Mediterranean Chess Championship is a Swiss tournament organized by the Mediterranean Chess Association member nations (MCA) and opened for the chess players who are the members of the association.[1] MCA was established at the 73rd FIDE Congress in Bled, Slovenia and registered with FIDE as an affiliated international chess organization.[2][3]

The winner of the tournament are declared the Champion of the Mediterranean Championship 2023, while the best placed female are declared Mediterranean Women Champion 2023.[4]

History

The 11th Mediterranean Chess Championship was held in 2021 in Petrovac, Montenegro, sharing the venue and the prize fund with European School Chess Individual Cup. The time controls were set at 90 minutes per player for 40 moves, plus 15 minutes until the end of the game, with increment of 40 seconds for each move, starting from move one. The event's total prize fund 10,500 Euros, including the Champion prize of 1,200 Euros.[5]

In 2023, MCA partnered with the Catalan and Spanish Chess Federations, organizing the 13th Mediterranean Chess Championships 2023. The tournament was held in hotel La Terrassa in Platja d'Aro, Catalonia, from November 3 to November 11, 2023. It was played using time control of 90 minutes per player with a bonus of 30 seconds for each move played, starting from move one.[4]

Mediterranean Chess Champions

{| class="sortable wikitable"

! # !! Year !! City !! Men's Champion !! Women's Champion |- | 1 || 2003 || Beirut || Spyrios Kapnisis (Greece) || Silvia Collas (France) |- | 2 || 2004 || Antalya || Mert Erdoğdu (Turkey) || Vesna Rožič (Slovenia) |- | 3 || 2005* || Kemer || Suat Atalık (Turkey) || Ekaterina Atalık (Turkey) |- | 4 || 2006* || Cannes || Suat Atalık (Turkey) || Yelena Dembo (Greece) |- | 5 || 2007 || Sousse || Darko Dorić (Croatia) || Ljilja Drljevic (Montenegro) |- | 6 || 2008* || Antalya || Ioannis Georgiadis (Greece) || Jovana Vojinovic (Montenegro) |- | 7 || 2009 || Rijeka || Ahmed Adly (Egypt) || Anna-Maria Botsari (Greece) |- | 8 || 2012* || Beirut || Jwan Bakr (Syria) || Ekaterini Pavlidou (Greece) |- | 9 || 2014 || Chania || Bassem Amin (Egypt) || Mona Khaled (Egypt)[6] |- | 10 || 2015 || Beirut || Ahmed Adly (Egypt) || Sophie Milliet (France)[7] |- | 11 || 2021 || Petrovac || Ivan Saric (Croatia) || Stavroula Tsolakidou (Greece)[8] |- | 12 || 2022 || Cairo || Dimitris Alexakis (Greece) || Haritomeni Markantonaki (Greece)[9] |- | 13 || 2023 || Platja d'Aro || Gines Esteo Pedro Antonio (Spain) || Makka Evanthia (Greece)[10] |} *Note: Organized in the beginning of the following year.

References

  1. ^ "Mediterranean Chess Association". medchess.com. Archived 2013-10-30 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ "Press Release #1". medchess.com
  3. ^ "Mediterranean Chess Association". fide.com. Archived 2013-10-31 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ^ "Mediterranean Chess Championship Catalonia 2023". feda.org. Retrieved January 2, 2025.
  5. ^ "Mediterranean Chess Championship Kicked Off". europechess.com. June 20, 2021.
  6. ^ "GM Bassem Amin lifts Mediterranean trophy on his birthday". Chessdom. 2014-09-11. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  7. ^ "10th Mediterranean Individual Championships 2015 - Beirut – Lebanon". Chess-Results
  8. ^ "11th Mediterranean Chess Championship for Men and Women". Chess-Results
  9. ^ "12th Mediterranean Chess Championship 2022". Chess-Results
  10. ^ "13th Mediterranean Men and Women Championships 2023". Chess-Results