Witold Bielecki Memorial (Team Tournament) for teams (6 players each) with average rating not higher than 2000 (at the 2011/4 ICCF Rating List) organized by ICCF-Europa started on 2012-01-25. Tournament attracted 22 European national teams. They were distributed to 3 sections. The first three teams from each section will play in the final.
There is only one open decisive game and we know almost all teams qualified for the final.
Qualifiers are following:
- section 1 (Preliminary 1) – Belarus, Austria & Finland
- section 2 (Preliminary 2) – Russia & Slovakia. Two teams are fighting for the 3rd promotion – Denmark & Czech Republic – both having the same score. However, better chance to succeed has Czech Republic who has still one open game.
- section 3 (Preliminary 3) – Ukraine, Romania & Poland
Decision on the final will be announced soon.
Mariusz Wojnar, TD MT-Bielecki TT