Europe Echecs wins the European Corporate Chess Championship 2024

The 2024 European Corporate Chess Championship concluded in Asnieres sur Seine, Paris, France. The Closing ceremony of the event took place yesterday evening in the City venue of Asnieres sur Seine with the attendance of the Mayor of Asnieres Mr. Manuel Aeschlimann, Deputy Mayor of Asnieres Mr. Frederic Sitbon, ECU Secretary General Mr. Theodoros Tsorbatzoglou, Chairman of the ECU Social Commission Mr. Franck Droin, Vice President of the French Chess Federation Mrs. Laurie Delorme, Tournament Director Mr. Jean-Claude Moingt, and other representatives of the French Chess Federation.

After nine played rounds, Europe Echecs clinched gold with the score of 25 match points. After a loss in the third round, Europe Echecs scored six consecutive team victories to emerge as the sole Winner of the event.

Playing against Probit in the last round, the team Leonard took a narrow 2.5-1.5 victory for the final score of 24 match points which was enough for clear second place and silver medals.

PwC Poland and KPMG scored 22 match points each to tie for bronze and the tiebreak criteria (higher number of wins) determined the Winner. Since PwC Poland had 6 match victories and KPMG scored 5 match victories, the Polish team won bronze.

The best-ranked companies in Consulting, Industry, Sport Tourism, Finance, Energy and Digital company received special awards. The best-ranked Consulting company in the event was KPMG, the best-ranked Industry company was Agrofert, Chateau Montaiguillon was the best-ranked company of Sport Tourism, the best-ranked Finance company was Greco, the best Energy Company came Edvance, and the best-ranked Digital company was Google (more: World Chess Championship is sponsored by Google)

Final standings

Rk.	Team	Games	+	=	–	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	EUROPE ECHECS	9	8	0	1	25	8	27
2	Leonard	9	7	1	1	24	7	22
3	PwC POLAND	9	6	1	2	22	6	21
4	KPMG	9	5	3	1	22	5	23
5	Agrofert	9	6	0	3	21	6	22.5
6	POST SWISS	9	5	2	2	21	5	22.5
7	TePe Sigeman	9	5	2	2	21	5	22
8	Château Montaiguillon	9	5	2	2	21	5	21
9	Volkswagen 1	9	5	2	2	21	5	20
10	GRECO	9	4	4	1	21	4	22.5
11	Région Ile-de-France	9	5	1	3	20	5	19.5
12	ATSCAF NORD	9	5	1	3	20	5	19
13	Edvance (Groupe EDF)	9	5	1	3	20	5	17
14	d-fine GmbH	9	4	3	2	20	4	21
15	DGAC	9	4	3	2	20	4	20.5
16	VW Financial Services	9	4	3	2	20	4	19
17	European Patent Office 2	8	4	1	3	20	4	14.5
18	Filmosaurus Rex	9	5	0	4	19	5	20
19	Société Générale	9	5	0	4	19	5	19
20	A L`ABRI	9	4	2	3	19	4	22
21	Google B	9	4	2	3	19	4	20.5
22	SNEF 1	9	3	4	2	19	3	21
23	PROBIT	9	4	1	4	18	4	20.5
24	Microsoft Europe	9	4	1	4	18	4	18.5
25	Les Pyramides de Port-Marly	9	3	3	3	18	3	19
	Scibids Technology	9	3	3	3	18	3	19
27	UBS AG	9	3	3	3	18	3	18.5
28	KOZLODUY NPP	9	3	3	3	18	3	18
29	ASML	9	3	3	3	18	3	17.5
	TALANX	9	3	3	3	18	3	17.5
31	Dassault Systèmes 3	9	3	3	3	18	3	16.5
	SNEF 2	9	3	3	3	18	3	16.5
33	Kaïssa	9	2	5	2	18	2	17
34	EuropChess 1	9	3	2	4	17	3	18.5
35	Volkswagen 2	9	3	2	4	17	3	17
	EBRD	9	3	2	4	17	3	17
	DGAC – CRNA/N	9	3	2	4	17	3	17
38	European Patent Office 1	9	3	2	4	17	3	16.5
	Dassault Systèmes 1	9	3	2	4	17	3	16.5
40	Thalès Ile-de-France 1	9	3	2	4	17	3	16
41	EL AL ISRAEL AIRLINES	9	3	2	4	17	3	15.5
42	Banque de France 2	9	2	4	3	17	2	17
43	QRT 1	9	3	1	5	16	3	16
44	CSE FORSEE POWER	9	3	1	5	16	3	15
45	Banque de France 1	9	2	3	4	16	2	19
46	Google A	9	2	3	4	16	2	17
47	MedienLB	9	2	3	4	16	2	15.5
48	Union Bancaire Privée	9	2	3	4	16	2	15
49	EuropChess 2	8	2	1	5	16	2	12
50	QRT 2	8	2	1	5	16	2	11.5
51	PwC FRANCE	8	1	2	5	15	1	11
52	Dassault Systèmes 2	9	2	1	6	14	2	15
53	Orchestra | The leisure platform	9	2	1	6	14	2	13.5
54	Les Siirène	9	1	2	6	13	1	13
55	Sodern	9	1	2	6	13	1	9.5
56	DALKIA	9	1	1	7	12	1	13
57	NEXTEP	4	0	2	2	6	0	5

