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Vincent Keymer | My Way to Chess Grandmaster
Double gold for Russia at the European Team Championship! 🥇🥇

Men's team scored 15 points, women's 16 points to solely win the championship in Batumi.

🥈 Ukraine, 🥉 England in the open section;
🥈 Georgia, 🥉 Azerbaijan in the women's.

Congratulations! 👏👏 #ETCC2019
Russia, Ukraine, England - this is the pedestal of the European Team Championship 2019. And it was exactly the same 27 years ago, in 1992!

The first board of Ukraine was... Vassily Ivanchuk! And Michael Adams played on the third board for England.
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In the last round of the European team championship, Baadur Jobava allowed Anish Giri to escape with a draw from a very difficult position.
Wesley So defeats Magnus Carlsen 13.5 - 2.5 to become the first official FIDE Fischer Random World Champion. (photo by L. Ootes)

Congrats on a crushing victory! #frchess

Congrats also to Ian Nepomniachtchi on beating Fabiano Caruana in their match for the 3rd place.