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Basic data

24th European Chess Club Cup (see all-time tournament summary)
Date:	16th - 23rd October 2008
City:	Halkidiki, Greece
Venue:	Theophano Imperial Palace
Chairman of Organizing Committee:	Mr. Theodoros Tsorbatzoglou (GRE)
Tournament Director:	Mr. Werner Stubevoll (AUT)
Chief Arbiter:	IA Dirk de Ridder (BEL)
Teams participating:	64 from 34 countries (incl. 2 teams from Kosovo)
Players participating:	463 (incl. 140 GMs, 94 IMs, 1 WGM, 64 FMs, 1 CM and 2 WFMs)
Games played:	1344 (5 games were forfeited)
Competition format:	Six board seven round Swiss.
Final order decided by:	1. Match points; 2. Game points; 3. Buchholz
Time control:	40 moves in 90 minutes, then 30 minutes to finish the game. 30 seconds increment per move
Website:	http://ecc2008.chessdom.com/
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Downloadable game file:	08ecc.zip

Tournament review

Best board results

1st Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	IM Gharamian, Tigran		CHRL	5½	6	91.7
2.	GM Movsesian, Sergei		BOSN	5½	7	78.6
3.	GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar		ALKS	4½	6	75.0

2nd Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	GM Bacrot, Etienne		OSBB	5½	7	78.6
2.	GM Zhang Pengxiang		GXTA	5½	7	78.6
3.	GM Balogh, Csaba		BADN	5½	7	78.6

3rd Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	GM Inarkiev, Ernesto		ALKS	5½	6	91.7
2.	Blomqvist, Erik		ROCK	6	7	85.7
3.	GM Areschenko, Alexander		PVKK	4	5	80.0

4th Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	GM Miroshnichenko, Evgeny		PVKK	4½	5	90.0
2.	GM Akopian, Vladimir		MMER	6	7	85.7
3.	GM Naiditsch, Arkadij		OSBB	5½	7	78.6

5th Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	GM Malakhov, Vladimir		USVD	7	7	100.0
2.	GM Andreikin, Dmitry		EKSA	4½	5	90.0
3.	Bučinskas, Valdas		PANV	6	7	85.7

6th Board

no.	name	flag	code	pts	gms	%
1.	GM Minasian, Artashes		BKYE	6	6	100.0
2.	GM Pashikian, Arman		MKYE	5	6	83.3
3.	GM Dreev, Alexei		USVD	5	6	83.3

Interesting games