European Club Cup 2024 starts – live coverage, participants and information

The European Chess Club Cup 2024, along with the European Women’s Club Cup, is taking place in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia from October 19 to October 27, 2024. The events follow a Swiss system over seven rounds. Teams participating in the Open section consist of six players plus two reserves, while the Women’s section teams have four players with one reserve. The time control for these matches is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by an additional 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment from move one.

Participants and information: European Chess Club Cup 2024 / European Women Chess Club Cup 2024

The top seeded teams in the Open section are: Superchess (Average rating of players 2730), Alkaloid (Average rating of players 2706), Novy Bor Chess Club (Average rating of players 2691), Bayegan Pendik Chess Sports Club (Average rating of players 2683), and Turkish Airlines (Average rating of players 2682).

The rating favorites in the Women’s section are: Cercle d’Echecs de Monte-Carlo (Average rating of players 2489), Garuda Ajka BSK (Average rating of players 2459), TAJFUN SK Ljubljana (Average rating of players 2437), Superchess (Average rating of players 2426) and Sirmium Sremska Mitrovica (Average rating of players 2418).

Live: European Chess Club Cup 2024 live / European Women Chess Club Cup 2024 live / Video

The event gathers world-known players, including 15 players rated 2700+ in the Open section:
GM Arjun Erigaisi (2797, Alkaloid), GM Gukesh D (2794, Superchess), GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2783, Superchess), GM Alireza Firouzja (2767, C’Chartres Echecs), GM Wei Yi (2763, Alkaloid), GM Praggnanandhaa R (2746, Superchess), GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2733, Bayegan Pendik Chess Sports Club) etc.

In the Women’s tournament, the bestrated players are: GM Aleksandra Goryachkina (2533, Cercle d’Echecs de Monte-Carlo), GM Nana Dzagnidze (2513, TAJFUN SK Ljubljana), IM Divya Deshmukh (2501, Garuda Ajka BSK), GM Zhu Jiner (2499, TAJFUN SK Ljubljana), IM Bibisara Assaubayeva (2487, Garuda Ajka BSK), GM Vaishali Rameshbabu (2487, Cercle d’Echecs de Monte-Carlo) etc.

The event will be broadcasted through the ECU TV platform with live video broadcast and commentaries by GM Alojzije Jankovic and Dragana Nikolovska. The video broadcast will also be available on the ECU YouTube channel.