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The first round of the European Chess Club Cup was extremely exciting chess-wise and very disappointing in the organizational sense: only a few boards were relayed properly, while most of the games hadn't been featured at all. Hopefully, this will be fixed in the subsequent rounds.
A typical reaction of the spectators
In the Open section all the main rating favorites won their matches convincingly...except for the #1 seed, SOCAR!
XII-th Women's World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk defeated XIII-th Women's World Chess Champion Hou Yifan as Black, but it was not enough - Monaco still prevailed
In the women's tournament the reigning champion AVS suffered a sensational defeat at the hands of Ugra. At the beginning of the round the clocks of the players turned out to be not operational - the organizers forgot about the batteries...
