Mediterranean Chess Championship

Leading chess players from the Mediterranean Chess Association member nations, and invited guest participants, are allowed to play in the Mediterranean Chess Championship.[1] The Mediterranean Chess Association was established at the 73rd FIDE Congress in Bled, Slovenia and registered with FIDE as an affiliated international chess organization.[2][3]

There was no Mediterranean Chess Championship event held for 2010, 2011 and 2013.

## Mediterranean Chess Champions

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# | Year | City | Men's Champion | Women's Champion

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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)[4]
10 | 2015 | Beirut |  Ahmed Adly (Egypt) |  Sophie Milliet (France)[5]

*Note: Organized in the beginning of the following year.

## References

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1. ^ Mediterranean Chess Association Archived 2013-10-30 at archive.today Official webpage
2. ^ Press Release #1 Mediterranean Chess Association
3. ^ Mediterranean Chess Association Archived 2013-10-31 at the Wayback Machine Affiliated International Organizations, www.fide.com
4. ^ "GM Bassem Amin lifts Mediterranean trophy on his birthday". Chessdom. 2014-09-11. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
5. ^ 10th Mediterranean Individual Championships 2015 - Beirut – Lebanon Chess-Results

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