# 2018 European championships international draughts

The 2018 European championships of international draughts were held from 16 to 22 December in Moscow, Russia, over 9 rounds Swiss-system tournament. There were 55 participants from 14 countries, including 17 grandmasters, 9 international masters and 15 masters of the FMJD. Competitions was at classic format and at superblitz. 6 sportsmen qualified for WC 2019.
The winner was 18-years-old Michael Semyaniuk from Belarus, silver was for Alexander Georgiev from the Russia, third was Martijn van IJzendoorn from the Netherlands.

## Classic tournament
### Rules and regulations

Participants played Swiss-system tournament with 9 rounds. To define the places with equal points used of Solkoff truncated coefficient. Time control was 1 hour 20 minutes plus a minute per move.

### Final standings

Qualified for WC 2019
| Place | Name | Country | Title | Rating | Points | TSolk |
| 1 | Michael Semyaniuk | Belarus | MI | 2148 | 13 | 90 |
| 2 | Alexander Georgiev | Russia | GMI | 2418 | 13 | 84 |
| 3 | Martijn van IJzendoorn | Netherlands | GMI | 2397 | 12 | 89 |
| 4 | Evgeni Vatutin | Belarus | GMI | 2319 | 12 | 87 |
| 5 | Nicolay Germogenov | Russia | MI | 2299 | 11 | 89 81(-1) |
| 6 | Jitse Slump | Netherlands | MI | 2271 | 11 | 89 79(-1) |
| 7 | Alexander Getmanski | Russia | GMI | 2374 | 11 | 88 |
| 8 | Alexei Chizhov | Russia | GMI | 2406 | 11 | 83 |
| 9 | Ivan Trofimov | Russia | MI | 2342 | 11 | 81 73(-1) |
| 10 | Alexander Baljakin | Netherlands | GMI | 2412 | 11 | 81 72(-1) |
| 11 | Jan Groenendijk | Netherlands | MI | 2376 | 11 | 80 |
| 12 | Sergey Belosheev | Russia | | 2262 | 11 | 79 |
| 13 | Vladimir Traitelovich | Israel | MI | B 2356 | 10 | 89 |
| 14 | Guntis Valneris | Latvia | GMI | 2379 | 10 | 84 |
| 15 | Aynur Shaybakov | Russia | GMI | 2350 | 10 | 82 75(-1) |
| 16 | Ron Heusdens | Netherlands | GMI | 2355 | 10 | 82 73(-1) |
| 16 | Alexander Bulatov | Belarus | GMI | 2278 | 10 | 82 |
| 18 | Jos Stokkel | Netherlands | GMI | 2304 | 10 | 80 |
| 19 | Wouter Sipma | Netherlands | GMI | 2332 | 10 | 77 69(-1) 61(-2) 53(-3) |
| 20 | Nikolai Gulyaev | Russia | MI | 2307 | 10 | 77 69(-1) 61(-2) 52(-3) |
| 21 | Kevin Machtelinck | France | GMI | 2273 | 10 | 76 |
| 22 | Vladzislav Valjuk | Belarus | MF | 2218 | 10 | 72 65(-1) |
| 23 | Anatolyi Protodyakonov | Russia | MF | 2137 | 10 | 72 64(-1) |
| 24 | Edvardas Bužinskis | Lithuania | GMI | 2307 | 10 | 71 |
| 25 | Wouter Wolff | Netherlands | MI | 2332 | 10 | 70 |
| 26 | Aleksej Domchev | Lithuania | GMI | 2316 | 9 | 80 |
| 27 | Murodoullo Amrillaev | Russia | GMI | 2339 | 9 | 79 71(-1) 62(-2) 53(-3) |
| 28 | Sergei Kalinov | Russia | MF | B 2281 | 9 | 79 71(-1) 62(-2) 52(-3) |
| 29 | Alexander Verkhovykh | Russia | MI | 2236 | 9 | 79 70(-1) |
| 30 | Alessio Scaggiante | Italy | MF | 2174 | 9 | 78 |
| 31 | Vasily Kytchkin | Russia | MF | 2249 | 9 | 75 67(-1) 59(-2) 40(-3) 32(-4) |
| 32 | Kirill Chulkov | Russia | MF | 2214 | 9 | 75 67(-1) 59(-2) 40(-3) 31(-4) |
| 33 | Koos van Amerongen | Netherlands | MF | 2181 | 9 | 74 |
| 34 | Villem Lüüs | Estonia | MF | 2144 | 9 | 69 |
| 35 | Aleksandr Surkov | Russia | MF | 2153 | 9 | 68 |
| 36 | Raphael Zdoroviak | Germany | MF | 2078 | 9 | 67 |
| 37 | Daniil Ilin | Russia | CMF | 2120 | 8 | 81 |
| 38 | Daniele Macali | Italy | MF | 2156 | 8 | 77 |
| 39 | Valery Kudriavcev | Lithuania | MF | 2211 | 8 | 75 67(-1) 59(-2) |
| 40 | Piotr Paluch | Poland | MF | 2080 | 8 | 75 67(-1) 58(-2) |
| 41 | Aleksei Bolshakov | Russia | | B 1957 | 8 | 73 |
| 42 | Oleksandr Zhygalin | Ukraine | | 2033 | 8 | 72 |
| 43 | Oscar Lognon | France | MI | 2280 | 8 | 70 63(-1) |
| 44 | Tamerlan Akhmerov | Russia | CMF | 2082 | 8 | 70 62(-1) |
| 45 | Patrick Casaril | Belgium | MF | 2135 | 8 | 67 |
| 46 | Vaclav Marek | Czech Republic | | 1941 | 8 | 65 |
| 47 | Anatoli Tatarenko | Russia | MF | 2179 | 7 | 74 |
| 48 | Dmitry Valikov | Russia | | B 1977 | 7 | 70 |
| 49 | Vasiliy Markin | Russia | | 1923 | 7 | 68 |
| 50 | Arslan Akhmetzyanov | Russia | | B 1999 | 7 | 62 |
| 51 | Anton Kucherenko | Russia | CMF | 1953 | 7 | 59 |
| 52 | Viacheslav Vasiliev | Russia | | 0 | 7 | 57 |
| 53 | Jaroslav Novotny | Czech Republic | | 1927 | 6 | 62 |
| 54 | Denis Karataev | Russia | | 1928 | 6 | 61 |
| 55 | Tikhon Matiashov | Russia | | 0 | 3 | 59 |
GMI — international grandmaster
MI — international master
MF — master FMJD
CMF — candidat master FMJD

