Individual European Championship among men was held in Vrnjačka Banya, Serbia.

According to the Apasport.az website, Nijat Abasov, one of the Azerbaijani chess players, took 17th place by collecting 7.5 points from 11 games.

With this result, he qualified for the World Cup.

Another representative of ours, Ahmet Khagan, increased his rating and fulfilled the standard of the FIDE master title.