Team Belgium at EYCC 2024 (21.08-1.09, Prague)

The European Youth Chess Championship, organized by the European Chess Union (ECU) and the Czech Chess Federation takes place during 21 August – 1 September 2024 in Prague. 

This year, Belgium is well represented by a group of 28 young talents, accompanied by federal coaches FM Martin Ahn (Head of Delegation) and FM Rudolf Meessen, and their parents. There are 6 age categories, from -8 till -18, for both Open and Girls sections. The tournament runs for 9 rounds, Swiss format, with a time control of 90 min + 30 sec/move pppp.

The results are published on the chess-results server and some of the games can be followed live on lichess (rounds start at 15:00 CET, lichess broadcast with 15 min delay).

This is Team Belgium:

• Cornil Claire (G8)
• Babii Oriiana, Schmitz Janne (G10)
• Pribylla Amelia, Frenzel Qorianka (G12)
• Defour Eline, Pham Kieu Khanh (G14)
• Ahn Anastasia, Vermeulen Hailey, Pinet Valentine (G16)
• Faybish Dana (G18)
• Ok Miro, Patel Shivaansh, Pham Hoang Minh (O8)
• Verbeke Basiel (O10), 
• Toledo Hillel, Nguyen Khoi (O12),
• Battistelli Fausto,  Ahn Maximilian,  Morard Ambroise, Declerck Adriaan, Pereira Garza Cecilia (O14)
• Vandenhole Kobe, Hauchamps Maxime, Raptis Filippos, Govoreanu Matei, Konidakis Alex (O16)
• Vermoesen Jordan (O18)

Let’s wish them all good luck!