9th round Open Section In the last round we could see 4 quick draws on the match Slovakia – Croatia which meant the later one won the event with 15 match points. It was a well-deserved victory – Croatia played very balanced all the way through the tournament and managed to lose only 2 games […]

8th round Open Section In the penultimate round Croatia collected one more match victory, this time a 3:1 against Slovenia. Since their closest rival, Hungary, lost against France 2½:1½, they even increased their lead to 2 match points with only one round to go. Keeping in mind they are playing Slovakia in the last round […]

7th round Open Section Croatia once again kept his lead after a 3:1 victory over Germany. Unfortunately for them all the teams having chance for catching up won too – Hungary is still 1 match point behind after a 2½:1½ win against Austria, while Czech Republic and France are both 2 match points apart from […]

6th round Open Section Approaching the finish of the tournament the fight seems to be intensifying. It took more than 4,5 hours for the first team match to be concluded. Probably most importantly Croatia won against Italy 3 to 1 and with that they maintained their 1 point lead with 10 match points. Hungary also […]

5th round Open Section Croatia is still on the top with 8 match points after 5 rounds. They managed to maintain their one point lead over Czech Republic after playing 2:2 against them. But this gave the opportunity for Hungary to catch up with the Czechs (both team is on 7 match point) by beating […]

4th round Open Section In the 4th round there were a surprisingly low number of decisive games – 5 altogether. That made all those wins very important. The solid Croatia scored another significant win over France thanks to Tica beating Gozzoli on board 4 while all the other games are being draws. Tica has 4 […]