Final round board parings European Corporate Chess Championship

Round 9 on 2024/11/23 at 10:00
Bo.	1	EUROPE ECHECS	Rtg	–	2	Agrofert	Rtg	3 : 1
1/1	GM	Kamsky, Gata (w)	2630	–	GM	Dimitrov, Radoslav (b)	2459	1 – 0
1/2	IM	Razafindratsima, Timothe (b)	2340	–	GM	Rusev, Krasimir (w)	2398	1 – 0
1/3	IM	Stephan, Victor (w)	2306	–	FM	Mitev, Valentin (b)	2180	0 – 1
1/4		Tulliez, Andre (b)	1976	–		Hristova, Ivelina (w)	1783	1 – 0
Bo.	11	KPMG	Rtg	–	8	POST SWISS	Rtg	2 : 2
2/1	GM	Urkedal, Frode Olav Olsen (w)	2504	–	GM	Dardha, Daniel (b)	2552	½ – ½
2/2	CM	Guttulsrud, Odd Martin (b)	2201	–	FM	Ondozi, Murtez (w)	2374	0 – 1
2/3	WGM	Khalafova, Narmin (w)	2166	–	FM	Fejzullahu, Afrim (b)	2206	½ – ½
2/4		Kyrkjebo, Hanna B. (b)	1899	–		Clausen, Martin (w)	1981	1 – 0
Bo.	3	Château Montaiguillon	Rtg	–	7	GRECO	Rtg	2 : 2
3/1	GM	Lagarde, Maxime (w)	2585	–	GM	Onyshchuk, Volodymyr (b)	2649	1 – 0
3/2	IM	Kirk, Ezra (b)	2400	–	IM	Grinev, Valeriy (w)	2315	0 – 1
3/3	WIM	De Seroux, Camille (w)	2131	–	IM	Maly, Alexey (b)	2222	0 – 1
3/4		Kirk, Eden (b)	1933	–		Kuftyrev, Pavlo (w)	1966	1 – 0
Bo.	4	TePe Sigeman	Rtg	–	6	A L`ABRI	Rtg	2 : 2
4/1	GM	L’ami, Erwin (w)	2647	–	GM	Moussard, Jules (b)	2600	1 – 0
4/2	GM	Brynell, Stellan (b)	2338	–	IM	Rakotomaharo, Fy Antenaina (w)	2394	0 – 1
4/3		Eklund, Joel (w)	2255	–	FM	Youssoupov, Moissei (b)	2173	0 – 1
4/4		Sigeman, Johan (b)	1988	–		Groz, Emilie (w)	1904	1 – 0
Bo.	5	Leonard	Rtg	–	9	PROBIT	Rtg	2½:1½
5/1	GM	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime (w)	2754	–	GM	Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios (b)	2550	½ – ½
5/2	FM	Moingt, Jean-Claude (b)	2119	–	WGM	Zawadzka, Jolanta (w)	2236	0 – 1
5/3	WIM	Moingt, Anne (w)	2007	–	FM	Miroslaw, Michal (b)	2199	1 – 0
5/4		Belluire, Beatrice (b)	1893	–		Zdziarska-Zareba, Lidia (w)	1816	1 – 0
Bo.	16	Filmosaurus Rex	Rtg	–	29	PwC POLAND	Rtg	1½:2½
6/1	IM	Levacic, Patrick (w)	2240	–	IM	Barski, Radoslaw (b)	2241	0 – 1
6/2		Lafortune, Emerick (b)	2182	–		Galuszka, Tomasz (w)	2084	½ – ½
6/3		Vajic, Hrvoje (w)	2061	–		Moscicka, Pola (b)	1895	0 – 1
6/4		Stankovic, Andrej (b)	1940	–		Lala, Szymon (w)	1470	1 – 0
Bo.	24	EuropChess 1	Rtg	–	10	d-fine GmbH	Rtg	1 : 3
7/1		Demais, Traian (w)	2035	–	FM	Klein, Felix (b)	2275	0 – 1
7/2	CM	Wahlund, Max (b)	2019	–		Hellwig, Tobias (w)	2180	0 – 1
