Luxembourg is the winner of the 2nd European Small Nations Team Championship
The second European Small Nations Team Chess Championship in a row and the first after the creation of the FIDE Zone 1.10, took place at the Hotel ‘‘Norð in Viðareði’’ in Klaksvik on the beautiful Faroe Islands from Sunday 14th to Monday 22nd August 2011. With great enthusiasm all the members of the zone participated and it was the moment when the environment started to smell very friendly and family.
The big winner was the team of Luxembourg who automatically won also their free participation in the European Team Chess Championship in Porto Carras, Halkidiki – Greece, next November, with runner-up Faroe Islands, Monaco in third place, and subsequently Andorra, Malta, Cyprus, Liechtenstein, Guernsey, Jersey, and San Marino.
All results can be found at:
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr54681.aspx?ix=1&art=73&lan=1&turdet=YES
With the inspiration of Geoffrey Borg and Willy Iclicki and of course the contribution of the FIDE Deputy President, Mr. George Makropoulos, it was created in 2010 during the world chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, officially now the zone of European Small Nations (FIDE Zone 1.10) which consists of 10 members: Andorra, Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Guernsey, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco and San Marino.
Welcome to the European Small Nations Association’s website. There has been a great deal of effort in creating this website, which is intended to function as an electronic magazine. It has been spent a lot of time to achieve this goal. The website belongs exclusively to our Zone and you will be able to find here information about all ESNA events but you can also update it with your own local activities. May I take this opportunity to ask all of you who really love the sport of chess, embrace this effort and support it so that this website is kept as a powerful tool for informing and promoting chess in Europe. I hope this effort will be appreciated and loved by all of you. Any suggestions for future improvement of the website are welcome. Show understanding and forgive me for any omissions and weaknesses. Additionally, I hope that this website will also be useful to people outside the chess area to find interesting information to increase their knowledge of such a “big” and a great sport like chess!!!
