European Rapid and Blitz (Katowice)

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Christopher Kreuzer
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European Rapid and Blitz (Katowice)

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Tue Dec 19, 2017 12:26 am

This event, the European Rapid and Blitz Championships, was held in Katowice, Poland.

Both events had over 1000 players!

Luke McShane came second in the blitz event.

Chessbase report here:

https://en.chessbase.com/post/european- ... 7-katowice

Pictures from the closing ceremony here:

http://www.katowice2017.eu/en/multimedi ... g-ceremony

Pictures of Luke with his 1000 euros prize:

1, 2.

They also got a: red box and bags of some coffee called Mokate.

(Google Mokate and chess for more details)

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Re: European Rapid and Blitz (Katowice)

Post by Mick Norris » Tue Dec 19, 2017 7:47 am

Lawrence Trent and Andy Horton among the English players at the Blitz

Rapid featured Luke, Andy & Lorin D'Costa ENG
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