Mediterranean Chess Championship

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Leading chess players from the Mediterranean Chess Association member nations, and invited guest participants, are allowed to play in the Mediterranean Chess Championship.[1] The Mediterranean Chess Association was established at the 73rd FIDE Congress in Bled, Slovenia and registered with FIDE as an affiliated international chess organization.[2][3] There was no Mediterranean Chess Championship event held for 2010, 2011 and 2013.

Mediterranean Chess Champions

# Year City Men's Champion Women's Champion
1 2003 Beirut File:Flag of Greece.svg Spyrios Kapnisis (Greece) File:Flag of France.svg Silvia Collas (France)
2 2004 Antalya File:Flag of Turkey.svg Mert Erdoğdu (Turkey) File:Flag of Slovenia.svg Vesna Rožič (Slovenia)
3 2005* Kemer File:Flag of Turkey.svg Suat Atalık (Turkey) File:Flag of Turkey.svg Ekaterina Atalık (Turkey)
4 2006* Cannes File:Flag of Turkey.svg Suat Atalık (Turkey) File:Flag of Greece.svg Yelena Dembo (Greece)
5 2007 Sousse File:Flag of Croatia.svg Darko Dorić (Croatia) File:Flag of Montenegro.svg Ljilja Drljevic (Montenegro)
6 2008* Antalya File:Flag of Greece.svg Ioannis Georgiadis (Greece) File:Flag of Montenegro.svg Jovana Vojinovic (Montenegro)
7 2009 Rijeka File:Flag of Egypt.svg Ahmed Adly (Egypt) File:Flag of Greece.svg Anna-Maria Botsari (Greece)
8 2012* Beirut File:Flag of Syria.svg Jwan Bakr (Syria) File:Flag of Greece.svg Ekaterini Pavlidou (Greece)
9 2014 Chania File:Flag of Egypt.svg Bassem Amin (Egypt) File:Flag of Egypt.svg Mona Khaled (Egypt)[4]
10 2015 Beirut File:Flag of Egypt.svg Ahmed Adly (Egypt) File:Flag of France.svg Sophie Milliet (France)[5]

*Note: Organized in the beginning of the following year.

References

  1. Mediterranean Chess Association Archived 2013-10-30 at archive.today Official webpage
  2. Press Release #1 Mediterranean Chess Association
  3. Mediterranean Chess Association Archived 2013-10-31 at the Wayback Machine Affiliated International Organizations, www.fide.com
  4. "GM Bassem Amin lifts Mediterranean trophy on his birthday". Chessdom. 2014-09-11. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  5. 10th Mediterranean Individual Championships 2015 - Beirut – Lebanon Chess-Results