It's quite the event, too, as the participant list includes (in no particular order) Svidler, Grischuk, Morozevich, Nepomniachtchi, Ivanchuk, Eljanov, Radjabov, Caruana, Gashimov, Mamedyarov, Aronian, Movsesian, Leko, Bacrot, Vachier-Lagrave, Topalov, Adams, Short, Giri, Navara, Shirov and plenty of other 2700s and near-2700s. It started today and runs through next Friday, November 11; a nine-round event with 38 countries fighting it out for European honors in Porto Carras, Greece.
There will be plenty of great chess there, and it should to a marvelous job of tiding us over to the Tal Memorial (Carlsen, Anand, Aronian, Kramnik, Karjakin, Ivanchuk, Nakamura, Gelfand, Svidler and Nepomniachtchi) on November 16.