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"Samaia" Finished in the Middle of Schedule

At European Chess Club Cup, Georgian chess club "Samaia" collected 9 points within 7 rounds and took the 6th place among 12 participants.
In the last round of the tournament, held in the city of Bulgaria, Plovdiv, Georgian women beat Beograd BAS 2.5:1.5 and finally, they were one point behind champion "Monte Carlo".
In the decisive match, Salome Melia (2439) beat Irina Chelushkina (2325) with black pieces, Lela Javakhishvili (2451), Nino Khurtsidze (2435) and Bela Khotenashvili (2464) played draws.
Like Armenian "MIKA", Russian "Giprorechtrans" and AVS, "Samaia" collected 9 points. But according to the additional data, "Samaia" was behind them and finally, took the 6th place.
Russian "Economist" won men's championship with 13 points. The club was No.4 seed. As for Ukrainian "Chernigiv" of Baadur Jobava (2710), it took the 3rd place with 11 points. Baadur played 5 matches and collected only 2 points.
Tornike Sanikidze (2564) played on the first board of Luxembourger "Differdange". He collected 3 points within 7 rounds. Luxembourgers took the 44th place among 49 participants. No.1 seed Azerbaijani "SOCAR" took the 4th place.

The 15th European Chess Club Cup among women. Plovdiv (Bulgaria). October 16-24
Last round
"Samaia" (Georgia, 4) - BAS (Serbia, 7) 2.5:1.5

Lela Javakhishvili (2451) – Inna Gaponenko (2469) 0.5:0.5
Irina Chelushkina (2325) – Salome Melia (2439) 0:1
Nino Khurtsidze (2435) – Tatjana Vasilevich (2399) 0.5:0.5
Ljilja Drljevic (2273) – Bela Khotenashvili (2464) 0.5:0.5

”Monte Carlo” (Monaco, 1) – AVS (Russia, 2) 2:2
”Giprorechtrans” (Russia, 6) – ”St.Petersburg ” (Russia, 3)
”Lokomotiv 2000” (Bulgaria, 11) – ”MIKA” (Armenia, 5)
”Volksbank Halle” (Germany, 8) – ”Oslo” (Norway, 14) 2.5:1.5
“Komarno” (Slovakia, 13) – “Herzliya ” (Israel, 12) 1:3
“Ashdod” (Israel, 9) – “Fischer Chieti” (Italy, 10) 2.5:1.5

Tournament situation
10 – ”Monte Carlo”, ”St.Petersburg”;
9 – ”MIKA”, ”GiprorechtransAVS, ”Samaia”;
8 – ”Volksbank Halle”;
7 – ”Lokomotiv 2000”, ”Herzliya”;
6 – BAS, ”Ashdod”;
4 – “Fischer Chieti”;
2 – ”Komarno”, ”Oslo”;

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