander	2617	0 – 1	GM	Chigaev, Maksim	2605
7	GM	Motylev, Alexander	2577	½ – ½	GM	Hovhannisyan, Robert	2613
8	GM	Piorun, Kacper	2580	½ – ½	GM	Fedoseev, Vladimir	2712
9	GM	Van Foreest, Jorden	2687	1 – 0	GM	Romanov, Evgeny	2584
10	GM	Yilmaz, Mustafa	2568	½ – ½	GM	Saric, Ivan	2668
11	GM	Gumularz, Szymon	2579	1 – 0	GM	Sargsyan, Shant	2655
12	GM	Dragnev, Valentin	2566	½ – ½	GM	Bacrot, Etienne	2653
13	GM	Can, Emre	2559	½ – ½	GM	Warmerdam, Max	2653
14	GM	Gavrilescu, David	2545	½ – ½	GM	Sjugirov, Sanan	2649
15	GM	Iskandarov, Misratdin	2506	0 – 1	GM	Yuffa, Daniil	2631
16	GM	Santos Latasa, Jaime	2630	1 – 0	IM	Kosakowski, Jakub	2516
17	GM	Ohanyan, Emin	2504	½ – ½	GM	Svane, Rasmus	2628
18	GM	Durarbayli, Vasif	2626	1 – 0	FM	Magold, Filip	2405
19	GM	Bartel, Mateusz	2613	1 – 0	IM	Defromont, Benjamin	2399
20	GM	Erdogmus, Yagiz Kaan	2604	1 – 0	WIM	Pogorelskikh, Sofia	2252
21	GM	Fernandez, Daniel Howard	2503	0 – 1	GM	Safarli, Eltaj	2596
22	IM	Akbas, Umut Ata	2466	1 – 0	GM	Jobava, Baadur	2587
23	GM	Maurizzi, Marc`andria	2585	1 – 0	FM	Kuru, Atilla	2371
24	IM	Boyer, Mahel	2506	0 – 1	GM	Navara, David	2674
25	GM	Vitiugov, Nikita	2668	1 – 0	IM	Seo, Jung Min	2505
26	IM	Maksimovic, Bojan	2504	½ – ½	GM	Bluebaum, Matthias	2654
27	GM	Predke, Alexandr	2652	½ – ½	GM	Djukic, Nikola	2499
28	GM	Pichot, Alan	2649	1 – 0	IM	Tarhan, Adar	2492
29	GM	Grandelius, Nils	2645	½ – ½	IM	Samadov, Read	2490
30	IM	Malek, Jan	2499	½ – ½	GM	Sargissian, Gabriel	2640
31	GM	Korobov, Anton	2636	1 – 0	IM	Babazada, Khazar	2459
32	GM	Suleymanli, Aydin	2632	½ – ½	GM	Gharibyan, Mamikon	2462
33	GM	Gokerkan, Cem Kaan	2490	½ – ½	GM	Theodorou, Nikolas	2612
34	IM	Rozen, Eytan	2482	½ – ½	GM	Lagarde, Maxime	2606
35	GM	Girel, Joseph	2486	½ – ½	GM	Lupulescu, Constantin	2591
36	GM	Petrov, Nikita	2590	½ – ½	IM	Levin, Guy	2445
37	GM	Laurent-Paoli, Pierre	2583	0 – 1	FM	Dotzer, Lukas	2418
38	IM	Deuer, Marius	2479	0 – 1	GM	Gazik, Viktor	2579
39	GM	Kourkoulos-Arditis, Stamatis	2575	1 – 0	GM	Sedlak, Nikola	2444
40	IM	Feuerstack, Aljoscha	2471	0 – 1	GM	Muradli, Mahammad	2575
41	FM	Camlar, Arda	2445	½ – ½	GM	Livaic, Leon	2557
42	IM	Patrelakis, Evaggelos	2437	0 – 1	GM	Socko, Bartosz	2554
43	GM	Godena, Michele	2419	0 – 1	GM	Petkov, Momchil	2549
44	IM	Tutisani, Noe	2411	½ – ½	GM	Quparadze, Giga	2533
