European Individual Chess Championship 2024 round 2 report

The second round of the European Individual Chess Championship 2024 took place today in Petrovac, Montenego and as many as 47 players score perfect 2/2 points for an early co-lead in the event.

Most of the favorites in the second round scored wins, with a few upsets on the top boards. GM David Navara (CZE, 2674) drew with whites against IM Read Samadov (AZE, 2490), GM Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR, 2653) drew against GM Gudmundur Kjartansson (ISL, 2470), GM Max Warmerdam (NED, 2653) couldn’t prevail against IM Rozen Eytan (ISR, 2482), GM Alan Pichot (ESP, 2649) drew against IM Filip Boe Oslen (DEN, 2470). Scroll down for the full results of round 2 More about EICC: Live games / Round 1 report / Replay key matches

Replay the top games from round 2

Vladimir Fedoseev – Evgenios Ioannidis
Adar Tarhan – Bogdan Daniel-Deac
David Navara – Read Samadov
Cem Kaan Gokerkan – Ivan Saric
Nikita Vitiugov – Hannes Stefansson
Jonas Buhl Bjerre – Nico Zwirs
Frederik Svane – Kaan Kucuksari
Eytan Rozen – Max Warmerdam

Among the players with the maximum score of 2 points are GM Vladimir Fedoseev (SLO, 2712), GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac (ROU, 2687), GM Ivan Saric (CRO, 2668), GM Nikita Vitiugov (ENG, 2668), GM Jonas Buhl Bjerre (DEN, 2654), GM Matthias Bluebaum (GER, 2654), GM Frederik Svane (GER, 2654) and others.

The round was opened by ECU Chief Executive Officer Mr. Erald Dervishi who made the first ceremonial move in the game between GM Vladimir Fedoseev (SLO, 2712) and GM Evgenios Ioannidis (GRE, 2497).

