Mediterranean Chess Championship

Leading chess players from the Mediterranean Chess Association member nations, and invited guest participants, are allowed to play in the Mediterranean Chess Championship.[1] The Mediterranean Chess Association was established at the 73rd FIDE Congress in Bled, Slovenia and registered with FIDE as an affiliated international chess organization.[2][3]

There was no Mediterranean Chess Championship event held for 2010, 2011 and 2013.

Mediterranean Chess Champions
#YearCityMen's ChampionWomen's Champion
12003Beirut Spyrios Kapnisis (Greece) Silvia Collas (France)
22004Antalya Mert Erdoğdu (Turkey) Vesna Rožič (Slovenia)
32005*Kemer Suat Atalık (Turkey) Ekaterina Atalık (Turkey)
42006*Cannes Suat Atalık (Turkey) Yelena Dembo (Greece)
52007Sousse Darko Dorić (Croatia) Ljilja Drljevic (Montenegro)
62008*Antalya Ioannis Georgiadis (Greece) Jovana Vojinovic (Montenegro)
72009Rijeka Ahmed Adly (Egypt) Anna-Maria Botsari (Greece)
82012*Beirut Jwan Bakr (Syria) Ekaterini Pavlidou (Greece)
92014Chania Bassem Amin (Egypt) Mona Khaled (Egypt)[4]
102015Beirut Ahmed Adly (Egypt) Sophie Milliet (France)[5]

*Note: Organized in the beginning of the following year.

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References
  1. Mediterranean Chess Association Archived 2013-10-30 at Archive.today Official webpage
  2. Press Release #1 Mediterranean Chess Association
  3. Mediterranean Chess Association Archived 2013-10-31 at the Wayback Machine Affiliated International Organizations, www.fide.com
  4. "GM Bassem Amin lifts Mediterranean trophy on his birthday". Chessdom. 2014-09-11. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  5. 10th Mediterranean Individual Championships 2015 - Beirut – Lebanon Chess-Results


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