Artemiev Wins European Championship on Tiebreak
Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 11:13PM
Dennis Monokroussos in 2019 European Championship, Nils Grandelius, Vladislav Artemiev

Both Vladislav Artemiev and Nils Grandelius finished the 2019 European Individual Chess Championship ("just the facts" here) with 8.5/11, but Artemiev's tiebreaks were better and he took first. Nine players finished half a point behind them, and the top 22 overall automatically qualified for the World Cup later this year.

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