European Individual Chess Championship 2024 round 2 results

Bo.		White	Rtg	Result		Black	Rtg
1	GM	Fedoseev, Vladimir	2712	1 – 0	GM	Ioannidis, Evgenios	2497
2	IM	Tarhan, Adar	2492	0 – 1	GM	Deac, Bogdan-Daniel	2687
3	GM	Navara, David	2674	½ – ½	IM	Samadov, Read	2490
4	GM	Gokerkan, Cem Kaan	2490	0 – 1	GM	Saric, Ivan	2668
5	GM	Vitiugov, Nikita	2668	1 – 0	GM	Stefansson, Hannes	2485
6	GM	Bjerre, Jonas Buhl	2654	1 – 0	IM	Zwirs, Nico	2480
7	GM	Girel, Joseph	2486	0 – 1	GM	Bluebaum, Matthias	2654
8	GM	Svane, Frederik	2654	1 – 0	IM	Kucuksari, Kaan	2473
9	GM	Ponomariov, Ruslan	2653	½ – ½	GM	Kjartansson, Gudmundur	2470
10	IM	Rozen, Eytan	2482	½ – ½	GM	Warmerdam, Max	2653
11	IM	Deuer, Marius	2479	0 – 1	GM	Mamedov, Rauf	2651
12	GM	Pichot, Alan	2649	½ – ½	IM	Olsen, Filip Boe	2470
13	IM	Feuerstack, Aljoscha	2471	0 – 1	GM	Sjugirov, Sanan	2649
14	GM	Grandelius, Nils	2645	1 – 0	IM	Stoyanov, Tsvetan	2465
15	IM	Ilinca, Felix-Antonio	2470	0 – 1	GM	Kollars, Dmitrij	2641
16	GM	Zanan, Evgeny	2463	½ – ½	GM	Sargissian, Gabriel	2640
17	GM	Korobov, Anton	2636	1 – 0	GM	Gharibyan, Mamikon	2462
18	IM	Wadsworth, Matthew J	2461	½ – ½	GM	Rodshtein, Maxim	2636
19	GM	Gurel, Ediz	2635	½ – ½	IM	Babazada, Khazar	2459
20	IM	Willow, Jonah B	2454	0 – 1	GM	Cheparinov, Ivan	2632
21	GM	Suleymanli, Aydin	2632	1 – 0	IM	Fromm, Marius	2452
22	IM	Schneider, Ilja	2451	0 – 1	GM	Yuffa, Daniil	2631
23	IM	Levin, Guy	2445	½ – ½	GM	Svane, Rasmus	2628
24	GM	Indjic, Aleksandar	2623	½ – ½	GM	Sedlak, Nikola	2444
25	FM	Camlar, Arda	2445	1 – 0	GM	Ivic, Velimir	2622
26	GM	Donchenko, Alexander	2617	½ – ½	IM	Kilic, Eray	2442
27	IM	Radovanovic, Nikola	2443	0 – 1	GM	Demchenko, Anton	2615
28	GM	Bartel, Mateusz	2613	½ – ½	IM	Saraci, Nderim	2439
29	GM	Gretarsson, Helgi Ass	2441	0 – 1	GM	Hovhannisyan, Robert	2613
30	GM	Petrosyan, Manuel	2612	½ – ½	IM	Garcia Ramos, Daniel	2437
31	IM	Patrelakis, Evaggelos	2437	0 – 1	GM	Theodorou, Nikolas	2612
32	GM	Dardha, Daniel	2606	1 – 0	IM	Peyrer, Konstantin	2437
33	GM	Bryakin, Mikhail	2435	½ – ½	GM	Lagarde, Maxime	2606
34	GM	Chigaev, Maksim	2605	1 – 0	IM	Druska, Juraj	2433
35	IM	Petrovskyi, Vadym	2433	½ – ½	GM	Fressinet, Laurent	2605
36	GM	Erdogmus, Yagiz Kaan	2604	1 – 0	IM	Juhasz, Agoston	2432
37	FM	Culum, Sanjin	2432	1 – 0	GM	Pultinevicius, Paulius	2599
38	IM	Celik, Hasan Huseyin	2431	½ – ½	GM	Safarli, Eltaj	2596
39	GM	Petrov, Nikita	2590	1 – 0	IM	Manafov, Vugar	2430
40	IM	Kalogeris, Ioannis	2431	1 – 0	GM	Jobava, Baadur	2587
41	GM	Maurizzi, Marc`andria	2585	1 – 0	IM	Aizenberg, Benny	2427
42	IM	Injac, Teodora	2429	0 – 1	GM	Romanov, Evgeny	2584
43	GM	Laurent-Paoli, Pierre	2583	1 – 0	IM	Tadic, Stefan	2422
44	IM	Licznerski, Lukasz	2422	½ – ½	GM	Gazik, Viktor	2579
45	GM	Gumularz, Szymon	2579	1 – 0	GM	Godena, Michele	2419
46	FM	Yaniv, Yuval	2421	0 – 1	GM	Motylev, Alexander	2577
47	GM	Kourkoulos-Arditis, Stamatis	2575	½ – ½	FM	Pasztor, Balazs	2419
48	IM	Travadon, Loic	2419	½ – ½	GM	Muradli, Mahammad	2575