45	FM	Talibov, Shiroghlan	2415	½ – ½	GM	Grigoriants, Sergey	2531
46	FM	Gasparyan, Erik R.	2371	1 – 0	GM	Stefansson, Vignir Vatnar	2530
47	GM	Gorshtein, Ido	2528	1 – 0	WGM	Beydullayeva, Govhar	2403
48	FM	Ermitsch, Magnus	2399	½ – ½	GM	Peng, Li Min	2516
49	GM	Sokolovsky, Yahli	2516	1 – 0	FM	Hulka, Valentyn	2259
50	CM	Lauda, Alexandr	2222	½ – ½	GM	Rasulov, Vugar	2511
51	GM	Bjerre, Jonas Buhl	2654	1 – 0	IM	Kilic, Eray	2442
52	GM	Ponomariov, Ruslan	2653	1 – 0	GM	Bryakin, Mikhail	2435
53	GM	Gretarsson, Helgi Ass	2441	0 – 1	GM	Kollars, Dmitrij	2641
54	GM	Ivanchuk, Vasyl	2640	1 – 0	IM	Saraci, Nderim	2439
55	IM	Druska, Juraj	2433	0 – 1	GM	Rodshtein, Maxim	2636
56	GM	Gurel, Ediz	2635	1 – 0	FM	Culum, Sanjin	2432
57	IM	Celik, Hasan Huseyin	2431	0 – 1	GM	Ivic, Velimir	2622
58	GM	Fressinet, Laurent	2605	½ – ½	IM	Kalogeris, Ioannis	2431
59	IM	Injac, Teodora	2429	1 – 0	GM	Pultinevicius, Paulius	2599
60	GM	Tomczak, Jacek	2593	1 – 0	IM	Aizenberg, Benny	2427
61	IM	Fus, Jakub	2417	½ – ½	GM	Fridman, Daniel	2581
62	GM	Moroni, Luca Jr	2571	1 – 0	IM	Tadic, Stefan	2422
63	GM	Vogel, Roven	2558	1 – 0	FM	Pasztor, Balazs	2419
64	IM	Zemach, Nadav	2414	0 – 1	GM	Asadli, Vugar	2554
65	GM	Parligras, Mircea-Emilian	2550	½ – ½	IM	Piliposyan, Robert	2418
66	GM	Paichadze, Luka	2546	½ – ½	IM	Koelle, Tobias	2414
67	GM	Ivanisevic, Ivan	2544	1 – 0	FM	Prokofiev, Valentyn	2411
68	IM	Ahmad, Khagan	2406	1 – 0	GM	Ahmadzada, Ahmad	2542
69	IM	Abdulov, Orkhan	2385	0 – 1	IM	Keinanen, Toivo	2541
70	IM	Bournel, Antoine	2403	0 – 1	GM	Blohberger, Felix	2536
71	GM	Neverov, Valeriy	2401	½ – ½	GM	Kacharava, Nikolozi	2525
72	IM	Lashkin, Jegor	2518	1 – 0	FM	Novosel, Lovro	2353
73	GM	Vetoshko, Volodymyr	2513	1 – 0	FM	Valiyev, Shahin	2260
74	GM	Dudin, Gleb	2510	1 – 0	IM	Gevorgyan, David Sh.	2247
75	IM	Vestby-Ellingsen, Mads	2368	1 – 0	IM	Kramer, Julian	2503
76	FM	Tudor, Henry Edward	2365	0 – 1	GM	Ioannidis, Evgenios	2497
77	IM	Maltsevskaya, Aleksandra	2364	0 – 1	IM	Zwirs, Nico	2480
78	FM	Bodrogi, Bendeguz	2358	½ – ½	IM	Kucuksari, Kaan	2473
79		Karaca, Yigit	2006	1 – 0	GM	Kjartansson, Gudmundur	2470
80	IM	Ilinca, Felix-Antonio	2470	0 – 1	CM	Safar, Sandro	2242
81		Onem, Cem	1825	0 – 1	IM	Stoyanov, Tsvetan	2465
82	IM	Wadsworth, Matthew J	2461	½ – ½	FM	Olcum, Ahmet	2180
