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Basic data

12th European Team Chess Championship (see all-time tournament summary)
Date:	27th November - 8th December 1999
City:	Batumi, Georgia
Venue:	N/A
Tournament Director:	N/A
Chief Arbiter:	N/A
Teams participating:	36 (incl. Georgia "B")
Players participating:	175 (incl. 100 GMs, 50 IMs and 8 FMs)
Games played:	648
Competition format:	Four board nine round Swiss.
Final order decided by:	1. Game points; 2. Buchholz; 3. Match points
Time control:	probably 40 moves in 2 hours, then each next 20 moves in one hour
Official logo:
Downloadable game file:	99etch.zip

Tournament review

Individual medals

Best Rating Performance

no.	name	flag	code	ELOp
1.	GM Topalov, Veselin		BUL	2778
2.	GM Lékó, Péter		HUN	2774
3.	GM Krasenkow, Michał		POL	2773

1st Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	GM Shirov, Alexei		ESP	6	8	75.0
2.	GM Krasenkow, Michał		POL	6½	9	72.2
3.	GM Atalık, Suat		TUR	5½	8	68.8

2nd Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	GM Georgiev, Kiril		BUL	6½	9	72.2
2.	GM Polgár, Judit		HUN	6½	9	72.2
3.	GM Palac, Mladen		CRO	6½	9	72.2

3rd Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	GM Anastasian, Ashot		ARM	6½	9	72.2
2.	GM Miezis, Normunds		LAT	6½	9	72.2
3.	GM Yrjölä, Jouni		FIN	5	7	71.4

4th Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	GM Psakhis, Lev		ISR	5½	7	78.6
2.	GM Kempiński, Robert		POL	5	7	71.4
3.	IM Oral, Tomáš		CZE	5	7	71.4

1st Reserve Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	GM Reinderman, Dimitri		NED	6	8	75.0
2.	Erdoğan, Hakan		TUR	4½	6	75.0
3.	GM Chandler, Murray Graham		ENG	5	7	71.4

Interesting games