18 March 2018

Two Rounds of European Individual Championship Played in Batumi

Favourites keep suffer losses.

Photo by Sophie Nikoladze
Photo by Sophie Nikoladze

In round 2 of the European Individual Championship in Batumi, several unexpected results were fixed on the leaders' tables. The tournament's №2 Radoslaw Wojteszek lost to a young Romanian player Bogdan-Daniel Deac, while Jure Skoberne outplayed Ivan Cheparinov.  The games Stocek - Mamedov, Jobava - Moroni, Huschenbeth - Demchenko, Korobov - Boruchovsky, Lenic - Stupak and some others were drawn. 

33 participants, including the Russians Sanan Sjugirov, Evgeny Romanov, Evgeny Alekseev, Kirill Alekseenko, Alexandr Predke, Evgeniy Najer, Ernesto Inarkiev, Alexey Sarana, Daniil Yuffa, and Saveliy Golubov, have soured 2 points.  

Round 3 pairings

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