83	FM	Kalavannan, Koby	2225	0 – 1	GM	Kadric, Denis	2562
84	GM	Nasuta, Grzegorz	2543	1 – 0	IM	Kanyamarala, Tarun	2371
85	GM	Sebenik, Matej	2524	1 – 0	FM	Citak, Selim	2366
86	IM	Alexakis, Dimitris	2520	1 – 0	FM	Nemsadze, Daviti	2366
87	FM	Goroshkov, Maksym	2368	½ – ½	GM	Brunello, Sabino	2518
88	GM	Sivuk, Vitaly	2502	1 – 0	IM	Damjanovic, Vuk	2364
89	GM	Gines Esteo, Pedro Antonio	2492	1 – 0	IM	Pastar, Slaven	2361
90	FM	Lavrencic, Matic	2366	1 – 0	GM	Stefansson, Hannes	2485
91	IM	Yurtseven, Melih	2348	0 – 1	IM	Olsen, Filip Boe	2470
92	GM	Zanan, Evgeny	2463	½ – ½	FM	Dalaud, Dorian	2348
93	IM	Willow, Jonah B	2454	1 – 0	FM	Brzezina, Piotr	2307
94	FM	Yordanov, Lachezar	2332	½ – ½	IM	Fromm, Marius	2452
95	IM	Radovanovic, Nikola	2443	½ – ½	FM	Yeritsyan, Hayk	2276
96	GM	Sanikidze, Tornike	2437	1 – 0	IM	Manea, Alexandru	2273
97	FM	Hovakimyan, Vache	2319	0 – 1	IM	Garcia Ramos, Daniel	2437
98	WIM	Aydin, Gulenay	2271	½ – ½	IM	Peyrer, Konstantin	2437
99	FM	Fishchuk, Vladyslav	2270	0 – 1	IM	Juhasz, Agoston	2432
100	FM	Dubnevych, Maksym	2264	0 – 1	IM	Manafov, Vugar	2430
101	IM	Licznerski, Lukasz	2422	1 – 0	WIM	Kubicka, Anna	2235
102	FM	Gal, Andrej	2255	1 – 0	GM	Yankelevich, Lev	2417
103	CM	Rychagov, Nikita	2217	1 – 0	IM	Sieciechowicz, Marcin	2416
104	IM	Shohat, Yotam	2412	½ – ½	WIM	Srdanovic, Jovana	2200
105	IM	Agdelen, Huseyin Can	2407	½ – ½	CM	Aslanov, Umid	2222
106	FM	Djokic, Mihailo	2204	0 – 1	GM	Socko, Monika	2403
107	FM	Barria Santos, Jose Guilherme	2398	½ – ½	WIM	Hryzlova, Sofiia	2177
108	CM	Marie, Maxime	2154	0 – 1	IM	Kalezic, Blazo	2394
109	IM	Mikac, Matjaz	2392	½ – ½	FM	Stanojevic, Ilija	2197
110		Goroshchenko, Dmitry	2141	0 – 1	IM	Ozenir, Ekin Baris	2392
111	FM	Krallis, Christos	2390	0 – 1	WFM	Kochavi, Dana	2166
112		Brzezina, Pawel	2064	½ – ½	IM	Niedbala, Bartlomiej	2389
113	IM	Baltag, Iulian	2383	1 – 0		Guleryuz, Kuzey	2158
114		Tsanatsqenishvili, Alexandre	1987	1 – 0	WGM	Sliwicka, Alicja	2380
115	GM	Subelj, Jan	2535	1 – 0	CM	Noy, Eyal	2226
116	IM	Schneider, Ilja	2451	½ – ½		Nalbandyan, Vahan	2223
117	IM	Petrovskyi, Vadym	2433	1 – 0	FM	Bartel, Michal	2222
118	FM	Yaniv, Yuval	2421	1 – 0		Lever, Erwan	2221
119	IM	Travadon, Loic	2419	½ – ½		Kawulok, Marek	2219
