Germany are Champions!

Germany: Meier and Naiditsch

After a highly-competitive event, with the 'Open' Championship living up to its name, it's tenth seed Germany who became the 2011 European Team Champions. In the last round they won against Armenia (Meier beat Movsesian) and this was just what they required to keep ahead of the pack. I can't recall any recent team events where the lead has changed hands so often! In the Women's event, Russia led from start to finish with Poland earning Silver and Georgia obtaining bronze.

The final round from the Open event:

Match/ Board	Seed/ Title	White team (on odds)	Rating	vs.	Seed/ Title	Black team (on odds)	Rating	Result
Bo.	10	Germany	Rtg	-	4	Armenia	Rtg	2½:1½
1.1	GM	Naiditsch Arkadij	2712	-	GM	Aronian Levon	2802	½ - ½
1.2	GM	Meier Georg	2659	-	GM	Movsesian Sergei	2710	1 - 0
1.3	GM	Fridman Daniel	2661	-	GM	Akopian Vladimir	2681	½ - ½
1.4	GM	Gustafsson Jan	2633	-	GM	Sargissian Gabriel	2671	½ - ½
Bo.	3	Azerbaijan	Rtg	-	17	Romania	Rtg	3 : 1
2.1	GM	Radjabov Teimour	2781	-	GM	Lupulescu Constantin	2657	½ - ½
2.2	GM	Gashimov Vugar	2757	-	GM	Parligras Mircea-Emilian	2650	1 - 0
2.3	GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	2733	-	GM	Vajda Levente	2584	1 - 0
2.4	GM	Guseinov Gadir	2636	-	GM	Marin Mihail	2534	½ - ½
Bo.	5	Hungary	Rtg	-	7	Bulgaria	Rtg	4 : 0
3.1	GM	Leko Peter	2720	-	GM	Topalov Veselin	2768	1 - 0
3.2	GM	Almasi Zoltan	2707	-	GM	Cheparinov Ivan	2650	1 - 0
3.3	GM	Balogh Csaba	2662	-	GM	Delchev Aleksander	2629	1 - 0
3.4	GM	Gyimesi Zoltan	2652	-	GM	Georgiev Kiril	2666	1 - 0
Bo.	21	Slovenia	Rtg	-	1	Russia	Rtg	1 : 3
4.1	GM	Beliavsky Alexander G	2617	-	GM	Svidler Peter	2755	½ - ½
4.2	GM	Lenic Luka	2634	-	GM	Grischuk Alexander	2752	0 - 1
4.3	GM	Borisek Jure	2541	-	GM	Karjakin Sergey	2763	0 - 1
4.4	GM	Skoberne Jure	2533	-	GM	Nepomniachtchi Ian	2730	½ - ½
Bo.	9	Netherlands	Rtg	-	12	Czech Rep.	Rtg	2½:1½
5.1	GM	Giri Anish	2714	-	GM	Navara David	2724	½ - ½
5.2	GM	Van Wely Loek	2686	-	GM	Laznicka Viktor	2703	½ - ½
5.3	GM	Smeets Jan	2615	-	GM	Hracek Zbynek	2628	½ - ½
5.4	GM	Stellwagen Daniel	2627	-	GM	Stocek Jiri	2600	1 - 0
Bo.	6	France	Rtg	-	13	Spain	Rtg	1½:2½
6.1	GM	Bacrot Etienne	2714	-	GM	Vallejo Pons Francisco	2705	½ - ½
6.2	GM	Fressinet Laurent	2700	-	GM	Shirov Alexei	2705	0 - 1
6.3	GM	Istratescu Andrei	2627	-	GM	Salgado Lopez Ivan	2621	½ - ½
6.4	GM	Bauer Christian	2641	-	GM	Illescas Cordoba Miguel	2609	½ - ½
Bo.	16	Croatia	Rtg	-	14	Poland	Rtg	1 : 3
7.1	GM	Stevic Hrvoje	2612	-	GM	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	2705	½ - ½
7.2	GM	Saric Ivan	2648	-	GM	Socko Bartosz	2635	½ - ½
7.3	GM	Palac Mladen	2580	-	GM	Bartel Mateusz	2653	0 - 1
7.4	GM	Brkic Ante	2605	-	GM	Macieja Bartlomiej	2616	0 - 1
Bo.	19	Greece	Rtg	-	22	Italy	Rtg	1½:2½
8.1	GM	Banikas Hristos	2620	-	GM	Caruana Fabiano	2727	½ - ½
8.2	GM	Mastrovasilis Dimitrios	2621	-	GM	Godena Michele	2548	½ - ½
8.3	GM	Papaioannou Ioannis	2600	-	IM	Dvirnyy Daniyyl	2475	½ - ½
8.4	GM	Halkias Stelios	2593	-	GM	Brunello Sabino	2575	0 - 1
Bo.	8	England	Rtg	-	2	Ukraine	Rtg	1½:2½
