The European Individual Chess Championship 2018 will kick off in Batumi, Georgia, on March 16 with 318 chess players, including 138 grandmasters set to participate in the tournament. As the National Olympic Committee of Armenia reported, our country will be represented by 34 players, members of the national team Gabriel Sargsyan, Hrant Melkumyna, and Hayk Martirosyan among them.
As the organizers of the tournament inform, the European Individual Chess Championship will be played in 11 rounds according to Swiss system in accordance with ECU and FIDE Tournament Rules and Rules of Chess, with time control 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from the move one.
The Championship is a qualification event for the next World Cup.