The 2023 IBCA European Team Championship for the Blind and Visually Impaired took place in Genova, Italy, on April 19-30, 2023. The competition was organized by the IBCA and the Italian Amateur Blind Chess Association (A.S.C.I.d.).
The 14 national teams represented Braille federations from all parts of Europe. Players used specialised Braille chess boards, talking clocks, and voice recording equipment. Team titles, medals, and board prizes were contested. The final results are: Champion – Team Serbia (FM Pavle Dimic, CM Damjan Jandric, Stefan Janjic, Mile Bjelanovic, FM Avram Sretko, Stefan Mitrovic; captain Nikola Ivanovic) – 15 match points, 25.5 game points; Silver medal – Team Poland (GM Marcin Tazbir, IM Jacek Stachanczyk, IM Piotr Dukaczewski. Ryszard Suder, Michal Wolanski, Andrzej Migala; captain Janocz Zyla) ) – 14 match points, 23.5 game points; Bronze medal – Team Ukraine (Vladyslav Kolpakov, Igor Shepelev, WIM Lubov Zsiltzova-Lisenko, Ivan Yatsishin; captain Oleksandr Frantsuzov) – 13 match points, 23 game points.
Final Ranking after 9 Rounds | |||||||||
Rk. | SNo | Team | Games | + | = | – | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 |
1 | 2 | Serbia | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 26 | 0 |
2 | 1 | Poland | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 24 | 0 |
3 | 3 | Ukraine | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 23 | 0 |
4 | 5 | Spain | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 21 | 0 |
5 | 4 | Germany | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 20 | 0 |
6 | 7 | Bulgaria | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 19 | 0 |
7 | 13 | Israel | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 18 | 0 |
8 | 9 | Slovenia | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 17 | 0 |
9 | 6 | Romania | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 0 |
10 | 11 | Italy | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 0 |
11 | 12 | France | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 0 |
12 | 8 | Macedonia | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 0 |
13 | 14 | Croatia | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 0 |
14 | 10 | Kosovo | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 7.5 | 0 |