9.1	GM	Adams Michael	2734	-	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	2775	1 - 0
9.2	GM	Short Nigel D	2698	-	GM	Eljanov Pavel	2691	0 - 1
9.3	GM	Jones Gawain C B	2635	-	GM	Moiseenko Alexander	2715	½ - ½
9.4	GM	Pert Nicholas	2563	-	GM	Efimenko Zahar	2702	0 - 1
Bo.	26	Switzerland	Rtg	-	11	Israel	Rtg	1½:2½
10.1	GM	Pelletier Yannick	2581	-	GM	Sutovsky Emil	2696	½ - ½
10.2	GM	Korchnoi Viktor	2567	-	GM	Roiz Michael	2651	½ - ½
10.3	GM	Gallagher Joseph G	2500	-	GM	Smirin Ilia	2670	½ - ½
10.4	IM	Kurmann Oliver	2451	-	GM	Postny Evgeny	2640	0 - 1
Bo.	15	Georgia	Rtg	-	25	Sweden	Rtg	3 : 1
11.1	GM	Jobava Baadur	2678	-	GM	Tikkanen Hans	2586	1 - 0
11.2	GM	Pantsulaia Levan	2588	-	GM	Grandelius Nils	2543	1 - 0
11.3	GM	Mchedlishvili Mikheil	2636	-	GM	Carlsson Pontus	2502	½ - ½
11.4		Zarkua Davit	2443	-	IM	Semcesen Daniel	2490	½ - ½
Bo.	18	Serbia	Rtg	-	29	Montenegro	Rtg	2½:1½
12.1	GM	Ivanisevic Ivan	2636	-	GM	Djukic Nikola	2493	½ - ½
12.2	GM	Solak Dragan	2629	-	GM	Blagojevic Dragisa	2514	½ - ½
12.3	GM	Damljanovic Branko	2597	-	GM	Kosic Dragan	2502	1 - 0
12.4	GM	Kovacevic Aleksandar	2563	-	IM	Kalezic Blazo	2461	½ - ½
Bo.	20	Moldova	Rtg	-	23	Austria	Rtg	2½:1½
13.1	GM	Bologan Viktor	2665	-	GM	Ragger Markus	2662	1 - 0
13.2	GM	Iordachescu Viorel	2648	-	GM	Kindermann Stefan	2519	1 - 0
13.3	GM	Svetushkin Dmitry	2621	-	GM	Shengelia David	2551	0 - 1
13.4	IM	Hamitevici Vladimir	2428	-	IM	Kreisl Robert	2415	½ - ½
Bo.	27	Latvia	Rtg	-	33	Lithuania	Rtg	2 : 2
14.1	GM	Miezis Normunds	2547	-	GM	Sulskis Sarunas	2577	0 - 1
14.2	GM	Sveshnikov Evgeny	2514	-	IM	Zagorskis Darius	2497	½ - ½
14.3	IM	Neiksans Arturs	2502	-	IM	Labeckas Kestutis	2410	½ - ½
14.4	GM	Starostits Ilmars	2456	-		Klabis Rokas	2100	1 - 0
Bo.	34	Turkey	Rtg	-	31	Norway	Rtg	1½:2½
15.1	IM	Yilmaz Mustafa	2515	-	GM	Lie Kjetil A	2560	1 - 0
15.2	GM	Can Emre	2465	-	IM	Elsness Frode	2506	0 - 1
15.3	IM	Firat Burak	2393	-	GM	Johannessen Leif Erlend	2515	½ - ½
15.4	FM	Ali Marandi Cemil Can	2275	-	IM	Getz Nicolai	2369	0 - 1
Bo.	32	Iceland	Rtg	-	35	Scotland	Rtg	4 : 0
16.1	GM	Danielsen Henrik	2542	-	FM	Tate Alan	2334	1 - 0
16.2	FM	Gretarsson Hjorvar Steinn	2452	-	FM	Morrison Graham	2339	1 - 0
16.3	IM	Thorfinnsson Bjorn	2402	-	IM	Muir Andrew J	2311	1 - 0
16.4	GM	Olafsson Helgi	2531	-		Mitchell Martin	2215	1 - 0
Bo.	38	Cyprus	Rtg	-	24	Denmark	Rtg	0 : 4
17.1		Bryan-Vissi Mark	1808	-	GM	Hansen Sune Berg	2566	0 - 1
17.2		Aristotelous Vassilis	1921	-	GM	Rasmussen Allan Stig	2541	0 - 1
17.3		Boulos Vrachimis	0	-	GM	Aagaard Jacob	2522	0 - 1
17.4		Constantinou Pavlos	2068	-	IM	Glud Jakob Vang	2497	0 - 1
Bo.	28	Finland	Rtg	-	37	Luxembourg	Rtg	3½: ½
18.1	IM	Sammalvuo Tapani	2492	-	IM	Berend Fred	2381	1 - 0
18.2	IM	Agopov Mikael	2450	-		Jeitz Christian	2171	½ - ½
18.3	IM	Karttunen Mika	2434	-		Schartz Alain	2160	1 - 0
18.4	IM	Nyysti Sampsa	2345	-	WIM	Steil-Antoni Fiona	2104	1 - 0
Bo.	30	FYROM	Rtg	-	36	Wales	Rtg	4 : 0
19.1	GM	Nedev Trajko	2493	-	CM	Jones Iolo C	2282	1 - 0
19.2	IM	Colovic Aleksandar	2451	-		Kett Tim	2184	1 - 0
19.3	IM	Pancevski Filip	2442	-		Pleasants Allan J	2089	1 - 0
19.4	GM	Stanojoski Zvonko	2470	-		Young Alan	2042	1 - 0