49	IM	Piliposyan, Robert	2418	0 – 1	GM	Yilmaz, Mustafa	2568
50	GM	Dragnev, Valentin	2566	½ – ½	GM	Yankelevich, Lev	2417
51	FM	Dotzer, Lukas	2418	½ – ½	GM	Kadric, Denis	2562
52	GM	Sanal, Vahap	2561	1 – 0	IM	Sieciechowicz, Marcin	2416
53	IM	Fus, Jakub	2417	0 – 1	GM	Can, Emre	2559
54	GM	Vogel, Roven	2558	0 – 1	IM	Koelle, Tobias	2414
55	GM	Asadli, Vugar	2554	1 – 0	IM	Vanczak, Tamas	2413
56	GM	Parligras, Mircea-Emilian	2550	0 – 1	IM	Tutisani, Noe	2411
57	FM	Talibov, Shiroghlan	2415	½ – ½	GM	Petkov, Momchil	2549
58	GM	Paichadze, Luka	2546	½ – ½	FM	Agasarov, Benik	2410
59	IM	Zemach, Nadav	2414	½ – ½	GM	Gavrilescu, David	2545
60	GM	Ivanisevic, Ivan	2544	1 – 0	IM	Ahmad, Khagan	2406
61	IM	Shohat, Yotam	2412	0 – 1	GM	Nasuta, Grzegorz	2543
62	GM	Ahmadzada, Ahmad	2542	½ – ½	GM	Socko, Monika	2403
63	FM	Prokofiev, Valentyn	2411	½ – ½	IM	Keinanen, Toivo	2541
64	GM	Kovalev, Vladislav	2539	½ – ½	WGM	Beydullayeva, Govhar	2403
65	GM	Subelj, Jan	2535	1 – 0	IM	Defromont, Benjamin	2399
66	IM	Agdelen, Huseyin Can	2407	1 – 0	GM	Quparadze, Giga	2533
67	GM	Grigoriants, Sergey	2531	1 – 0	FM	Ermitsch, Magnus	2399
68	FM	Magold, Filip	2405	½ – ½	GM	Stefansson, Vignir Vatnar	2530
69	GM	Gorshtein, Ido	2528	1 – 0	IM	Kalezic, Blazo	2394
70	IM	Bournel, Antoine	2403	0 – 1	GM	Kacharava, Nikolozi	2525
71	GM	Neverov, Valeriy	2401	½ – ½	GM	Samunenkov, Ihor	2523
72	IM	Alexakis, Dimitris	2520	1 – 0	IM	Ozenir, Ekin Baris	2392
73	IM	Domalchuk-Jonasson, Aleksandr	2399	½ – ½	GM	Brunello, Sabino	2518
74	IM	Lashkin, Jegor	2518	½ – ½	IM	Niedbala, Bartlomiej	2389
75	FM	Barria Santos, Jose Guilherme	2398	½ – ½	GM	Peng, Li Min	2516
76	GM	Sokolovsky, Yahli	2516	1 – 0	IM	Decuigniere, Tom	2385
77	IM	Mikac, Matjaz	2392	½ – ½	IM	Kosakowski, Jakub	2516
78	GM	Vetoshko, Volodymyr	2513	½ – ½	WGM	Sliwicka, Alicja	2380
79	FM	Krallis, Christos	2390	0 – 1	GM	Rasulov, Vugar	2511
80	GM	Dudin, Gleb	2510	½ – ½	FM	Gal, Andrej	2255
81	GM	Iskandarov, Misratdin	2506	1 – 0	WIM	Hryzlova, Sofiia	2177
82	IM	Abdulov, Orkhan	2385	½ – ½	IM	Seo, Jung Min	2505
83	GM	Ohanyan, Emin	2504	½ – ½		Sitbon, Itay	2170
84	IM	Baltag, Iulian	2383	½ – ½	IM	Maksimovic, Bojan	2504
85	GM	Sivuk, Vitaly	2502	½ – ½	WFM	Kochavi, Dana	2166
86	GM	Van Foreest, Jorden	2687	1 – 0		Yalcinkaya, Efe	2117
87	FM	Lavrencic, Matic	2366	1 – 0	GM	Martirosyan, Haik M.	2676
88	IM	Vestby-Ellingsen, Mads	2368	½ – ½	GM	Sargsyan, Shant	2655
89	FM	Yordanov, Lachezar	2332	½ – ½	GM	Bacrot, Etienne	2653
90	GM	Predke, Alexandr	2652	0 – 1	FM	Kuru, Atilla	2371
91	GM	Ivanchuk, Vasyl	2640	½ – ½	IM	Kochavi, Ori	2363
92	GM	Santos Latasa, Jaime	2630	1 – 0	FM	Derakhshani, Borna	2355
93	GM	Durarbayli, Vasif	2626	1 – 0	FM	Sherman, Raem	2340
94	FM	Tudor, Henry Edward	2365	0 – 1	GM	Hakobyan, Aram	2623
95	GM	Vocaturo, Daniele	2597	1 – 0	FM	Gombocz, Ferenc Jr.	2333
96	GM	Tomczak, Jacek	2593	1 – 0	WIM	Aydin, Gulenay	2271
97	GM	Drazic, Sinisa	2255	0 – 1	GM	Lupulescu, Constantin	2591
98	FM	Dubnevych, Maksym	2264	0 – 1	GM	Fridman, Daniel	2581
