Georgian chess player Baadur Jobava (2707) celebrated 4 victories from five rounds of 12^th European Individual Championship which is underway in the city of France, Aix les Bains. As a result he is on the 24^th place among 400 participants. Jobava is half-point behind the leaders and in case of winning in the next rounds he has chance of fighting for medal.
In the 8^th round of this competition Jobava playing with white pieces won over Azerbaijani Eltaj Safarli (2628) and gained 6.0 points. Vladimir Potkin (2653), Austrian Markus Rager (2614), Moldovan Viorel Yordanesku (2626), Romanian Mirchea-Emilian Parling (2598), Azerbaijani Rauf Mamedov (2667) and Russian Nikita Vitiugov (2720) are leaders with 6.5 points.
In the 9^th round Baadur plays against Armenian Tigran Garamian of France (2650) with black pieces.Garamian is on the 22^nd place with 6.0 points. The results of Georgian participants at European Championship is the following: 64. Levan Pantsulaia(2595) – 5.0; 83. Tornike Sanikidze (2542) – 5.0; 137.Lela Javakhishvili (2437) – 4.5; 175. Davit Lobjanidze (2489) – 4.0; 205. Luka Paichadze (2487) – 4.0; 212. Davit Zarkua (2397) – 4.0; 218. Salome Melia (2462) – 4.0;

11 rounds will be held at European Championship and it will end up on April 2. Champion of the tournament will win 20 000 EUR. 25 chess players will be rewarded with cash prizes.