European Hybrid Swiss tiebreak took place yesterday as a 9 rounds Swiss tournament, deciding the distribution of 32.000 EUR prize pool.
36 qualifiers for the FIDE World Cup 2021 participated the Finals. After 9 played rounds, two players tied for the top scoring 6.5 points each: Vladislav Artemiev (RUS, 2709) and Aleksandar Indjic (SRB, 2607).
Additional tiebreak criteria decided that European Chess Champion 2019 – Vladislav Artemiev – takes the 1st prize, while Indjic came second.
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Vladislav Artemiev
Photo by: Vladimir BarskyAleksandar Indjic
Pavel Ponkratov (RUS, 2624) earned the third prize as he had better additional criteria than Haik Martirosyan (ARM, 2637). Both players scored 6 points to tie for the third place.
Pavel Ponkratov Haik Martirosyan
Final standings:
Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | |
1 | GM | Artemiev Vladislav | RUS | 2709 | 6.5 |
2 | GM | Indjic Aleksandar | SRB | 2607 | 6.5 |
3 | GM | Ponkratov Pavel | RUS | 2624 | 6 |
4 | GM | Martirosyan Haik M. | ARM | 2637 | 6 |
5 | GM | Esipenko Andrey | RUS | 2701 | 5.5 |
6 | GM | Matlakov Maxim | RUS | 2688 | 5.5 |
7 | GM | Fedoseev Vladimir | RUS | 2687 | 5.5 |
8 | GM | Tomashevsky Evgeny | RUS | 2706 | 5.5 |
9 | GM | Kozak Adam | HUN | 2518 | 5.5 |
10 | GM | Jobava Baadur | GEO | 2603 | 5 |
11 | GM | Alekseev Evgeny | RUS | 2617 | 5 |
12 | GM | Deac Bogdan-Daniel | ROU | 2627 | 5 |
13 | GM | Nguyen Thai Dai Van | CZE | 2577 | 5 |
14 | GM | Sargsyan Shant | ARM | 2618 | 5 |
15 | GM | Oparin Grigoriy | RUS | 2652 | 5 |
16 | GM | Predke Alexandr | RUS | 2690 | 5 |
17 | GM | Motylev Alexander | RUS | 2641 | 5 |
18 | GM | Brkic Ante | CRO | 2592 | 5 |
19 | GM | Sjugirov Sanan | RUS | 2663 | 4.5 |
20 | GM | Ivanisevic Ivan | SRB | 2606 | 4.5 |
21 | GM | Svane Rasmus | GER | 2615 | 4.5 |
22 | GM | Zvjaginsev Vadim | RUS | 2614 | 4.5 |
GM | Savchenko Boris | RUS | 2538 | 4.5 | |
24 | GM | Gabuzyan Hovhannes | ARM | 2590 | 4 |
25 | GM | Yilmaz Mustafa | TUR | 2630 | 3.5 |
26 | GM | Lupulescu Constantin | ROU | 2656 | 3.5 |
27 | IM | Teclaf Pawel | POL | 2502 | 3.5 |
28 | GM | Cheparinov Ivan | BUL | 2667 | 3.5 |
29 | GM | Krasenkow Michal | POL | 2597 | 3.5 |
30 | GM | Can Emre | TUR | 2569 | 3.5 |
31 | GM | Anton Guijarro David | ESP | 2673 | 3.5 |
32 | GM | Martinovic Sasa | CRO | 2548 | 3.5 |
33 | GM | Laznicka Viktor | CZE | 2647 | 2.5 |
34 | GM | Afanasiev Nikita | RUS | 2522 | 2.5 |
35 | GM | Braun Arik | GER | 2609 | 2.5 |
36 | GM | Paichadze Luka | GEO | 2565 | 2.5 |
In accordance with the ECU Board decision made in February, ECU announced names of 10 additional qualifiers for the FIDE World Cup 2021.
During the final day of the Hybrid Qualification Tournament, ECU Live studio with WGM Keti Tsatsalashvili and GM Marcin Tazbir hosted special guests.
Reelected President of the Icelandic Chess Federation and ECU Deputy President Mr. Gunnar Bjornsson joined the studio and spoke about the details and preparations for the upcoming European Chess Championship 2021 in Reykjavik. The invitation will be published this week.

Shortly after, FIDE General Director Mr. Emil Sutovsky joined the live studio of the European Hybrid Qualification ChessTournament giving valuable information for the World Cup qualifiers.

European Qualification Tournament is over and European Chess Union is thankful to the Arbiters team led by Takis Nikolopoulos.
“Besides the central Panel Arbiters and ECU Arbiter Council , who actively participated in the preparations, a total of 82 Arbiters achieved a special condition event with 0 Appeals and no cheating case to be reported. We would like to sincerely thank the Arbiters team, Tornelo Team, the Broadcasting team and ECU officers and National Chess Federations who supported daily the competition.
A total team of 100 persons made the European Hybrid Qualification Tournament possible.”

European Hybrid Qualification Tournament details:
European Hybrid Qualification Chess Tournament 2021 – information and participants / European Hybrid Qualification Chess Tournament 2021 – pairings / European Hybrid Qualification Chess Tournament – Photo gallery of the venues / 36 European players qualified for FIDE World Chess Cup 2021 / Fair play at its best #TweetOftheDay / European Hybrid Qualification Tournament with Over-the-Board games /