99	GM	Moroni, Luca Jr	2571	1 – 0	FM	Zherebtsova, Alexandra	2268
100	FM	Bartel, Michal	2222	0 – 1	GM	Livaic, Leon	2557
101	FM	Berin, Artem	2224	0 – 1	GM	Socko, Bartosz	2554
102	FM	Lundin, Jan	2175	0 – 1	GM	Blohberger, Felix	2536
103	GM	Sebenik, Matej	2524	1 – 0	CM	Safar, Sandro	2242
104	IM	Boyer, Mahel	2506	1 – 0	FM	Stanojevic, Ilija	2197
105	FM	Djokic, Mihailo	2204	½ – ½	IM	Kramer, Julian	2503
106		Tsanatsqenishvili, Alexandre	1987	½ – ½	GM	Djukic, Nikola	2499
107	GM	Sanikidze, Tornike	2437	1 – 0		Parligras, Cosmin	2182
108	WIM	Kanyamarala, Trisha	2171	0 – 1	IM	Zhou, Yang-Fan	2418
109	GM	Piorun, Kacper	2580	1 – 0		Modric, Milos	2066
110	GM	Fernandez, Daniel Howard	2503	1 – 0	FM	Olcum, Ahmet	2180
111	IM	Malek, Jan	2499	1 – 0		Ramaj, Ergit	2180
112	GM	Gines Esteo, Pedro Antonio	2492	1 – 0	WIM	Allahverdiyeva, Ayan	2174
113	IM	Akbas, Umut Ata	2466	1 – 0	FM	Pipiras, Filipa Fortuna	2166
114		Tamas, Christian-Arrydan	2166	0 – 1	IM	Kanyamarala, Tarun	2371
115	FM	Gasparyan, Erik R.	2371	1 – 0		Guleryuz, Kuzey	2158
116		Asllani, Muhamet	2157	0 – 1	IM	Wallace, John Paul	2368
117	FM	Goroshkov, Maksym	2368	1 – 0		Doraszelski, Alexander	2156
118	CM	Marie, Maxime	2154	0 – 1	FM	Citak, Selim	2366
119		Goroshchenko, Dmitry	2141	½ – ½	FM	Nemsadze, Daviti	2366
120	GM	Golubka, Petro	2365	1 – 0	FM	Ergazakis, Ioannis	2150
121		Stoinev, Metodi	2138	0 – 1	FM	Ljepic, Andrej	2365
122	FM	Voiteanu, Gabriel	2132	0 – 1	IM	Damjanovic, Vuk	2364
123	IM	Maltsevskaya, Aleksandra	2364	½ – ½	CM	Arakelyan, Manvel	2140
124	FM	Akhvlediani, Irakli	2363	1 – 0		Horvat, Damjan	2135
125		Dumbelovic, Novak	2123	½ – ½	IM	Pastar, Slaven	2361
126	FM	Yarar, Bora	2361	1 – 0		Celenkovic, Bojan	2125
127	FM	Bodrogi, Bendeguz	2358	1 – 0		Ceyhan, Mert	2114
128	GM	Nikcevic, Nebojsa	2354	0 – 1		Odabasi, Ruzgar	2114
129	WFM	Bashylina, Luisa	2105	1 – 0	FM	Novosel, Lovro	2353
130	IM	Yurtseven, Melih	2348	0 – 1		Sakmak, Kutay	2104
131		Willim, Michael	2102	0 – 1	FM	Dalaud, Dorian	2348
132	FM	Hollan, Martin	2347	½ – ½	FM	Bognar, Csaba Dr.	2101
133	FM	Coursaget, Nicolas	2101	½ – ½	IM	Filip, Lucian-Ioan	2341
134	FM	Szwed, Jacek	2341	1 – 0		Baghirov, Orkhan	2097
135	IM	Fruebing, Stefan	2336	½ – ½		Giacomini, Hector	2095
136	WFM	Pirvulescu, Ekaterina	2086	0 – 1	FM	Vagman, Roy	2322
137	FM	Hovakimyan, Vache	2319	½ – ½	FM	Rama, Lorenc	2086
138	WFM	Blanquet, Camille	2079	1 – 0	FM	Brzezina, Piotr	2307
139	FM	Sukovic, Andrej	2299	1 – 0		Gur, Ali	2086
140	FM	Zymberi, Astrit	2070	0 – 1	FM	Fiedorek, Michal	2295
141	FM	Leszko, Bence	2292	1 – 0		Stoychev, Ognian	2071
142		Brzezina, Pawel	2064	½ – ½	FM	Unat, Can Haktan	2290
143	IM	Lekic, Dusan	2288	1 – 0	WFM	Szente Varga, Fruzsina	2059
144		Guretchii, Kirill	2058	1 – 0	IM	Vujosevic, Vladimir	2285
145	FM	Filip, Andrei	2283	1 – 0		Mandalinic, David	2058
146		Antonyan, Hamlet	2056	0 – 1	FM	Perossa, Nicolas	2277
147	FM	Yeritsyan, Hayk	2276	1 – 0		Pantovic, Dragan M	2056
