ChessKid European Team Festival Results - Region 2!

Region 2 of the ChessKid European Team Festival took place on the 26 of February. In the Region 2 teams from Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Czech Republic played a friendly match with two semifinals and a final round.

Did you miss it? Catch the full replay here!

Each team fielded players from four different age groups (U8, U10, U12, and U14) and were represented by two boys and two girls.

The first semifinal was between Hungary and Slovakia and saw Slovakia win decisively with a 6.0-2.0 score. The second semifinal took place between Romania and Czech Republic. The final score was a 2.5-5.5 result that took Czech Republic to the finals.

 

FunMasterMike and IM Gabriel Grecescu commentated the Baltic Festival

 

At the finals Slovakia won over Czech Republic with a 4.5-3.5 score. There was a brief connectivity issue that nearly cost Slovakia a point, but ultimately good sportsmanship prevailed and the players were able to play their game. 

Here's one of the wins from the finals, where Nina does everything right! First she uses a fork tactic to win material, then plays "old man chess smart girl chess!" to trade into a winning ending. FunMasterMike approved of it all!

 

 

Slovakia will have the chance to play against other top teams from the ChessKid European Team Festival later this year. In additional, all players for the winning team received free year long ChessKid Gold memberships. The second place team received six month ChessKid Gold memberships, and all other players received three month memberships.

 

Team Slovakia: Winners of the Region 2 ChessKid European Team Festival

 

ChessKid thanks all the captains, as well as guest commentator IM Gabriel Grecescu.

Join us next month as the ChessKid European Team Festival continues! Our second region will see teams from Albania, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey compete. The match is scheduled for March 26th and can be viewed on our twitch.tv/chesskid and youtube.com/chesskidofficial.

See you soon!