7/3		Keller, Christophe (w)	2002	–		Sundorf, Jannik (b)	2179	0 – 1
7/4		Bertram, Johannes (b)	1898	–		Sterin, Andrei (w)	0	1 – 0
Bo.	12	DGAC	Rtg	–	20	SNEF 1	Rtg	2 : 2
8/1	IM	Brochet, Philippe (w)	2401	–	GM	Laurent-Paoli, Pierre (b)	2478	0 – 1
8/2	CM	Decosse, Jean-Fabien (b)	2120	–	GM	Girel, Joseph (w)	2397	0 – 1
8/3	CM	Marie, Maxime (w)	2154	–		Ksstentini, David (b)	0	1 – 0
8/4		Lejeune, Gael (b)	1994	–		Boudediche, Chams (w)	0	1 – 0
Bo.	25	Société Générale	Rtg	–	13	Volkswagen 1	Rtg	1½:2½
9/1	GM	Dourerassou, Jonathan (w)	2485	–	IM	Abel, Dennes (b)	2396	½ – ½
9/2	FM	Solakian-Van Eyll, Jerome (b)	2241	–		Schulze, Torben (w)	2349	0 – 1
9/3		Amar, Ludovic (w)	0	–		Collmann, Jan (b)	1998	1 – 0
9/4		Bassat, Jeremie (b)	0	–		Zehe, Marc-Kevin (w)	1924	0 – 1
Bo.	21	Banque de France 1	Rtg	–	22	Scibids Technology	Rtg	2 : 2
10/1	CM	Croizier, Valery (w)	2168	–		Hirth, Julien (b)	2067	1 – 0
10/2		Renault, Fabien (b)	2008	–		Lemonnier, Remi (w)	1998	0 – 1
10/3		Petit, Clement (w)	1939	–		Caloone, Thomas (b)	1975	0 – 1
10/4		Charbit, Florent (b)	1898	–		Auvray, Juliette (w)	1947	1 – 0
Bo.	26	ASML	Rtg	–	14	Région Ile-de-France	Rtg	1 : 3
11/1		Margarido, Jose Miguel Teixeira (w)	2046	–	GM	Fressinet, Laurent (b)	2596	0 – 1
11/2		Coronel, Joshua (b)	1972	–	FM	Dalaud, Dorian (w)	2249	0 – 1
11/3		Quintana Hernandez, Marcos Ivan (w)	1946	–		Destic, Elena (b)	1939	0 – 1
11/4		Weijers, Ralf (b)	1932	–		Coriat, Caroline (w)	1740	1 – 0
Bo.	15	VW Financial Services	Rtg	–	27	KOZLODUY NPP	Rtg	2½:1½
12/1	GM	Lubbe, Nikolas (w)	2454	–	WFM	Baninska, Tanja (b)	1998	1 – 0
12/2		Gabriel, Uwe (b)	1994	–		Ignatov, Georgi (w)	1983	0 – 1
12/3		Kessler, Marcel (w)	1994	–		Tsolov, Emil (b)	1942	½ – ½
12/4		Hagemann, Sven (b)	1985	–		Stoev, Venko (w)	1832	1 – 0
Bo.	28	European Patent Office 1	Rtg	–	18	Google B	Rtg	0 : 4
13/1		Debard, Michel (w)	1977	–	IM	Reimanis, Ritvars (b)	2313	0 – 1
13/2		Liefrink, Feike (b)	1942	–		Adeyemi, Kola (w)	2084	0 – 1
13/3		Dekker, Derk (w)	1924	–		Kuhn, Patrick (b)	2006	0 – 1
13/4		Bonvalot, Isabelle (b)	1861	–		Virag, Csilla (w)	1967	0 – 1
Bo.	23	Banque de France 2	Rtg	–	30	ATSCAF NORD	Rtg	½ :3½
14/1		Zerafa, Jonathan (w)	2077	–	FM	Toulzac, Pierre-Yves (b)	2096	½ – ½
14/2		Venard, Paul-Andre (b)	2063	–		Devecchi, Jorge (w)	1977	0 – 1
