Category: NATO Chess Championship

  • NATO Blitz Arena – Results

    Final Ranking

    1. Alexandros PAPASIMAKOPOULOS (Greece)
    2. IM Anastasios PAVLIDIS (Greece)
    3. Darius SYCZ (Poland)
    4. Radu-Niculin CHIMA (Romania)
    5. FM Ovidiu-Jean LUPU (Romania)
    6. Simeon ONUT (Romania)
    7. Martins IVBULIS (Latvia)
    8. Igor MESTEK (Slovenia)
    9. Stefan HANSEN (Denmark)
    10. WIM Ekaterini PAVLIDOU (Greece)
    11. Damian GRACZYK (Poland)
    12. Andreas NIKOMANIS (Greece)
    13. Jan Mose NIELSEN (Denmark)
    14. Ulrich BOHN (Germany)
    15. Matjaz PIRS (Slovenia)
    16. Matej KERSIC (Slovenia)
    17. Iulian MIHAILOV (Romania)
    18. Ionel LUCA (Romania)
    19. Vasile-Cristan BESCIU (Romania)
    20. Iulian ANGHEL (Romania)
    21. Maris NOVIKS (Latvia)
    22. Csaba CSIZMADIA (Hungary)
    23. Dimitru-Stefan PAVELESCU (Romania)
    24. Marko SAUER (Germany)
    25. Valerijs RIZIHS (Latvia)
    26. Ben VINTIOEN (Belgium)
    27. Adam LAZAR (Poland)
    28. Frazer GRAHAM (United Kingdom)
    29. Ronald WILLEN (Belgium)
    30. Erik KRUIT (The Netherlands)
    31. Mati TIKERPUU (Estonia)
    32. Steven STINIS (Belgium)
    33. Konstantinos MOUROUTIS (Greece)
    34. Kimball ROSSEEL (Belgium)
    35. Régis BELLEMARE (Canada)
    36. Pier-Alex BOUCHARD (Canada)
    37. Gert AAGAARD (Denmark)
    38. Jan SMIT (The Netherlands)
    39. Gundars MEIERS (Latvia)
    40. Janek TAMMISTO (Estonia)
    41. Eric VAN DUSEN (Canada)
    42. Alex LAMBRUSCHINI (Canada)
    43. Henri-Paul VEILLEUX (Canada)
    44. Spyros NTALAMPIRAS (Greece)
    45. Lesley MERTENS (Belgium)
    46. Rob CROXEN (Canada)
    47. Peter PAPLER (Slovenia)
    48. FM Hans RENETTE (Belgium)
    49. Simon LANDRY-GIRARD (Canada)
    50. Guntars GRISULIS (Latvia)
    51. Sébastien TIELEMANS (Belgium)
    52. Lucien DESCHUYTENEER (Belgium)
    53. Luc CORNET (Belgium)
    54. Kristians VJAKSE (Latvia)
    55. Nikola KOVACIKOVA (Slovakia)
    56. Margus TRUU (Estonia)
    57. Uldis LOCANS (Latvia)
    58. Nico RAMACKER (Belgium)
    59. Marcin PIETRUSZEWSKI (Poland)
    60. Marco TOSCANI (Canada)
    61. Ugis GNUTONS (Latvia)
    62. Meelis MORELL (Estonia)
    63. Mario STRBAK (Slovakia)
    64. Kris STEEN (Belgium)
    65. Janis SLAIDINS (Latvia)

    Best Player

    • Belgium
      • Ben VINTIOEN
    • Canada
      • Régis BELLEMARE
    • Denmark
      • Stefan HANSEN
    • Estonia
      • Mati TIKERPUU
    • Germany
      • Ulrich BOHN
    • Greece
      • Alexandros PAPASIMAKOPOULOS
    • Hungary
      • Csaba CSIZMADIA
    • Latvia
      • Martins IVBULIS
    • The Netherlands
      • Erik KRUIT
    • Poland
      • Darius SYCZ
    • Romania
      • Radu-Niculin CHIMA
    • Slovakia
      • Nikola KOVACIKOVA
    • Slovenia
      • Igor MESTEK
    • United Kingdom
      • Frazer GRAHAM

  • NATO Rapid Arena

    In order to entertain the relationships with our NATO Member States
  • NATO Blitz Arena

    In order to entertain the relationships with our NATO Member States
  • 31st NATO Chess Championship – Postponement

    The 31st edition of the NATO Chess Championship will be postponed to 2021 and more specifically from October 11th 2021 till October 15th 2021.

    Belgium will organize following online NATO chess activities:

    • Tuesday October 13th 2020: Blitz Tournament
    • Thursday October 15th 2020: Rapid Tournament

    Both tournaments will take place from 2000Hr to 2230Hr
    (Olson Time Zone: Europe/Brussels).

    Practical modalities for participating in these tournaments will be posted beginning of September.