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The Polish national team, with Oliwia Kiołbasa and Anna Kubicka, won the gold medal of the European Youth Team Chess Championship in the Girls Section. Second place for Slovenia II (Monika Rozman, Zala Urh),the bronze medal went to Estonia (Mai Narva, Margareth Olde) The event was very dramatic, full of fighting and emotions till the last round. All 3 teams have gained 10 matchpoints and additional scoring was necessary to find a winner.

Dmitrij Kollars, Thore Perske, Vincent Keymer, Leonid Sawlin i Raphael Lagunow are participants of the German representation who have won the gold medal of European Youth Team Chess Championship in Open Section. Second place has taken by Serbia’s national team, third place for Croatia.

Before the last round, the situation in both sections has been really coplex. Let's start from the OPEN section – three teams (Germany, Serbia and Moldova) were co-leading. The opportunity has been used by two first above-mentioned squads (4-0 against Turkey and 3,5-0,5 against Poland IV, respectively). After really exciting games Moldova was defeated by Ukraine. A team from Croatia has taken an advantage of Moldova's defeat and after a victory over Israel, they won the bronze medals. The gold medals were won by Germany, the silver medals went to Serbia.

The first move on the first chess board in the girls' section was made today by the Polish grandmaster Jan Krzysztof Duda. The young player is a multimedialist of the World and European Junior Championships and who reached the magic boundary of 2700 ELO points in 2017. With this ranking he occupies the 41st place in the world. In June this year he won the historic bronze medal of the World Team Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk. Jan Krzysztof Duda met with the youngest players of the royal game, he played several games with them and gave several interviews.

On Monday on the sport’s field „Orlik” in Rymanów Zdrój was held a football tournament. In the tournament participated 6 teams, which played against each other. After then the fight for medal places was started. The competition was very fierce. The tournament won the Polish team, 2nd place had Slovakia, Belgium was third. Slovakia II, Denmark and Germany took next places. The medalists received small gifts with the championship logo.

Fifth round has brought a new leader in the open section. Serbia managed to win the match 2,5-1,5 against top seed German team. The fight for the medals is going to be exciting as the second place is shared by five teams – Moldova, Croatia, Hungary, Germany and Czech Republic.