14/3		Stranjakovitch, Jean (w)	1999	–		Geujon, Jean-Charles (b)	1829	0 – 1
14/4		Amand, Nathalie (b)	1844	–		Nguyen, Gael (w)	1670	0 – 1
Bo.	42	DGAC – CRNA/N	Rtg	–	19	Les Pyramides de Port-Marly	Rtg	1 : 3
15/1	FM	Mirimanian, Hayk (w)	2254	–	GM	Guliyev, Namig (b)	2475	0 – 1
15/2		Toure, Vasanth (b)	2011	–		Stettler, Olivier (w)	1797	1 – 0
15/3		Martine, Gil (w)	0	–		Strand, Hakan (b)	1607	0 – 1
15/4		Cordonnier, Etienne (b)	0	–		Wyler, Luc (w)	1495	0 – 1
Bo.	17	Microsoft Europe	Rtg	–	31	Dassault Systèmes 3	Rtg	3 : 1
16/1	FM	Terekhov, Andrey (w)	2224	–	FM	Belkaid, Sohan (b)	2389	1 – 0
16/2		Lempereur, Frederic (b)	2222	–		Ridel, Fabien (w)	2025	0 – 1
16/3	FM	Fedorov, Evgenii (w)	2167	–		De Temmerman, Paul (b)	1746	1 – 0
16/4		Chaitan, Shet (b)	1792	–		Ferreira, Isaque (w)	0	1 – 0
Bo.	35	Thalès Ile-de-France 1	Rtg	–	47	UBS AG	Rtg	1 : 3
17/1		Marty, Jean-Yves (w)	1949	–		Borowski, Piotr (b)	2126	0 – 1
17/2		Ibazizen, Abdelatif (b)	1933	–	WFM	Farhat Willemstein, Stela Souza (w)	1827	1 – 0
17/3		Quemener, Yann (w)	1774	–		Graeff, Karl (b)	0	0 – 1
17/4		Delcambre, Morgan (b)	0	–		Kunchenko, Oleksandr (w)	0	0 – 1
Bo.	32	Kaïssa	Rtg	–	36	EBRD	Rtg	3 : 1
18/1		Coupet, Pascal (w)	2167	–		Dincer, Mehmet Alper (b)	1783	1 – 0
18/2		Bernard, Serge (b)	1995	–		Zlobin, Mikhail (w)	1766	1 – 0
18/3		Droin, Franck (w)	1909	–		Allan, David (b)	0	1 – 0
18/4		Tripodi, Carole (b)	0	–		Wasim, Ahmed (w)	0	0 – 1
Bo.	37	MedienLB	Rtg	–	38	Edvance (Groupe EDF)	Rtg	1½:2½
19/1		Schmied, Johannes (w)	2055	–		Champion, Philippe (b)	1979	½ – ½
19/2	WFM	Stangl, Anita (b)	1964	–		Timotic, Nicolas (w)	1915	0 – 1
19/3		Stangl, Robert (w)	1903	–		Peres, Olivier (b)	1199	1 – 0
19/4		Stangl, Michael (b)	0	–		Sarafidis, Christos (w)	0	0 – 1
Bo.	53	Union Bancaire Privée	Rtg	–	33	Volkswagen 2	Rtg	1 : 3
20/1		Rasevic, Srdjan (w)	2126	–		Engelmann, Jakob (b)	2245	0 – 1
20/2		Aymon, Jerome (b)	0	–		Martin Lozano, Alvaro (w)	1947	0 – 1
20/3		Fornerod, Thomas (w)	0	–		Poelig, Juergen (b)	1877	1 – 0
20/4		Malzacher, Per (b)	0	–		Derkow, Sven (w)	0	0 – 1
Bo.	46	Dassault Systèmes 2	Rtg	–	45	Dassault Systèmes 1	Rtg	1½:2½
21/1		Tornare, Michel (w)	1933	–		Khallouf, Anas (b)	1853	0 – 1
21/2		Sarath, M Salim (b)	1728	–		Lorenzo, Alfredo (w)	1762	½ – ½
