14th
European Chess Solving Championship
3-5 May
2019, Glyfada, Greece
Invitation
The Greek Chess Composition
Committee of the Greek Chess Federation has the honor to invite the european
national teams and individual solvers to participate in the 14th
European Chess Solving Championship. The event will be held from Friday, May 3rd
(arrival) to Sunday, May 5th (departure) at the “Oasis Hotel
Apartments” in Glyfada, a cosmopolitan suburb of Athens. The hotel is the same
that hosted the ECSC 2016.
SCHEDULE
Captains’ meeting: Friday,
May 3, 16:30-16:45
Open solving tournament:
Friday, May 3, 17:00-20:00
ECSC 1st day: Saturday,
May 4, 10:30-14:00
ECSC 2nd day: Sunday, May 5,
9:30-13:00
Closing ceremony: Sunday, May
5, 16:00 (approximately)
ACCOMMODATION
Hotel Oasis (http://oasishotelapartments.com)
features fully equipped and renovated apartments, with private balcony.
Restaurant, bar and coffee shop are also available. All competitions and events
will be hosted within the hotel facilities and halls. The swimming pool (non
heated) is open from May 1st (10:30-18:45).
Prices per person per day
(bed and breakfast included):
·
Single room: 81€
·
Double room: 58€
·
Triple room: 51€
·
Quadruple room: 43€
Prices include all taxes, free
access to the hotel health and recreation facilities, as well as participation
fees to all regular solving tournaments. These prices are also valid 3 days
before and after the event. All payments should be made to the organizers, upon
arrival, in cash (€).
The
participation fee for those not staying in Oasis Hotel is 50€. It would be very important
for us to make the reservation until the 11th of March. After this date an additional 20€ fee per reservation applies and the organization
committee cannot guarantee the room availability.
TRANSPORT
The express bus X96
departs right outside the arrival level of the Main Terminal Building at the
exit 4 of the airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” (Athens). X96 runs 24 hours every
20-40 minutes. The bus needs 35-45 minutes to reach the hotel, which is located
just next to the bus stop “4th Glyfadas”. The one way
ticket costs 6€. Tickets are available from the bus driver or from ticket
kiosk at the bus departure area of the airport.
By taxi, the max cost (including
luggage, taxes, etc.) is 38€ (from 5:00 to 24:00) or 54€ (from 24:00 to 5:00).
MEALS
Accommodation
prices include only breakfast. Participants can, on their expense, have snacks
“a la carte” in the hotel or they can pre-order (one day earlier) to the hotel
a full meal which costs 15€. All payments and arrangements for
meals will be made directly with the hotel and not through the organizing
committee. Alternatively, there are also many restaurants within a short
distance (15 minutes on foot).
DIRECTORS, ORGANIZERS, INFORMATION
Director of the ECSC will
be Ivan Denkovski assisted by Ioannis Garoufalidis and Harry Fougiaxis.
Director of the open
solving tournament will be Ioannis Garoufalidis.
Organization: Nikos &
George Mendrinos in co-operation with the Greek Chess Composition Committee.
All the information about
the event will be published on the site:
VISAS
The organizing committee
will provide invitation for visas. Teams or players needing visas are requested
to contact the organizing committee.
REGISTRATION
Please, fill our form
before 11th of March!