120	CM	Deveci, Huseyin Said	2211	0 – 1	IM	Vanczak, Tamas	2413
121	CM	Garsky, Vladyslav	2200	½ – ½	FM	Agasarov, Benik	2410
122	IM	Domalchuk-Jonasson, Aleksandr	2399	0 – 1	WFM	Shvedova, Alexandra	2206
123	CM	Saraci, Korab	2193	½ – ½	IM	Decuigniere, Tom	2385
124	FM	Djurovic, Peko	2198	1 – 0	IM	Wallace, John Paul	2368
125	GM	Golubka, Petro	2365	0 – 1		Gov, Guy	2200
126	CM	Prisacaru, Stefan-Emilian	2197	½ – ½	FM	Ljepic, Andrej	2365
127	FM	Lundin, Jan	2175	0 – 1	IM	Kochavi, Ori	2363
128	FM	Akhvlediani, Irakli	2363	1 – 0	FM	Yilmaz, Baver	2196
129	FM	Yarar, Bora	2361	0 – 1		Caruso, Augusto	2193
130	FM	Pipiras, Filipa Fortuna	2166	½ – ½	FM	Derakhshani, Borna	2355
131		Tamas, Christian-Arrydan	2166	½ – ½	IM	Filip, Lucian-Ioan	2341
132	FM	Szwed, Jacek	2341	1 – 0		Abdulkarimli, Eljan	2190
133	FM	Sherman, Raem	2340	1 – 0		Markovic, Franjo-Josip	2181
134	IM	Fruebing, Stefan	2336	½ – ½	WIM	Allahverdiyeva, Ayan	2174
135		Asllani, Muhamet	2157	0 – 1	FM	Gombocz, Ferenc Jr.	2333
136	FM	Fiedorek, Michal	2295	1 – 0		Sitbon, Itay	2170
137		Doraszelski, Alexander	2156	1 – 0	FM	Leszko, Bence	2292
138		Stoinev, Metodi	2138	½ – ½	FM	Unat, Can Haktan	2290
139	IM	Lekic, Dusan	2288	0 – 1	FM	Ergazakis, Ioannis	2150
140	FM	Filip, Andrei	2283	1 – 0		Yalcinkaya, Efe	2117
141		Guretchii, Kirill	2058	0 – 1	FM	Perossa, Nicolas	2277
142	FM	Mouhamad, Joachim	2273	½ – ½		Odabasi, Ruzgar	2114
143		Alexakis, Dimitrios	1943	0 – 1	FM	Zherebtsova, Alexandra	2268
144		Giacomini, Hector	2095	0 – 1	FM	Petrovic, Aleksa	2262
145	FM	Hamidov, Allahverdi	2247	½ – ½	WFM	Szente Varga, Fruzsina	2059
146		Nadanyan, Kiti	1725	0 – 1		Sapocinic, Semion	2247
147	FM	Pegno, Mattia	2245	1 – 0		Qorri, Fatmir	1993
148	FM	Hollan, Martin	2347	1 – 0		Antonyan, Hamlet	2056
149	FM	Sukovic, Andrej	2299	½ – ½	WIM	Kanyamarala, Trisha	2171
150		Ceyhan, Mert	2114	1 – 0	IM	Vujosevic, Vladimir	2285
151	IM	Bodiroga, Predrag	2260	0 – 1	CM	Arakelyan, Manvel	2140
152	WFM	Bashylina, Luisa	2105	0 – 1	FM	Vasynda, Oleksandr	2257
153		Pousada Garcia, Victor Daniel	2053	0 – 1		Pycinski, Wladyslaw	2230
154	FM	Durucay, Uygar	2226	0 – 1		Dumbelovic, Novak	2123
155	FM	Biliskov, Vjekoslav	2225	0 – 1	FM	Coursaget, Nicolas	2101
156	FM	Berin, Artem	2224	½ – ½	FM	Rama, Lorenc	2086
157		Eryigit, Yakup	2025	½ – ½	WIM	Orian, Noga	2221