148		Pousada Garcia, Victor Daniel	2053	0 – 1	IM	Manea, Alexandru	2273
149	FM	Mouhamad, Joachim	2273	1 – 0	FM	Minic, Milan	2052
150	FM	Fishchuk, Vladyslav	2270	½ – ½		Yekeler, Kerem Sarp	2048
151	WFM	Koljevic, Nikolina	2051	½ – ½	FM	Petrovic, Aleksa	2262
152	IM	Bodiroga, Predrag	2260	1 – 0		Eryigit, Yakup	2025
153		Marchadour, Emilie	2034	½ – ½	FM	Valiyev, Shahin	2260
154	FM	Hulka, Valentyn	2259	1 – 0		Iordache, Alexia-Andreea	2018
155	WCM	Akat, Elifnaz	2020	0 – 1	FM	Vasynda, Oleksandr	2257
156	WIM	Pogorelskikh, Sofia	2252	1 – 0		Pehar, Borna	2010
157		Tunge, Christian	2015	0 – 1	IM	Gevorgyan, David Sh.	2247
158	FM	Hamidov, Allahverdi	2247	1 – 0		Metin, Enis	2005
159		Karaca, Yigit	2006	1 – 0		Sapocinic, Semion	2247
160	FM	Pegno, Mattia	2245	1 – 0	IM	Smolin, Sergey	1988
161	WIM	Kubicka, Anna	2235	½ – ½		Stefan, Iulia-Cristiana	1964
162		Qorri, Fatmir	1993	½ – ½		Pycinski, Wladyslaw	2230
163	FM	Durucay, Uygar	2226	½ – ½		Maghakyan, Hayk	1958
164		Basdar, Atakan	1962	½ – ½	CM	Noy, Eyal	2226
165	FM	Biliskov, Vjekoslav	2225	1 – 0		Soldo, Dario	1949
166		Volcov, Igor	1954	0 – 1	FM	Kalavannan, Koby	2225
167		Shlaen, Rem	1947	0 – 1		Nalbandyan, Vahan	2223
168		Alexakis, Dimitrios	1943	0 – 1	CM	Aslanov, Umid	2222
169	CM	Lauda, Alexandr	2222	1 – 0		Kyparissopoulos, Spyridon	1946
170		Pirvulescu, Adrian	1929	½ – ½	WIM	Orian, Noga	2221
171		Lever, Erwan	2221	1 – 0		Labrovic, Jakov	1931
172		Zivkovic, Slaven	1919	0 – 1		Kawulok, Marek	2219
173	CM	Rychagov, Nikita	2217	1 – 0		Petrovic, Slavko	1919
174		Barbir, Petar	1902	0 – 1	CM	Mizzi, Jack	2214
175	CM	Deveci, Huseyin Said	2211	1 – 0		Valitov, Ilshat	1908
176		Milovic, Ilija	1891	0 – 1	WFM	Shvedova, Alexandra	2206
177		Spanos, Nomikos	1882	0 – 1	WIM	Srdanovic, Jovana	2200
178	CM	Garsky, Vladyslav	2200	1 – 0		Franco, Alessandro P.	1893
179		Kayan, Veli	1845	0 – 1		Gov, Guy	2200
180		Starcevic, Ante Leon	2200	1 – 0		Uysal, Kerem	1884
181		Matei, Stefan-Razvan	1807	1 – 0		Scekic, Veljko	2199
182	FM	Djurovic, Peko	2198	1 – 0		Khachatryan, Gagik B.	1858
183	CM	Prisacaru, Stefan-Emilian	2197	½ – ½		Onem, Cem	1825
184		Lakusic, Zoran	1749	0 – 1	FM	Yilmaz, Baver	2196
185	CM	Saraci, Korab	2193	1 – 0		De Winter, Roman	1778
186		Milosevic, Vuk	1702	0 – 1		Caruso, Augusto	2193
187	WGM	Rudzinska, Michalina	2192	1 – 0		Nadanyan, Kiti	1725
188		Henn, Jonathan	1534	0 – 1		Abdulkarimli, Eljan	2190
189	CM	Gusev, Mikhail	2186	1 – 0		Balent, Sara	1662
190		Mitrovic, Danilo	0	0 – 1		Todorov, Todor Spirov	2185
191	CM	Yonal, Timur	2184	1 – 0		Camas, Mustafa Arda	0
192		Vukazic, Zlatko	0	0 – 1		Lorenz, Roger	2184
193		Markovic, Franjo-Josip	2181	1 – 0		Vukasovic, Vlado	0

The third round starts tomorrow at 15:00 CET and live games with video broadcast can be followed through the ECU TV page. Live video broadcast with commentaries by GM Alojzije Jankovic and WIM Lena Miladinovic can be also followed through the ECU YouTube Channel.

Photos by Mark Livshitz