Mediterranean Chess Championship
Chess tournament
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Mediterranean Chess Championship is a Swiss tournament organized by the Mediterranean Chess Association member nations (MCA) and opened for the chess players who are the members of the association.[1] MCA was established at the 73rd FIDE Congress in Bled, Slovenia and registered with FIDE as an affiliated international chess organization.[2][3]
The winner of the tournament are declared the Champion of the Mediterranean Championship 2023, while the best placed female are declared Mediterranean Women Champion 2023.[4]
History
The 11th Mediterranean Chess Championship was held in 2021 in Petrovac, Montenegro, sharing the venue and the prize fund with European School Chess Individual Cup. The time controls were set at 90 minutes per player for 40 moves, plus 15 minutes until the end of the game, with increment of 40 seconds for each move, starting from move one. The event's total prize fund 10,500 Euros, including the Champion prize of 1,200 Euros.[5]
In 2023, MCA partnered with the Catalan and Spanish Chess Federations, organizing the 13th Mediterranean Chess Championships 2023. The tournament was held in hotel La Terrassa in Platja d'Aro, Catalonia, from November 3 to November 11, 2023. It was played using time control of 90 minutes per player with a bonus of 30 seconds for each move played, starting from move one.[4]
Mediterranean Chess Champions
# 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)[6]10 2015 Beirut Ahmed Adly (Egypt) Sophie Milliet (France)[7]11 2021 Petrovac Ivan Saric (Croatia) Stavroula Tsolakidou (Greece)[8]12 2022 Cairo Dimitris Alexakis (Greece) Haritomeni Markantonaki (Greece)[9]13 2023 Platja d'Aro 
Gines Esteo Pedro Antonio (Spain) Makka Evanthia (Greece)[10]
*Note: Organized in the beginning of the following year.