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MT-Bielecki Top Players

World Cup 18 webpage – small reorganization

Webpage dedicated to World Cup 18 was slightly rearranged. At the main page news and reports (actually links to posts) on World Cup 18 are to be placed. New subpages has been created:

World Cup 18 announcement Status of the entries Statistics & Qualifications

Witold Bielecki Memorial – Team Tournament – initiated

Witold Bielecki Memorial (Team Tournament) for teams (4 players each) with average rating not higher than 2000 (at the 2011/4 ICCF Rating List) organized by ICCF-Europa was initiated on 08.01.2012. However, official start is 25.01.2012. Tornament attracted 22 European national teams. They were distributed to 3 sections (Preliminary 1, Preliminary 2, Preliminary 3). The first […]

Report#5 on Friendly match Witold’s Friends – Rest of the World, only 10 days left to enter!

The Polish Chess Federation, with support of ICCF, is the organizer of the friendly match Witold’s Friends – Rest of the World.

This match is organized in a standard format with one opponent for each player and two games to play (one game with white and one game with black) and will be played on […]

Report on World Cup 18 – as of 18.01.2012

Statistics

Two months and a half after official start of the World Cup 18 we have 21% completed games. See below more statistics.

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Total number of games: 5058 Completed games: 1060 Completed games percentage: 21% Completed games with a draw: 446 Draw percentage: 42%

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Problems

Except of few cases games run smoothly.

For […]

World Cup 18, Statistics & Qualifications

Below some statistics and qualifications can be found as of 18.01.2012.

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Section Games FG# % Qualified for the World Cup 18 semifinals DJ-CT18 5058 1060 21% DJ-CT18/pr01 78 7 9% DJ-CT18/pr02 78 4 5% DJ-CT18/pr03 78 26 33% DJ-CT18/pr04 78 5 6% DJ-CT18/pr05 78 8 10% DJ-CT18/pr06 78 19 24% DJ-CT18/pr07 78 19 24% […]

Report#4 on Friendly match Witold’s Friends – Rest of the World, only 3 weeks left to enter!

The Polish Chess Federation, with support of ICCF, is the organizer of the friendly match Witold’s Friends – Rest of the World.

This match is organized in a standard format with one opponent for each player and two games to play (one game with white and one game with black) and will be played on […]

MT-Bielecki Top Players update as of 01.01.2012

Polish CC Federation organized Witold Bielecki Memorial at category 16 (average rating 2639,15), where 13 top players (see below list of participants) are invited. This is server event with rate of play 10 moves in 50 days (with duplication after 20 days is used). The tournament will start on 01.03.2012 with no end date.

This […]

Report#3 on Friendly match Witold’s Friends – Rest of the World

The Polish Chess Federation, with support of ICCF, is the organizer of the friendly match Witold’s Friends – Rest of the World.

This match is organized in a standard format with one opponent for each player and two games to play (one game with white and one game with black) and will be played on […]

Report#2 on Friendly match Witold’s Friends – Rest of the World

The Polish Chess Federation, with support of ICCF, is the organizer of the friendly match Witold’s Friends – Rest of the World.

This match is organized in a standard format with one opponent for each player and two games to play (one game with white and one game with black) and will be played on […]

Report#1 on Friendly match Witold’s Friends – Rest of the World

The Polish Chess Federation, with support of ICCF, is the organizer of the friendly match Witold’s Friends – Rest of the World.

This match is organized in a standard format with one opponent for each player and two games to play (one game with white and one game with black) and will be played on […]