The table of the leading teams:

Rank	Seed	Team	Games	+	=	-	Match points	Game points	Tie-Break
1	10	Germany	9	7	1	1	15	22.5	183.0
2	3	Azerbaijan	9	6	2	1	14	23.0	181.5
3	5	Hungary	9	5	3	1	13	23.0	167.5
4	4	Armenia	9	6	1	2	13	22.5	172.0
5	1	Russia	9	6	1	2	13	21.5	174.5
6	9	Netherlands	9	5	2	2	12	19.0	180.0
7	7	Bulgaria	9	5	2	2	12	18.5	187.5
8	14	Poland	9	4	3	2	11	22.0	159.0
9	17	Romania	9	5	1	3	11	20.0	163.5
10	13	Spain	9	5	1	3	11	19.5	183.0
11	22	Italy	9	5	1	3	11	19.0	164.0
12	18	Serbia	9	5	0	4	10	22.0	152.0
13	15	Georgia	9	4	2	3	10	22.0	140.5
14	11	Israel	9	4	2	3	10	20.0	170.5
15	2	Ukraine	9	4	2	3	10	19.0	172.0
16	12	Czech Rep.	9	3	4	2	10	18.5	178.0
17	21	Slovenia	9	4	2	3	10	17.5	185.0

Hungary's amazing win catapulted them into third place.

