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Basic data

20th European Team Chess Championship (see all-time tournament summary)
Dates:	13th - 22nd November 2015
City:	Reykjavik, Iceland
Venue:	Laugardalshöll
Tournament Director:	Mr. Gunnar Bjornsson (ISL)
Chief Arbiter:	IA Omar Salama (ISL)
Teams participating:	36 (incl. Iceland Legends)
Players participating:	178 (incl. 133 GMs, 32 IMs and 11 FMs)
Games played:	648
Competition format:	Four board nine round Swiss.
Final order decided by:	1. Match points; 2. Deducted Sonneborn-Berger; 3. Game points
Time control:	40 moves in 90 minutes, then 30 minutes for the rest of the game + 30 sec. increment after each move
Website:	http://etcc2015.com
Other websites:	ChessBase reports: r1, r2, r3&4, r5, r6, r7, r8, final ChessVibes reports: teaser, r1&2, r3, r4&5, r6&7, r8, final report
Official logo:
Downloadable game file:	15etch.zip

Tournament review

Individual medals

1st Board

no.	name	flag	code	ELOp
1.	GM Bologan, Viorel		MDA	2845
2.	GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime		FRA	2835
2.	GM Aronian, Levon		ARM	2835

2nd Board

no.	name	flag	code	ELOp
1.	GM Rapport, Richárd		HUN	2828
2.	GM Eljanov, Pavel		UKR	2821
3.	GM Sargissian, Gabriel		ARM	2808

3rd Board

no.	name	flag	code	ELOp
1.	GM Pantsulaia, Levan		GEO	2868
2.	GM Naiditsch, Arkadij		AZE	2773
3.	GM Almási, Zoltán		HUN	2758

4th Board

no.	name	flag	code	ELOp
1.	GM Melkumian, Hrant		ARM	2770
2.	GM Bacrot, Etienne		FRA	2744
3.	GM Nepomnyaschy, Yan		RUS	2729

Reserve Board

no.	name	flag	code	ELOp
1.	GM Yakovenko, Dmitry		RUS	2756
2.	GM Kempiński, Robert		POL	2734
3.	GM Balogh, Csaba		HUN	2731

Interesting games