European Union Championships
The European Union Championships are being held at Liverpool. The biggest news so far? Nigel Short's losing ringtone. Leading Standings after round 5: 1 Alberto David LUX 4½ 2 Viktor Laznicka CZE 4½ 3 Thal Abergel FRA 4 4 Michael Adams ENG 4 5 Emanuel Berg SWE 4 6 Bitalzadeh, Ali NED 4 7 Daniel Fridman GER 4 8 Daniel Gormally ENG 4 9 David Howell ENG 4 10 Georg Meier GER 4 11 Normunds Miezis LAT 4 12 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2681 4 Top Participants 1 Adams, Michael g 2735 2 Bacrot, Etienne g 2691 3 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g 2681 4 Short, Nigel D g 2655 5 Tiviakov, Sergei g 2645 6 Fridman, Daniel g 2637 7 L'Ami, Erwin g 2610 8 Beliavsky, Alexander G g 2606 9 Laznicka, Viktor g 2601 10 Baramidze, David g 2593 11 Smeets, Jan g 2593 12 Berg, Emanuel g 2592 13 Werle, Jan g 2591 14 Kotronias, Vasilios g 2574 15 Luther, Thomas g 2570 16 Andersson, Ulf g 2562 17 David, Alberto g 2562 18 Dgebuadze, Alexa...