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Basic data

20th European Chess Club Cup (see all-time tournament summary)
Date:	3rd - 9th October 2004
City:	Izmir-Çeşme, Turkey
Venue:	Hotel Altin Yunus Cesme
Tournament Director:	N/A
Chief Arbiter:	IA Dirk de Ridder (BEL)
Teams participating:	36 from 22 countries (incl. 2 teams from Kosovo)
Players participating:	264 (incl. 86 GMs, 41 IMs, 1 WGM and 33 FMs)
Games played:	756
Competition format:	Four board round robin.
Final order decided by:	1. Match points; 2. Game points; 3. Buchholz
Time control:	N/A
Website:	http://www.tsf.org.tr/ecup2004/ecupmain.htm (cached)
Other websites:	ChessBase report
Official poster:
Downloadable game file:	04ecc.zip

Tournament review

Best board results

1st Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar		ECZI	6	7	85.7
2.	GM Naiditsch, Arkadij		MNRE	6	7	85.7
3.	GM Glek, Igor		ROEK	6	7	85.7

2nd Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	GM Grischuk, Alexander		NAOP	5	6	83.3
2.	GM Short, Nigel David		BOSN	5½	7	78.6
3.	IM Zhigalko, Andrei		VMNS	5	7	71.4

3rd Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	GM Timofeev, Artiom		LKZN	5½	7	78.6
2.	GM Sakaev, Konstantin		USVD	4½	6	75.0
3.	GM Sokolov, Ivan		BOSN	5	7	71.4

4th Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	GM Bologan, Viorel		BOSN	6	7	85.7
2.	GM Inarkiev, Ernesto		TMSK	6	7	85.7
3.	GM Kempiński, Robert		POLW	4½	6	75.0

5th Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	GM Marciano, David		CEMC	5	6	83.3
2.	GM Motylev, Alexander		USVD	5½	7	78.6
3.	GM Movsesian, Sergei		BOSN	5½	7	78.6

6th Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	GM Grószpéter, Attila		ZLGS	5½	6	91.7
2.	FM Ataman, Alper		ITUN	4½	5	90.0
3.	GM Golod, Vitali		BESH	6	7	85.7

Interesting games