The final round from the Women's event:

Match/ Board	Seed/ Title	White team (on odds)	Rating	vs.	Seed/ Title	Black team (on odds)	Rating	Result
Bo.	1	Russia	Rtg	-	21	Austria	Rtg	3 : 1
1.1	GM	Kosintseva Nadezhda	2546	-	IM	Moser Eva	2448	½ - ½
1.2	IM	Gunina Valentina	2514	-	WIM	Kopinits Anna-Christina	2276	1 - 0
1.3	GM	Kosteniuk Alexandra	2439	-	WFM	Newrkla Katharina	2131	1 - 0
1.4	WGM	Pogonina Natalija	2451	-	WFM	Novkovic Julia	2089	½ - ½
Bo.	4	Armenia	Rtg	-	5	Poland	Rtg	2 : 2
2.1	GM	Danielian Elina	2507	-	GM	Socko Monika	2479	½ - ½
2.2	IM	Mkrtchian Lilit	2469	-	WGM	Zawadzka Jolanta	2326	0 - 1
2.3	IM	Galojan Lilit	2383	-	WGM	Majdan-Gajewska Joanna	2386	1 - 0
2.4	WGM	Kursova Maria	2315	-	WGM	Szczepkowska-Horowska Karina	2379	½ - ½
Bo.	12	France	Rtg	-	2	Ukraine	Rtg	3 : 1
3.1	IM	Milliet Sophie	2386	-	GM	Zhukova Natalia	2427	1 - 0
3.2	WGM	Maisuradze Nino	2315	-	IM	Ushenina Anna	2463	½ - ½
3.3	WGM	Guichard Pauline	2305	-	IM	Gaponenko Inna	2435	1 - 0
3.4	WGM	Leconte Maria	2282	-	IM	Muzychuk Mariya	2460	½ - ½
Bo.	9	Romania	Rtg	-	3	Georgia	Rtg	1½:2½
4.1	IM	Foisor Cristina-Adela	2418	-	GM	Dzagnidze Nana	2516	0 - 1
4.2	WGM	Cosma Elena-Luminita	2335	-	IM	Javakhishvili Lela	2475	½ - ½
4.3	WIM	Bulmaga Irina	2334	-	IM	Khurtsidze Nino	2440	1 - 0
4.4	WGM	Voicu-Jagodzinsky Carmen	2300	-	IM	Melia Salome	2392	0 - 1
Bo.	15	Israel	Rtg	-	7	Germany	Rtg	2 : 2
5.1	IM	Klinova Masha	2316	-	WGM	Michna Marta	2382	1 - 0
5.2	WIM	Porat Maya	2299	-	WIM	Ohme Melanie	2361	0 - 1
5.3	WIM	Efroimski Marsel	2230	-	WGM	Levushkina Elena	2307	0 - 1
5.4	WIM	Vasiliev Olga	2305	-	WIM	Hoolt Sarah	2286	1 - 0
Bo.	18	Czech Rep.	Rtg	-	8	Bulgaria	Rtg	1 : 3
6.1	WGM	Kulovana Eva	2297	-	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	2531	½ - ½
6.2	WGM	Nemcova Katerina	2276	-	WGM	Videnova Iva	2297	½ - ½
6.3	WIM	Havlikova Kristyna	2285	-	WGM	Voiska Margarita	2328	0 - 1
6.4	WIM	Olsarova Tereza	2232	-	WGM	Nikolova Adriana	2286	0 - 1
Bo.	11	Slovenia	Rtg	-	14	Serbia	Rtg	2½:1½
7.1	IM	Muzychuk Anna	2557	-	IM	Bojkovic Natasa	2396	1 - 0
7.2	WGM	Krivec Jana	2291	-	WGM	Chelushkina Irina	2276	1 - 0
7.3	WGM	Srebrnic Ana	2219	-	WGM	Stojanovic Andjelija	2280	0 - 1
7.4	WIM	Rozic Vesna	2263	-	WIM	Drljevic Ljilja	2273	½ - ½
Bo.	6	Hungary	Rtg	-	17	Azerbaijan	Rtg	2 : 2
8.1	GM	Hoang Thanh Trang	2446	-	WGM	Mamedjarova Zeinab	2314	½ - ½
8.2	WGM	Rudolf Anna	2347	-	WIM	Kazimova Narmin	2241	½ - ½
8.3	WGM	Gara Ticia	2375	-	WIM	Mammadova Gulnar	2290	0 - 1
8.4	IM	Gara Anita	2340	-	WIM	Umudova Nargiz	2210	1 - 0
Bo.	13	Netherlands	Rtg	-	22	England	Rtg	3 : 1
