Georgian chess player Baadur Jobava (2678) competed very well at European Rapid Chess Championship 2011, which was held in Warsaw. In 13 rounds Jobava gained 11.0 points and among 747 he managed to win gold medal.
Before this tournament, there was held European Rapid Chess Championship 2011, but Georgian grandmaster did not participate in it (Armenia’s Grandmaster Hrant Melkumyan became the winner of European Blitz Chess Championship 2011). In rapid chess tournament (15 minutes to each move with 10 seconds adding) he competed very well. Baadur won first six matches. He won over Maria Galubeva (Latvia, 1824), Siryl Rusel (France, 2140), Pavel Stomas (Poland, 2316), Casper Pioroon (2520), Viotsekh Moranda (2658) and Arturs Niekar (2502).
In the seventh-eighth round Georgian chess player played draw with Alexey Shirov (Spain, 2705) and Yan Nepomniasch (Russia, 2730) and after that he lost the only match with Hungarian Viktor Erdosh (2623).

According to it, Jobava’s probable championship was hard to imagine. But he won four matches in a row, he beat Marchin Ziuba (Poland, 2589), Tamash Banush (Hungary, 2563), Artem Timofeev (2659) and Andrey Volokitin (Ukraine, 2695). As it has already been mentioned, Jobava gained 11.0 points and overtook seven playesr with 0.5 point.  With additional points, Russian Sanan Shugirov (2622) gained silver medal and Pole Robert Kempinsk (2603) won bronze medal.
16 250 EUR was prize money for European Rapid Chess Championship 2011, Jobava was awarded 4 000 EUR.