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The European Online Blitz Championship took place 18th to 20th December 2020. An 11 round swiss which produced 16 qualifiers for the final knockout stages. On the final day both semi-finals went to Armageddon tie-breaks Gawain Jones beat David Navara and Alexei Shirov beat Matthias Bluebaum. In the final and 3rd 4th playoffs the matches were both won 2.5-0.5. The final standings were winner Gawain Jones, runner up Alexei Shirov, 3rd place Matthias Bluebaum and 4th David Navara.

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Euro Online Blitz Quali Tornelo INT Fri 18th Dec 2020 - Sun 20th Dec 2020 Leading Final Round 11 Standings:
Rk	SNo	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	3	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	GM	POL	2705	9.0	74.5	79.5	5
2	35	Hovhannisyan Robert	GM	ARM	2642	9.0	73.5	78.0	6
3	142	Pantsulaia Levan	GM	GEO	2553	9.0	72.5	77.0	5
4	63	Onischuk Vladimir	GM	UKR	2622	9.0	69.5	73.5	6
5	87	Indjic Aleksandar	GM	SRB	2604	9.0	66.5	71.5	5
6	6	Navara David	GM	CZE	2697	8.5	74.5	80.0	5
7	14	Jones Gawain C B	GM	ENG	2670	8.5	74.5	79.0	6
8	171	Demidov Mikhail	GM	RUS	2523	8.5	74.5	78.5	6
9	22	Shirov Alexei	GM	ESP	2662	8.5	68.5	73.0	5
10	55	Deac Bogdan-Daniel	GM	ROU	2625	8.5	67.5	73.0	5
11	103	Safarli Eltaj	GM	AZE	2598	8.5	65.5	69.5	5
12	49	Ozen Deniz	IM	TUR	2397	8.0	81.5	88.0	5
13	11	Bluebaum Matthias	GM	GER	2670	8.0	76.0	80.0	5
14	50	Yilmaz Mustafa	GM	TUR	2630	8.0	71.5	74.5	6
15	54	Petrosyan Manuel	GM	ARM	2628	8.0	71.0	76.5	6
16	51	Meier Georg	GM	GER	2628	8.0	71.0	75.0	5
17	143	Steinberg Nitzan	GM	ISR	2553	8.0	69.0	74.5	5
18	139	Theodorou Nikolas	IM	GRE	2554	8.0	68.5	73.5	6
19	99	Hakobyan Aram	GM	ARM	2598	8.0	67.5	73.0	5
20	135	Sanal Vahap	GM	TUR	2563	8.0	66.5	71.0	5
21	67	Moranda Wojciech	GM	POL	2618	8.0	66.0	71.0	5
22	27	Saric Ivan	GM	CRO	2652	8.0	65.0	69.5	5
23	7	Sargissian Gabriel	GM	ARM	2682	8.0	64.5	68.0	5
24	189	Garayev Kanan	IM	AZE	2331	8.0	64.0	68.5	4
25	215	Dourerassou Jonathan	GM	FRA	2477	8.0	63.5	66.0	4
26	122	Aleksandrov Aleksej	GM	BLR	2574	8.0	62.0	66.5	6
27	23	Cheparinov Ivan	GM	BUL	2660	7.5	70.0	75.0	5
28	115	Wagner Dennis	GM	GER	2581	7.5	70.0	74.0	5
29	119	Bogner Sebastian	GM	SUI	2577	7.5	69.0	72.0	5
30	19	Sjugirov Sanan	GM	RUS	2663	7.5	68.0	73.0	5
31	274	Kacharava Nikolozi	IM	GEO	2443	7.5	67.5	72.5	6
32	42	Sarana Alexey	GM	RUS	2640	7.5	67.5	71.5	6
33	178	Jovanovic Zoran	GM	CRO	2517	7.5	67.5	71.5	5
34	319	Gunnarsson Arnar	IM	ISL	2420	7.5	66.5	67.0	5
35	223	Costachi Mihnea	IM	ROU	2471	7.5	62.0	66.0	5
36	299	Ahmadzada Ahmad	IM	AZE	2431	7.5	61.5	64.5	5
37	65	Baskin Robert	IM	GER	2390	7.5	58.0	61.5	5
38	56	Tsvetkov Andrey	FM	RUS	2395	7.5	57.5	61.0	6
39	302	Kosakowski Jakub	IM	POL	2431	7.5	55.0	57.0	6
40	104	Barp Alberto	IM	ITA	2366	7.0	71.0	77.0	5
41	190	Livaic Leon	IM	CRO	2507	7.0	71.0	74.5	5
42	183	Suleymanli Aydin	IM	AZE	2512	7.0	70.0	74.0	6
43	77	Can Isik	IM	TUR	2380	7.0	67.5	72.0	5
44	282	Grinev Valeriy	IM	UKR	2441	7.0	66.5	69.5	5
45	31	Movsesian Sergei	GM	ARM	2647	7.0	65.0	69.0	5
46	72	Bashirli Nail	IM	AZE	2382	7.0	64.0	67.5	5
47	62	Martirosyan Haik M.	GM	ARM	2622	7.0	62.5	67.0	6
48	154	Gazik Viktor	IM	SVK	2542	7.0	62.5	66.5	6
49	114	Kobalia Mikhail	GM	RUS	2587	7.0	62.0	66.0	6
50	199	Jakubowski Krzysztof	GM	POL	2497	7.0	62.0	66.0	5
323 players

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Euro Online Blitz TOP16 Tornelo INT Fri 18th Dec 2020 - Sun 20th Dec 2020 Leading Final Round 2 Standings:
Rk	Name	Pts
	Round 2
1	Shirov, Alexei	3.0
2	Meier, Georg	1.0
1	Bluebaum, Matthias	3.0
2	Indjic, Aleksandar	1.0
1	Navara, David	2.5
2	Pantsulaia, Levan	0.5
1	Jones, Gawain C B	3.0
2	Petrosyan, Manuel	2.0
	Round 1
1	Shirov, Alexei	3.0
2	Demidov, Mikhail	2.0
1	Meier, Georg	3.0
2	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	2.0
1	Bluebaum, Matthias	2.5
2	Onischuk, Vladimir	0.5
1	Indjic, Aleksandar	3.0
2	Ozen, Deniz	0.0
1	Navara, David	3.0
2	Safarli, Eltaj	1.0
1	Pantsulaia, Levan	3.0
2	Yilmaz, Mustafa	2.0
1	Petrosyan, Manuel	3.0
2	Hovhannisyan, Robert	2.0
1	Jones, Gawain C B	2.5
2	Deac, Bogdan-Daniel	1.5
16 players

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Euro Online Blitz TOP4 Tornelo INT Fri 18th Dec 2020 - Sun 20th Dec 2020 Leading Final Round 2 Standings:
Rk	Name	Pts
	Final
1	Jones, Gawain C B	2.5
2	Shirov, Alexei	0.5
	3rd-4th
3	Bluebaum, Matthias	2.5
4	Navara, David	0.5
	Semi-final
1	Jones, Gawain C B	3.0
2	Navara, David	2.0
1	Shirov, Alexei	3.0
2	Bluebaum, Matthias	2.0
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