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First European Chessminton Championships (ECCs) successfully completed – 28 new European Champions were crowned

(A German report is available as PDF file HERE)

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Chessminton is a new hydrid sport combining chess and badminton, i.e. merging the most popular mental sport on the globe with the world’s fastest and most athletic racket sport. Each Chessminton match consists of four phases: A 5 minutes Blitz chess game followed by 2 badminton games (up to 11 points) and concluded by a final Blitz chess game. The chess games are scored in the range of 11:0 to 11:9 depending on the winner’s time (the faster the winner wins, the higher the score, e.g. 11:0 if the winnner wins within 30 sec., and 11:9 if the winner wins using a time of more than 4 min. 30 sec.), the outcome of a match depends on the sum of the total scores of the four phases.

A series of three European Chessminton Championships (ECC) were now organized in this summer by the German Chessminton Federaton and the three clubs SSV Waghäusel, TV Tamm and SC Tamm: The Youth ECC on July 26, 2025 in Waghäusel, the Adult’s ECC on July 27, 2025 in Waghäusel, and the Junior’s & Senior’s ECC on Aug 2, 2025 in Tamm. These are the first continental tournaments in Chessminton in the history of this new hydrid sport.

Some of the ECC players have already played Chessminton in one of the German national tournaments held 2024, but for many ECC players, it was their first Chessminton tournament.

Photo ECC stage with flags

Youth ECC (July 26 in Waghäusel)

57 young players from four different European countries (Germany, France, Hungary, Luxembourg) competed in 12 events, and played a total of 148 Chessminton matches on one day.

Twelve new European champions were crowned on July 26 in Waghäusel: The Hungarian sisters Szabina Zoé Balázs and Sztella Anna Balázs (both girl’s doubles U19), Calixte Hoarau from France (boys‘ singles U15 and boys‘ doubles U19), Erik Gebhardt from Germany (boys‘ singles and boys‘ doubles U19), Valentin Lang from Germany (boys’ doubles U15 and mixed doubles U19), Mokshadha Nalam from Germany (girls’ singles and mixed doubles U19), Clarissa Wat from Germany (mixed doubles U13), Sean Wittmer from Germany (boys’ singles and boys’ doubles U13), Marie Wong from Germany (girls’ doubles U13), Amélie Zhu from Germany (girls’ singles and girls’ doubles U13), Marco Kaibo Zhu from Germany (boys’ doubles and mixed doubles U13), and Timo Kaiheng Zhu from Germany (boys’ doubles U15). Congratulations!

Photos of winners in U13 events: Girls’ singles U13, Girls’ doubles U13, Boys’ singles U13, Boys’ doubles U13, Mixed doubles U13

Photos of winners in U15/U19 events: Girls’ singles U19, Girls’ doubles U19, Boys’ singles U15, Boys’ singles U19, Boys’ doubles U15, Boys’ doubles U19, Mixed doubles U19

Detailed results see: 1st Youth ECC 2025

Adult’s ECC (July 27 in Waghäusel)

42 players from five different European countries (Germany, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Ukraine) competed in 6 events, and played a total of 89 Chessminton matches on one day.

Seven new European champions were crowned on July 27 in Waghäusel: The French chess grandmasters GM Thal Abergel (men’s singles, men’s doubles, mixed doubles) and GM Christian Bauer (men’s doubles), Roland Dolensky from Germany (team event), Shweta Kulkarni from Germany (mixed doubles), Michaela Roj from Germany (women’s doubles), Vinay Surgihalli Mruthyunjayappa from Germany (team event), and Olga Weis from Germany (women’s singles, women’s doubles and team event). Congratulations!

Photo Adult’s ECC players

Photo Winners Men’s singles

Photo Winners Women’s doubles

Detailed results see: 1st Adult’s ECC 2025; Detailed results of the team event see: Team Event – 1st Adult’s ECC 2025

Junior’s and Senior’s ECC (Aug 2 in Tamm)

40 players from four different European countries (Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Portugal) competed in 10 events, and played a total of 92 Chessminton matches on one day.

Nine new European champions were crowned on Aug 2 in Tamm: Lars Balzer from Switzerland (men’s doubles 35+), Karolin Blaich from Germany (women’s singles and mixed doubles 35+), Cornelius Göttelmann from Germany (men’s doubles U25), Joshua Heinzmann from Germany (men’s singles and mixed doubles U25, team event), Noah Heinzmann from Germany (team event), Fuad Hussain from Germany (men’s doubles U25), Vladimir Krivanek from Czech Republic (men’s singles 35+, team event), Ralf Schnabel from Germany (men’s singles 45+ and men’s doubles 35+), Sidhi Vishnu from Germany (mixed doubles U25). Furthermore, the Youth European Champion Mokshadha Nalam from Germany won the women’s singles U25 event, and the Adult’s European Champion Roland Dolensky won the mixed doubles 35+ event, both being the only players winning gold medals in two different ECCs. Congratulations!

Photo Winners Men’s doubles 35+

Photo Winners Mixed doubles 35+

Detailed results see: 1st Junior’s/Senior’s ECC 2025; Detailed results of the team event see: Team Event – 1st Junior’s/Senior’s ECC 2025

Thanks

Last, but not least, our sincere thanks go to all who have supported us for the three ECCs, especially the badminton clubs SSV Waghäusel and TV Tamm and the chess club SC Tamm as the three organizing clubs, Oliver-Sport for sponsoring the events in Waghäusel, the ChessSports Association (CSA) for providing travel expense funding for the players, the chess club SC Viernheim for providing the chess equipment, and the players’ platform Sportduell for general support.

Closing words

Many players have asked the question whether there will be a Chessminton world championship in the next years. Our goal is to organize a Chessminton world championship at the latest in 2027. Hopefully, Chessminton will spread and develop quickly on the globe until then😊

Further reports on the ECC in the WWW:

Author: Dr. Sascha Zhu, German Chessminton Federation

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