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European Club Cup 2024

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European Club Cup 2024

The 39th European Club Cup and the 28th European Women’s Club Cup will be held from 19-27th October in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia.

The teams in the Open section will be composed of 6 players + 2 reserve players, and the Women’s section teams will feature 4 players + 1 reserve player.

The events will be played in 7 rounds, Swiss system, with the classical time control.

A total of 103 teams registered for the events, 84 teams will compete in the Open tournament, and 19 teams in the Women’s championship.

European Club Cup Champion from 2023, Offerspill Chess Club with Magnus Carlsen, is not coming back to defend the title.

The top seeded teams in the Open section are: Superchess (Average rating of players 2730), Alkaloid (elo 2706), Novy Bor Chess Club (elo 2691), Bayegan Pendik Chess Sports Club (elo 2683), and Turkish Airlines (elo 2682).

The rating favourites in the Women’s section are: Cercle d’Echecs de Monte-Carlo (elo 2489), Garuda Ajka BSK (elo 2459), TAJFUN SK Ljubljana (elo 2437) and Superchess (elo 2426).

Top rated players in the Open section are:
GM Erigaisi Arjun 2797 IND, GM Gukesh D 2794 IND, GM Abdusattorov Nodirbek 2783 UZB, GM Firouzja Alireza 2767 FRA, GM Wei Yi 2763 CHN, GM Praggnanandhaa R 2746, GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2733, GM Andreikin Dmitry 2729 FID, GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 2726 IND, GM Keymer Vincent 2721 GER, GM Maghsoodloo Parham 2719 IRI, GM Sarana Alexey 2717 SRB, GM Yu Yangyi 2717 CHN, GM Tabatabaei M. Amin 2702 IRI, GM Radjabov Teimour 2700 AZE etc

Top rated players in the Women’s section are:
GM Goryachkina Aleksandra 2533 FID, GM Dzagnidze Nana 2513 GEO, IM Divya Deshmukh 2501 IND, GM Zhu Jiner 2499 CHN, IM Assaubayeva Bibisara 2487 KAZ, GM Vaishali Rameshbabu 2487 IND, IM Khademalsharieh Sarasadat 2478 ESP, GM Batsiashvili Nino 2467 GEO etc

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