Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu is new European Champion

The Sixth European Individual Chess Championship, a 13-round Swiss tournament, is being held from June 17 to July 3, 2005, in Warsaw, Poland. The rate of play is 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 15 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per a move, starting from move 1.

The winner and new European Champion is Romanian Grandmaster Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. He scored 7 wins and 6 draws to grab uncontested first place.


Nisipeanu,Liviu Dieter (2670) - Milov,Vadim (2653)
25.06.2005.
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