9.1	GM	Peng Zhaoqin	2379	-	IM	Houska Jovanka	2415	1 - 0
9.2	IM	Lanchava Tea	2320	-	WFM	Yurenok Maria S	2106	1 - 0
9.3	WIM	Bensdorp Marlies	2242	-	WFM	Bhatia Kanwal K	2087	1 - 0
9.4	WIM	Haast Anne	2268	-	WFM	Hegarty Sarah N	2060	0 - 1
Bo.	27	Turkey	Rtg	-	19	Croatia	Rtg	1½:2½
10.1	WIM	Yildiz Betul Cemre	2301	-	WGM	Golubenko Valentina	2293	1 - 0
10.2	WIM	Ozturk Kubra	2239	-	WIM	Franciskovic Borka	2280	½ - ½
10.3		Cemhan Kardelen	1881	-	WGM	Medic Mirjana	2236	0 - 1
10.4		Menzi Nezihe Ezgi	1911	-	WIM	Jelica Mara	2234	0 - 1
Bo.	10	Spain	Rtg	-	26	Lithuania	Rtg	3½: ½
11.1	IM	Alexandrova Olga	2423	-	WGM	Daulyte Deimante	2238	1 - 0
11.2	WGM	Vega Gutierrez Sabrina	2327	-	WIM	Zaksaite Salomeja	2200	½ - ½
11.3	WGM	Calzetta Ruiz Monica	2301	-		Batkovskyte Dominyka	2102	1 - 0
11.4	WIM	Hernandez Estevez Yudania	2284	-		Vanagaite Giedre	1958	1 - 0
Bo.	16	Greece	Rtg	-	20	Latvia	Rtg	2½:1½
12.1	IM	Dembo Yelena	2468	-	WGM	Reizniece-Ozola Dana	2281	½ - ½
12.2	WGM	Botsari Anna-Maria	2313	-	WGM	Berzina Ilze	2320	1 - 0
12.3	WIM	Fakhiridou Ekaterini	2180	-	WIM	Skinke Katrina	2227	½ - ½
12.4	WIM	Pavlidou Ekaterini	2176	-	WGM	Erneste Inguna	2218	½ - ½
Bo.	23	Italy	Rtg	-	24	Montenegro	Rtg	2½:1½
13.1	IM	Sedina Elena	2343	-	WGM	Vojinovic Jovana	2346	½ - ½
13.2	IM	Zimina Olga	2338	-	WFM	Milovic Aleksandra	2171	1 - 0
13.3	WIM	Brunello Marina	2221	-	WFM	Stojanovic Marija R	2095	½ - ½
13.4		Panella Fiammetta	2014	-		Blagojevic Tijana	1925	½ - ½
Bo.	28	Norway	Rtg	-	25	Switzerland	Rtg	1½:2½
14.1	WFM	Johnsen Sylvia	2028	-	WIM	Seps Monika	2198	0 - 1
14.2		Reppen Ellisiv	1949	-	WIM	Heinatz Dr Gundula	2205	0 - 1
14.3		Carlsen Ellen Oen	1931	-		De Seroux Camille	2056	½ - ½
14.4		Hansen Erle Andrea Marki	1762	-		Stoeri Laura	1939	1 - 0

The table of the leading teams:

Rank	Seed	Team	Games	+	=	-	Match points	Game points	Tie-Break
1	1	Russia	9	8	1	0	17	25.5	177.0
2	5	Poland	9	6	2	1	14	23.0	178.0
3	3	Georgia	9	7	0	2	14	22.5	181.0
4	2	Ukraine	9	6	0	3	12	21.5	180.0
5	12	France	9	6	0	3	12	21.0	172.5
6	8	Bulgaria	9	5	1	3	11	19.5	175.5
7	4	Armenia	9	4	3	2	11	19.0	182.0
8	7	Germany	9	4	2	3	10	20.5	161.5
9	15	Israel	9	4	2	3	10	19.0	164.5
10	11	Slovenia	9	4	2	3	10	19.0	146.0

Official site: http://euro2011.chessdom.com/

You can also find the team composition, results and statistics here: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr57856.aspx?art=8&lan=1&turdet=YES&flag=30

And for the women event's: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr57855.aspx?art=8&lan=1&turdet=YES&flag=30