The sixth round was played today at the European Team Chess Championship 2025, and Ukraine and Poland kept their sole lead in the Open and Women’s sections (respectively).
Ukraine scored a narrow victory against France today, thanks to GM Igor Kovalenko’s (UKR, 2669) win over GM Pierre Laurent-Paoli (FRA, 2570). GM Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR, 2633) had a nice chance to win the game against GM Marc’Andria Maurizzi (FRA, 2624) but missed the motive to transpose into winning pawns endgame, and the game finished in a draw. The games on the second and fourth boards were very solid, and ended in draws.
Netherlands was victorious against Serbia, and scored a convincing 3-1 win to trail Ukraine by one match point. GM Anish Giri (NED, 2759) defeated GM Alexandr Predke (SRB, 2634), and GM Jorden Van Foreest (NED, 2697) outplayed GM Alexey Sarana (SRB, 2661). The games on the last two boards finished in draws.
Poland’s Women’s team extended their lead in the Women’s event, and now has the edge of three match points. Poland scored a win against Georgia 1 today, and the match finished with the 3-1 result. IM Alina Kashlinskaya (POL, 2450) scored against GM Nana Dzagnidze (GEO, 2496), and IM Aleksandra Maltsevskaya (POL, 2394) defeated GM Nino Batsiashvili (GEO, 2469). The games on the third and fourth boards were drawn.
Poland is now followed by three teams with the score of 9 match points each: Germany, Ukraine, and Romania.
Tomorrow is the free day, and the 7th round starts on 12th of October at 15:00 (local time).
All results, rankings and pairings can be found here.
Photo gallery by ECU can be found here
Live video broadcast of the games with commentaries by GM Alojzije Jankovic and WGM Keti Tsatsalashvili can be found on the ECU TV platform or ECU YouTube channel.