ChessKid European Team Festival: The Grand Final Is Coming Soon
On Wednesday, January 4 at 6 a.m. PT / 3 p.m. CET, ChessKids from this year's top 10 teams will face each other in the Grand Final of the ChessKid European Team Festival.Join us to watch the culmination of this great and long-running tournament at Chess.com/tv or twitch.tv/chesskid for commentary by some very special guests!
The ChessKid European Team Festival began in January 2022, and has so far featured 9 stages, in which over 30 countries took part. Each team showed a great will to win alongside a high level of play, so this final battle between all the group winners should be incredibly exciting! All players will face off over five rounds of G10+5 with the winning team being crowned the ChessKid European Team Festival Champs!
Here are the winners from all the previous stages of the tournament:
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Division |
Date |
Teams |
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Region 1 |
January |
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland |
|
Region 2 |
February |
Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia |
|
Region 3 |
March |
Albania, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey |
|
Region 4 |
April |
France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxemburg |
|
Region 5 |
June |
Ukrainian League: Kids vs GMs |
|
Region 6 |
June |
Portugal, Greece, Italy, Spain |
|
Region 7 |
August |
Slovenia, Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia |
|
Region 8 |
September |
Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark |
|
Region 9 |
November |
England, Ireland, Netherlands, Scotland, Israel |
In addition to Latvia, Slovakia, Turkey, France, Ukraine, Portugal, Serbia, Iceland and Israel, Sweden will take part in the grand final as a wildcard entry, alongside Estonia and Scotland due to their excellent team spirit and performance in their respective rounds.
The Grand Final will be held during the Rilton Cup in Stockholm. Excitingly, Sweden has informed us that their entire team will play from the Rilton Cup venue, the Scandic Continental. We can imagine that this unique experience will motivate the Swedish team even more!
Team Croatia also played from the same venue during one of the earlier stages of the tournament.
At the end of the tournament, all participants will receive electronic certificates of participation. The winning team will also receive electronic diplomas and a cup. Each player from the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd placed teams will also receive a ChessKid box containing surprise prizes from the ChessKid shop!
Special guests have appeared during all stages of the tournament... who will show up for the finals?
ChessKid wishes all of the participants good luck! And, dear readers, we advise you to set a reminder to make sure you don't miss this exciting conclusion to the tournament!
Join us at Chess.com/TV or twitch.tv/chesskid for commentary with FunMasterMike and our special guests!