| 17th Chess Mitropa Cup: Montecatini Terme 1997 |
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| 17th Chess Mitropa Cup (see all-time tournament summary) |
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| Date: | 8th - 16th November |
| City: | Montecatini Terme, Italy |
| Venue: | Centro Congressi |
| Tournament Director: | IA Gertude Wagner (AUT) |
| Chief Arbiter: | IA Franca Dapiran (ITA) |
| Teams participating: | 10 |
| Players participating: | 46 (incl. 5 GMs, 21 IMs, 6 FMs and 2 WIMs) |
| Games played: | 180 |
| Competition format: | Four board round robin. |
| Final order decided by: | 1. Game points; 2. Match points |
| Time control: | N/A |
| Website: | http://schach.wienerzeitung.at/Default.aspx?id=483 |
| Downloadable game file: | 97mitropa.zip |
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The traditional Mitropa Cup took place on Montecatini resort, Tuscany. Hungary showed up with highest Elo (2491) but ultimatley came only in tied third being left by teams of Slovenia and Croatia. Most of the teams coprised of young players with some routined ones among them. Austria fielded U26 team and came only 9th. Christian White missed his IM norm by just half of a point. Slovenia won beating runners-up Croatia 3-1 on the last day. |
| bd | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Palac, Mladen | |
CRO | 5½ | 9 | 61.1 |
| 2. | IM Pavasovič, Duško | |
SLO | 6 | 9 | 66.7 |
| 3. | FM Bellini, Fabio | |
ITA | 6½ | 9 | 72.2 |
| 4. | IM Tratar, Marko | |
SLO | 7½ | 9 | 83.3 |