41st European Chess Club Cup 2026 — R7 Delgerdalai took the knight with 14...Qxd6, the queen first, where Max Illingworth analysed the pawn recapture 14...cxd6 in our April 2015 1. d4 d5 update. More: ift.tt/KuiEIRN

41st European Chess Club Cup 2026 — R7 Radovanovic chose 14.Bd2 in the Opocensky Najdorf, where Michael Roiz's December 2022 Open Sicilians update analysed 14.Nd2 and the plan of transferring the queen's knight to e3. More: ift.tt/xsmHKJP

Frederic Decoster recaptured on e5 with 11...Ndxe5 against Magnus Ermitsch, taking with the d7-knight where Ezra Kirk analysed 11...Ncxe5 in Pranav–Lavrencic and 11...Qxe5 for the June 2025 Anti-Sicilians update. More: ift.tt/pRNiHIv

Mikhalevski answered Erdos with 13...c4 in a position he annotated himself: in our July 2014 Open Games update he analysed 13...Be6, and he also looked at 13...b6, writing that it is "developing the light-squared bishop to b7". More: ift.tt/QqD8trK

41st European Chess Club Cup 2026 — R7 Hracek answered 8.g3 with 8...Be7, where John Emms analysed 8...h6 in Erigaisi–Keymer. More: ift.tt/ntyTgsY

Zbynek Hracek met Hilmir Freyr Heimisson's 7.Ng5 with 7...Bg6, and, as John Emms, in the October 2025 Nimzo & Benoni update, annotating Erigaisi–Keymer, put it: "Erigaisi's choice has a desired effect, as Keymer doesn't choose t… More: ift.tt/A5yhIma

41st European Chess Club Cup 2026 — R7 Pranav answered 11.Bg5 with 11...Be7 in the Slav Exchange, a position Justin Tan covered in our June 2022 1. d4 d5 update. "This is at least a way to keep some play in the position... More: ift.tt/R8JcV5y

41st European Chess Club Cup 2026 — R7 David Anton Guijarro answered 12.Bg5 with 12...d5, where Tony Kosten's May 2023 Open Games update followed 12...h6 in Nepomniachtchi–Ding Liren. More: ift.tt/6PfXcTM

41st European Chess Club Cup 2026 — R7 Ihor Samunenkov has just played 8...dxc4 against Milan Chovan, the move John Emms annotated in Ghosh–Nepomniachtchi for his December 2025 Nimzo & Benoni update. More: ift.tt/ivNVLI1

41st European Chess Club Cup 2026 — R7 Abdusattorov has answered Giri on the top board with 11...Qe7, where Justin Tan analysed the main line 11...Qc7 when annotating So–Rapport in our May 2022 1. d4 d5 update. More: ift.tt/EyvP8jL

41st European Chess Club Cup 2026 — R7 Erdogmus met Van Foreest with 8...g5, where Justin Tan analysed 8...Bh7 as the main move and 8...Ng6 as an interesting alternative. More: ift.tt/UhC80wq

41st European Chess Club Cup 2026 — R7 Our own Brandon Clarke went 9.Qf3 against Yahli Sokolovsky in the Lipnitsky Attack, where Michael Roiz has analysed 9.a3 in his September 2025 Open Sicilians update. More: ift.tt/kE7y6ba

41st European Chess Club Cup 2026 — R7 Mamedyarov answered this Semi-Tarrasch position with 11.g3, the move Justin Tan analysed in our March 2022 1. d4 d5 update. More: ift.tt/KPVqMim

41st European Chess Club Cup 2026 — R7 Richard Rapport met Sarana's Kangaroo with 4...Nf6, where John Emms analysed d5 in Flear–Arkell for our September 2023 Nimzo & Benoni update. More: ift.tt/Tw3LSht

Dardha met Gurel's Caro-Kann Exchange with 6.Be3, where Marian Petrov's January 2026 1. e4... update covers 6.h3 as "a solid line avoiding the pin." Be3 is a rare choice here, with only a handful of games, while Dardha has alway… More: ift.tt/Z6dKzeG

41st European Chess Club Cup 2026 — R7 Nihal Sarin met Murali Karthikeyan's 5.Nf3 with 5...Qc7, where John Watson has been analysing 5...Bd7 in his June 2026 French update. More: ift.tt/wvEaRgY

41st European Chess Club Cup 2026 — R7 David Anton Guijarro has just played 9...Bb7 against Shogdzhiev, the move Harry Grieve featured in the January 2025 Open Games update, annotating Dominguez Perez–Niemann. More: ift.tt/29szfny

41st European Chess Club Cup 2026 — R6 Erenberg retreated his bishop to e7 with 11...Be7 against Uber Gracia, a move nobody has played in a position reached hundreds of times. More: ift.tt/Ul4uhEG

41st European Chess Club Cup 2026 — R6 Volodar Murzin played 10.Be2, the move John Emms listed as an alternative to 10.b4 in his February 2004 Nimzo & Benoni update. More: ift.tt/ZOa8FiH

41st European Chess Club Cup 2026 — R6 Chigaev has met Murzin's restrained Nimzo with 8...Ne4, the move John Emms analysed in the Classical Variation and explained by noting that 9.Qb3 "looks silly with the pawn still on b2". More: ift.tt/Lv3w7rP