158		Pirvulescu, Adrian	1929	½ – ½		Scekic, Veljko	2199
159	WGM	Rudzinska, Michalina	2192	½ – ½		Gur, Ali	2086
160	CM	Gusev, Mikhail	2186	1 – 0		Stoychev, Ognian	2071
161	CM	Yonal, Timur	2184	0 – 1		Maghakyan, Hayk	1958
162		Parligras, Cosmin	2182	1 – 0		Kyparissopoulos, Spyridon	1946
163		Ramaj, Ergit	2180	0 – 1		Uysal, Kerem	1884
164	WCM	Akat, Elifnaz	2020	½ – ½	CM	Mizzi, Jack	2214
165		Starcevic, Ante Leon	2200	1 – 0		Iordache, Alexia-Andreea	2018
166		Pehar, Borna	2010	0 – 1		Horvat, Damjan	2135
167	FM	Voiteanu, Gabriel	2132	1 – 0		Tunge, Christian	2015
168		Metin, Enis	2005	0 – 1		Sakmak, Kutay	2104
169		Basdar, Atakan	1962	1 – 0	FM	Bognar, Csaba Dr.	2101
170	IM	Smolin, Sergey	1988	1 – 0		Baghirov, Orkhan	2097
171	WFM	Pirvulescu, Ekaterina	2086	½ – ½		Volcov, Igor	1954
172		Soldo, Dario	1949	0 – 1	WFM	Blanquet, Camille	2079
173	FM	Zymberi, Astrit	2070	1 – 0		Labrovic, Jakov	1931
174		Shlaen, Rem	1947	½ – ½		Modric, Milos	2066
175		Mandalinic, David	2058	1 – 0		Valitov, Ilshat	1908
176		Pantovic, Dragan M	2056	½ – ½		Khachatryan, Gagik B.	1858
177		Zivkovic, Slaven	1919	0 – 1		Yekeler, Kerem Sarp	2048
178		Kayan, Veli	1845	1 – 0	WFM	Koljevic, Nikolina	2051
179		Barbir, Petar	1902	0 – 1		Celenkovic, Bojan	2125
180		Milovic, Ilija	1891	0 – 1	FM	Minic, Milan	2052
181		Marchadour, Emilie	2034	1 – 0		Matei, Stefan-Razvan	1807
182		Stefan, Iulia-Cristiana	1964	1 – 0		Lakusic, Zoran	1749
183		Willim, Michael	2102	1 – 0		Milosevic, Vuk	1702
184		Balent, Sara	1662	½ – ½		Petrovic, Slavko	1919
185		Camas, Mustafa Arda	0	0 – 1		Franco, Alessandro P.	1893
186		Spanos, Nomikos	1882	1 – 0		Vukasovic, Vlado	0
187		Mitrovic, Danilo	0	0 – 1		De Winter, Roman	1778
188	IM	Zhou, Yang-Fan *)	2418	0 – 1	GM	Kovalev, Vladislav	2539
189		Henn, Jonathan	1534	0 – 1		Vukazic, Zlatko	0
190	GM	Martirosyan, Haik M.	2676	0		not paired
191	GM	Demchenko, Anton	2615	0		not paired
192	GM	Sanal, Vahap	2561	0		not paired
193	IM	Ozsakallioglu, Okan	2360	0		not paired
194	GM	Nikcevic, Nebojsa	2354	0		not paired
195	FM	Vagman, Roy	2322	0		not paired
196	GM	Drazic, Sinisa	2255	0		not paired
197		Todorov, Todor Spirov	2185	0		not paired
198		Lorenz, Roger	2184	0		not paired
199	CM	Lymar, Vladislav	2182	0		not paired