21/3		Boyer, Jean-Francois (w)	1714	–		Leopardo, Julien (b)	1697	0 – 1
21/4		Bouix, Julien (b)	0	–		Sager, Cedric (w)	1476	1 – 0
Bo.	39	EL AL ISRAEL AIRLINES	Rtg	–	34	SNEF 2	Rtg	2 : 2
22/1		Burstein, Almog (w)	1846	–	IM	Degraeve, Remy (b)	2377	0 – 1
22/2		Breger, Baruch (b)	1839	–	FM	Tomasi, Albert (w)	2286	0 – 1
22/3		Mdivani, Maka (w)	1824	–		Perfezou, Francois (b)	0	1 – 0
22/4		Birnboim, Eitan (b)	1776	–		Elhad, Youssouf (w)	0	1 – 0
Bo.	41	Google A	Rtg	–	51	Orchestra | The leisure platform	Rtg	3 : 1
23/1		Heather, James (w)	2000	–		Karagyozian, Edgar (b)	2306	0 – 1
23/2		Castro Ros, Alejandro (b)	1771	–		Calvie, Louis (w)	0	1 – 0
23/3		Yousefi, Hossein (w)	1700	–		Wei, Vincent (b)	0	1 – 0
23/4		Bulva, Maksim (b)	1629	–		Plas, Clement (w)	0	1 – 0
Bo.	52	European Patent Office 2	Rtg	–	40	TALANX	Rtg	1½:2½
24/1		Alink, Maarten (w)	1782	–		Lossin, Sven-Hendrik (b)	2065	0 – 1
24/2		Lange, Ronny (b)	1742	–		Roth, Thorsten (w)	1959	0 – 1
24/3		Goulis, Panagiotis (w)	1498	–		Mertins, Volker (b)	0	1 – 0
24/4		Rosello-Garcia, Matthieu (b)	0	–		Akbari, Mahdi (w)	0	½ – ½
Bo.	43	Les Siirène	Rtg	–	44	QRT 1	Rtg	1 : 3
25/1		Larcheveque, Francois (w)	1954	–	FM	Sohier, Julien (b)	2134	0 – 1
25/2		Wojtkowski, Frederic (b)	1912	–		Rubino, Adrien (w)	1905	1 – 0
25/3		Dreyer, Mathieu (w)	1691	–		Neufcourt, Leo (b)	0	0 – 1
25/4		Lambert, Romain (b)	0	–		Proto, Victor (w)	0	0 – 1
Bo.	54	Sodern	Rtg	–	48	CSE FORSEE POWER	Rtg	0 : 4
26/1		Goujon, Antoine (w)	1933	–		Le Marquer, Pierre (b)	1904	0 – 1
26/2		Pascal, Guillaume (b)	0	–		Benkaci, Samir (w)	1730	– – +
26/3		Ricome, Juliette (w)	0	–		Benkaci, Massin (b)	1668	– – +
26/4		Genestier, David (b)	0	–		Marmion, Simon (w)	0	– – +
Bo.	57	QRT 2	Rtg	–	55	DALKIA	Rtg	0 : 4
27/1		Lovichi, Louis (w)	0	–		Nolot, Clementine (b)	1955	– – +
27/2		Tomarchio, Ferdinand (b)	0	–		Atrad, Amine (w)	0	0 – 1
27/3		Guennoun, Hamza (w)	0	–		Dino, Launy (b)	0	0 – 1
27/4		Ettachfini, Yassine (b)	0	–		Azzouzi, Mohamed (w)	0	– – +
Bo.	50	EuropChess 2	Rtg	–	56	PwC FRANCE	Rtg	2½:1½
28/1		Vijups, Dans (w)	1862	–		Blanchard, Paul (b)	1834	½ – ½
28/2		Hinkel, Kira (b)	1669	–		Goldet, Batiste (w)	0	0 – 1
28/3		Gatta, Bruno (w)	1617	–		Tukhvatullina, Kamila (b)	0	1 – 0
28/4		Kausa, Inese (b)	0	–		Boudonnet-Valerius, Nathalien (w)	0	1 – 0