European Senior Chess Championship
The European Senior Chess Championship is a chess tournament for senior chess players organised by the European Chess Union (ECU). Beginning in 2001, entry was open to men aged sixty or over (60+) by January 1 of the year the tournament starts. The corresponding, women's category had an age restriction of fifty years or over (50+).
In 2014 the competition was split into separate tournaments for the age categories of 65+ and 50+ and these age restrictions were unified across both genders. The format of each tournament is a 9-round Swiss, the overall winners being awarded the respective titles of "European Senior Chess Champion" and "European Senior Women's Chess Champion" in each age category. Similar titles are awarded for rapidplay and blitz, but these are not shown below.
List of winners
# Year Location Overall winner Women champion 1 2001 
St. Vincent
Jacob Murey (Israel) 2 2002 St. Vincent
Vladimir Bukal (Croatia) 3 2003 St. Vincent
Sinisa Joksic (Serbia) Vlasta Macek (Croatia)4 2004 Arvier Mark Tseitlin (Israel) Radmila Popivoda (Israel)5 2005 
Bad Homburg Mark Tseitlin (Israel) 
Hanna Ereńska-Barlo (Poland)6 2006 
Davos Borislav Ivkov (Serbia) Valeria Dotan (Israel)7 2007 Hockenheim
Nukhim Rashkovsky (Russia) Elena Fatalibekova (Russia)8 2008 Davos Mark Tseitlin (Israel) Elena Fatalibekova (Russia)9 2009 
Rogaska Slatina Vitaly Tseshkovsky (Russia) Ludmila Saunina (Russia)10 2010 
Thessaloniki Vitaly Tseshkovsky (Russia) 
Tamar Khmiadashvili (Georgia)11 2011 Courmayeur
Mihai Suba (Romania) Nona Gaprindashvili (Georgia)12 2012 
Kaunas Nikolai Pushkov (Russia) 
Tatyana Fomina (Estonia)13 2013 
Plovdiv Mark Tseitlin (Israel) Margarita Voiska (Bulgaria)14 2014 
Porto
Nico Schouten (NED) (65+)
Keith Arkell (ENG) (50+) Valentina Kozlovskaya (RUS) (65+) Tatyana Fomina (EST) (50+)15 2015 Eretria.svg.png)
Jan Rooze (BEL) (65+)
Zurab Sturua (GEO) (50+) Nona Gaprindashvili (GEO) (65+) Svetlana Mednikova (RUS) (50+)
See also
- World Senior Chess Championship
- European Individual Chess Championship
- European Junior Chess Championship
- European Youth Chess Championship
- Asian Senior Chess Championship
References
- Crowther, Mark (4 September 2001), THE WEEK IN CHESS 359: European Senior Championships 2001, London Chess Center
- Crowther, Mark (7 October 2002), THE WEEK IN CHESS 413: European Senior Championships 2002, London Chess Center
- Crowther, Mark (29 September 2003), THE WEEK IN CHESS 464: European Senior Championships 2003, London Chess Center
- Crowther, Mark (20 September 2004), THE WEEK IN CHESS 515: European Senior Championships 2004, London Chess Center
- Crowther, Mark (21 August 2006), THE WEEK IN CHESS 615: European Senior Championships 2006, London Chess Center
- Results 2002 from FIDE
- Results 2003 from FIDE
- Results 2004 from FIDE
- Results 2005 from FIDE
- Results 2006 from FIDE
- Results 2007 from FIDE
- Homepage of the 2007 edition
- List of winners until 2006 in the Manual 2007 of the European Chess Union