## Superblitz tournament
### Rules and regulations

Participants played Swiss-system tournament with 7 rounds. To define the places with equal points used of Solkoff truncated coefficient. Time control was 5 minutes plus 2 seconds per move. There were 46 participants from 7 countries, including 8 grandmasters, 5 international masters and 12 masters of the FMJD.

### Final standings

| Place | Name | Country | Title | Rating | Points | TSolk |
| 1 | Aynur Shaybakov | Russia | GMI | 2370 | 14 | 58 |
| 2 | Alexander Georgiev | Russia | GMI | 2436 | 12 | 58 |
| 3 | Murodoullo Amrillaev | Russia | GMI | 2381 | 10 | 62 |
| 4 | Vladzislav Valjuk | Belarus | MF | 2269 | 10 | 58 |
| 5 | Ivan Trofimov | Russia | MI | 2277 | 10 | 58 |
| 6 | Wouter Sipma | Netherlands | GMI | 2290 | 10 | 56 |
| 7 | Alexander Getmanski | Russia | GMI | 2394 | 10 | 56 |
| 8 | Alexei Chizhov | Russia | GMI | 2464 | 10 | 54 |
| 9 | Sergey Belosheev | Russia | | 2345 | 10 | 54 |
| 10 | Koos van Amerongen | Netherlands | MF | 2211 | 10 | 48 |
| 11 | Alessio Scaggiante | Italy | MF | 2195 | 10 | 42 |
| 12 | Vasily Kytchkin | Russia | MF | 2295 | 8 | 54 |
| 13 | Daniil Ilin | Russia | CMF | 2202 | 8 | 54 |
| 14 | Nikolai Gulyaev | Russia | MI | 2363 | 8 | 52 |
| 15 | Anatolyi Protodyakonov | Russia | MF | 2202 | 8 | 52 |
| 16 | Kevin Machtelinck | France | MI | 2143 | 8 | 50 |
| 17 | Nicolay Germogenov | Russia | MI | 2299 | 8 | 48 |
| 18 | Vladzislauр Splendzer | Belarus | MF | 2146 | 8 | 48 |
| 19 | Michae Semyaniuk | Belarus | MI | 2160 | 8 | 48 |
| 20 | Oscar Lognon | France | MI | 2296 | 8 | 46 |
| 21 | Sergei Kalinov | Russia | MF | 2315 | 8 | 46 |
| 22 | Aleksei Bolshakov | Russia | | B 2035 | 8 | 42 |
| 23 | Daniele Macali | Italy | MF | 2124 | 6 | 54 |
| 24 | Savva Zaika | Russia | CMF | 2120 | 6 | 50 |
| 25 | Jos Stokkel | Netherlands | GMI | 2249 | 6 | 46 |
| 26 | Aleksandr Surkov | Russia | MF | 2136 | 6 | 46 |
| 27 | Grigoriy Pismenny | Russia | | 2239 | 6 | 46 |
| 28 | Kiril Dublin | Russia | | 1947 | 6 | 44 |
| 29 | Alexander Rastegaev | Russia | | В 2079 | 6 | 44 |
| 30 | Tamerlan Akhmerov | Russia | CMF | 2108 | 6 | 42 |
| 31 | Artem Vorobyev | Russia | | С 2056 | 6 | 40 |
| 32 | Villem Lüüs | Estonia | MF | 2159 | 6 | 38 |
| 33 | Ruslan Peshcherov | Russia | | 2122 | 6 | 36 |
| 34 | Anatoli Tatarenko | Russia | MF | 2220 | 6 | 36 |
| 35 | Arslan Akhmetzyanov | Russia | | 1918 | 6 | 36 |
| 36 | Dmitry Valikov | Russia | | 2100 | 6 | 34 |
| 37 | Evgeni Viaznikov | Russia | | В 2118 | 4 | 46 |
| 38 | Patrick Casaril | Belgium | MF | 2142 | 4 | 38 |
| 39 | Maxim Kozlovsky | Russia | | 0 | 4 | 36 |
| 40 | Toumabouna Makela | Russia | | 0 | 4 | 34 |
| 41 | Ilia Dashunin | Russia | | 1900 | 4 | 34 |
| 42 | Viktor Egorov | Russia | | 0 | 4 | 34 |
| 43 | Vasiliy Markin | Russia | | 1927 | 4 | 32 |
| 44 | Mikhail Abramov | Russia | | 0 | 4 | 30 |
| 45 | Andrey Gavrilov | Russia | | 0 | 2 | 32 |
| 46 | Denis Karataev | Russia | | 1900 | 0 | 28 |