Leading chess players from the Mediterranean Chess Association member nations, and invited guest participants, are allowed to play in the Mediterranean Chess Championship.[1] The Mediterranean Chess Association was established at the 73rd FIDE Congress in Bled, Slovenia and registered with FIDE as an affiliated international chess organization.[2][3]
There was no Mediterranean Chess Championship event held for 2010, 2011 and 2013.
Mediterranean Chess Champions
edit# Year City Men's Champion Women's Champion 1 2003 Beirut 
Spyrios Kapnisis (Greece)
Silvia Collas (France)
2 2004 Antalya 
Mert Erdoğdu (Turkey)
Vesna Rožič (Slovenia)
3 2005* Kemer Suat Atalık (Turkey) Ekaterina Atalık (Turkey)
4 2006* Cannes Suat Atalık (Turkey) Yelena Dembo (Greece)
5 2007 Sousse 
Darko Dorić (Croatia)
Ljilja Drljevic (Montenegro)
6 2008* Antalya Ioannis Georgiadis (Greece) Jovana Vojinovic (Montenegro)
7 2009 Rijeka 
Ahmed Adly (Egypt) Anna-Maria Botsari (Greece)
8 2012* Beirut 
Jwan Bakr (Syria) Ekaterini Pavlidou (Greece)
9 2014 Chania Bassem Amin (Egypt) Mona Khaled (Egypt)[4]
10 2015 Beirut Ahmed Adly (Egypt) Sophie Milliet (France)[5]
*Note: Organized in the beginning of the following year.
References
edit- ^ Mediterranean Chess Association Archived 2013-10-30 at archive.today Official webpage
- ^ Press Release #1 Mediterranean Chess Association
- ^ Mediterranean Chess Association Archived 2013-10-31 at the Wayback Machine Affiliated International Organizations, www.fide.com
- ^ "GM Bassem Amin lifts Mediterranean trophy on his birthday". Chessdom. 2014-09-11. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
- ^ 10th Mediterranean Individual Championships 2015 - Beirut – Lebanon Chess-Results
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