The European Championship Starts Today
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 10:12AM
Dennis Monokroussos in European Individual Championship 2012

It may be an open tournament, but the European Individual Chess Championship is an extremely strong event with 15 players rated over 2700, including world #6 Fabiano Caruana. (But shouldn't he be in the U.S. Championship instead??) This 11-round Swiss starts today in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, has a rest day on the 26th, and concludes March 31.

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