The ETCC 2023 started today in Budva, Montenegro. It’s a 9 round Swiss team event with some 36 federations taking part. Top seeds are Azerbaijan for the Open section and Georgia for the Women’s section. Results and pairings can be found here (Open) and here (Women).
Seeing how this community isn’t super active, maybe we can use this as a megathread for the event. Who are your favourite teams and players? Who do you predict will win?
…aaaand big upset already in the first round with Denmark (20th seed) beating Azerbaijan! Radjabov, Mamedov and Abasov all went into quick draws (maybe thinking that Mamedyarov was about to win). But Mamedyarov misplayed his attack and went on to lose vs. Mads Andersen.