The European club team cups have ended in the Italian town of San Vincent. 48 teams took part in the men's competition, which was held for the 21st time, and 11 in the tenth women's edition. Ukrainian teams did not participate in the continental forum, but 12 of our compatriots played for clubs from other countries as legionnaires.
The best among the Ukrainians was Vasyl Ivanchuk, who played for "Polonia" from Warsaw. Playing on board two (the Poles were led by Boris Gelfand from Israel), Vasyl showed the highest result among all participants in the tournament: five wins and two draws, for which he was deemed worthy of an award of 1,200 euros.
Largely thanks to Ivanchuk's successful play, the Polish chess players fell just half a point behind the winners — the Russian team from Tomsk. In third place was the champion of the last two years, Paris NAO. The French club — the richest on the continent — featured the world champion in classical chess, Russian Vladimir Kramnik, and 15-year-old Ukrainian Serhiy Karjakin. The Simferopol schoolboy has five points from six games. In addition to gold medals, the new Cup holders received 7,200 euros, the silver medalists — 3,600, and the bronze medalists — 2,700.