European Individual Chess Championship

Apart from determining the European champions (open and women's), another objective of this tournament is to determine a number of players who qualify for the FIDE World Cup and the FIDE Women's World Cup (formerly the knockout Women's World Championship).

The European Individual Championship consists of two separate tournaments, an open event and a women's event, held at different times of the year and hosted in different cities.

Apart from the first edition in 2000, where in case of a tie the Buchholz rating was used as a tie-breaker, rapid play playoff matches are used to determine the medal winners as well as the world championship qualifiers.

There have been a number of controversies associated with the tournament: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 European Championship in Podčetrtek, Slovenia was postponed to 2022.

[6] For complete tables / results, refer to The Week in Chess website:

View of the tournament hall from the Open (Zegrze) 2005 event