The European Chess Club Cup is an annual
chess
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tournament for club teams from Europe. It is organised by the
European Chess Union
The European Chess Union (ECU) is an independent association for the interests of European chess.
Board members
* Zurab Azmaiparashvili – President
* Ion-Serban Dobronauteanu – Deputy President
* Finnbjorn Vang – Vice President
* Theodor ...
. The competition is held with the
Swiss system
A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format that features a fixed number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than for a round-robin tournament; thus each competitor (team or individual) does not play all the other ...
over seven rounds. It consists of two sections, open and women's, with each team fielding six and four players respectively at every match.
History
The tournament origins are from the former
Yugoslavia
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, where chess club competitions were quite popular. In 1996, the women's competition was added.
Winners
Men's event
*1954 ŠK Partizan
*1955 ŠK Partizan
*1956 ŠK Partizan
*1976 Burevestnik Moscow and Solingen SG
*1979 Burevestnik Moscow
*1982 Spartacus Budapest
*1984 Trud Moscow
*1986 CSKA Moscow
*1988 CSKA Moscow
*1990 CSKA Moscow and Solingen SG
*1992
Bayern Munich
*1993 Lyon Oyonnax
*1994
ŠK Bosna
ŠK Bosna, or Šahovski klub Bosna is a chess club from Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The club is part of the University Sport Society USD Bosna ( bs, Univerzitetsko sportsko društvo Bosna). This club has achieved considerable success ...
& Lyon Oyonnax
*1995 Yerevan city
*1996 Sberbank Tatarstan Kazan
*1997 Ladia Azov
*1998 Panfox Breda
*1999
ŠK Bosna
ŠK Bosna, or Šahovski klub Bosna is a chess club from Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The club is part of the University Sport Society USD Bosna ( bs, Univerzitetsko sportsko društvo Bosna). This club has achieved considerable success ...
*2000
ŠK Bosna
ŠK Bosna, or Šahovski klub Bosna is a chess club from Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The club is part of the University Sport Society USD Bosna ( bs, Univerzitetsko sportsko društvo Bosna). This club has achieved considerable success ...
*2001 Nikel Norilsk
*2002
ŠK Bosna
ŠK Bosna, or Šahovski klub Bosna is a chess club from Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The club is part of the University Sport Society USD Bosna ( bs, Univerzitetsko sportsko društvo Bosna). This club has achieved considerable success ...
*2003 NAO Paris
*2004 NAO Paris
*2005 Tomsk-400
*2006 Tomsk-400
*2007 Linex Magic-Mérida
*2008 Ural Sverdlovskaya oblast
*2009 Economist-SGSEU-1 Saratov
*2010 Economist-SGSEU-1 Saratov
*2011 Saint-Petersburg Chess Federation
*2012
SOCAR Azerbaijan
*2013 G-Team Nový Bor
*2014 SOCAR Azerbaijan
*2015 Siberia Novosibirsk
*2016
Alkaloid
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Skopje
*2017 Globus Russia
*2018 Mednyi Vsadnik St.Petersburg
*2019 Obiettivo Risarcimento Padova
*2021 Mednyi Vsadnik St.Petersburg
*2022 Novy Bor Chess club
Women's event
*1996 Agrouniverzal Belgrade and Merani Tbilisi
*1997 Goša Smederevska Palanka
*1998 AEM-Luxten Timişoara
*1999 Rudenko School Kherson
*2000 Agrouniverzal Belgrade
*2001 Agrouniverzal Belgrade
*2002 BAS Belgrade
*2003 Internet CG Podgorica
*2004 NTN Tbilisi
*2005 NTN Tbilisi
*2006 Mika Yerevan
*2007 CE Monte Carlo
*2008 CE Monte Carlo
*2009 Spartak Vidnoe
*2010 CE Monte Carlo
*2011 AVS
*2012 CE Monte Carlo
*2013 CE Monte Carlo
*2014 Batumi Chess Club "Nona"
*2015 Batumi Chess Club "Nona"
*2016 CE Monte Carlo
*2017 Batumi Chess Club "Nona"
*2018 CE Monte Carlo
*2019 Batumi Chess Club "Nona"
*2021 South Ural
*2022 ASVOe Pamhagen
See also
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Chess Olympiad
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European Team Chess Championship
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Russia (USSR) vs Rest of the World
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Women's Chess Olympiad
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World Team Chess Championship
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World Chess Championship
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The first event recognized as a world championship was the 1886 match ...
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World Mind Sports Games
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The i ...
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Mind Sports Organisation
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Correspondence Chess Olympiads
Ladies Correspondence C ...
References
*. ''European Club Cup 2009''.
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