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Name of Federation:<\/strong> F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Luxembourgeoise des Echecs (FLDE)<\/p>\n

Year of Foundation:<\/strong> 1931<\/p>\n

ICCF Delegate and E-Mail contact:<\/strong>\u00a0Thed Klauner (tklauner@pt.lu<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.flde.lu\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Article provided by:<\/strong> Thed Klauner<\/p>\n

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Luxembourg is one of the smallest members of ICCF. In just about 999 square miles live about 500,000 people.<\/p>\n

Although a small Federation, Luxembourg has 2 GM Norbert Stull, Jean-Marie Weber 3 SIM Carlo Mengi, Thed Klauner, Nico Daubenfeld, 2 IM Bernard Simon, Marc Mertens.<\/p>\n

The best result so far was the European title of N.Stull in the 33rd European Championship.<\/p>\n

At the ICCF Congress in Bad Neuenahr in Germany, Thed Klauner was awarded the title of International arbiter. For ten years, he was the guide of Luxembourgish CC. In these years, Luxembourg started to achieve good results and became a dangerous opponent in Olympiad tournaments. In 1996, Fr\u00e4nk Riva took his place and in Luxembourg a first championship of CC was organised which ended with two winners: J.C. Schuller and F. Schmit.<\/p>\n

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The history of Luxembourgish CC is very scanty, as nobody in Luxembourg had the idea to play CC. The first known match was the participation of the city of Dudelange in the Belgium Championship in 1961 and the way to the title of Belgium Championship! In that time, only one or two players competed in international CC. However, a new era of CC began in 1993 when Luxembourg entered the third European team championship.<\/p>\n

The most important tournament for a small country are the CC Olympiads.:<\/p>\n

Olympiad XI Preliminaries Section 3. Team: Stull, Goerens, Klauner, Simon, Riva, and Philippe. Luxembourg scored 27\u00bd\/54 and took 5th place, winning against Austria, Bulgaria, Wales, Iceland and Algeria, but losing to DDR, Denmark, Germany and Canada.<\/p>\n

Olympiad XII Preliminaries Section 2. Team: Goerens, Simon, Riva, Klauner, Daubenfeld, Weber. Luxembourg got 37\/66 and took the 6th place: won against Italy, Mexico, Wales, South-Africa, Algeria and New-Zealand, lost against Sweden, Slovenia, Lithuania, Germany and Hungary.<\/p>\n

European Championships<\/div>\n

3rd European Team Championship. Team: Feller\/Riva, Stull, Christen, Bastian, Goerens, Simon, Klauner, Ludewig, Kirsch; Daubenfeld, David; Schuller. Luxembourg scored 47\u00bd points and took 5th place, winning against Spain, Switzerland, Finland and Wales, and losing to Poland, Germany, Netherlands and Denmark.<\/p>\n

4th European Championship. Team: Goerens, Simon, Klauner, Riva, Piscitelli, Gengler, Wealer, Schuller, Feller, Daubenfeld, Schockmel, Hentges. Luxembourg scored 29\u00bd points and took last place, losing all matches against Netherlands, Poland, DDR, Switzerland, Hungary, Belgium, England and Iceland.<\/p>\n

6th European Team Championship. Team: Simon, Weber, Mertens, Schuller, Klauner, Stull, Riva, Kayser, Daubenfeld, Schartz, Rasquin, and Kirsch. Until now, Luxembourg scored 65 \u00bd points out of 120 with wins against Yugoslavia, Estonia, Portugal, and Greece and losses against France, Italy and Germany, and draws with Latvia, Belgium and Israel.<\/p>\n

Friendly matches:<\/p>\n

Luxembourg vs. Hungary 15\u00bd-24\u00bd; vs. Ukraine 12-28; vs. Finland 18-12: vs. North Ireland 13-7; vs. Scotland 3\u00bd-8\u00bd; vs. Germany (Rheinland-Pfalz) 12-8; vs. Latvia 14-6; vs. Portugal 14-2; vs. Norway 16-8; vs. Sweden 8-8; vs. Ireland 12-6; vs. England 8\u00bd-7\u00bd; vs. Japan 6\u00bd-5\u00bd; vs. Canada 2\u00bd-3\u00bd.<\/p>\n

Several players competed in the World Championship Cycle. Additionally, some Luxemburgish players have also competed in European Championships. Finally, a big number of Luxemburgish CC players participated in Memorial tournaments all over the World, and in World Cup Preliminaries and semi-finals.<\/p>\n

1st Luxembourg National CC Championship, 1996-1999. Schuller and Schmit took joint first place with 8\u00bd points in 9 games, with Kayser taking third place with 6 points.<\/p>\n

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The last 10 years Luxembourg had to report some amazing success stories.<\/p>\n

Team results<\/p>\n

Indeed, preliminary group 2 of the 13th\u00a0Olympiad had at 2408 marginally the highest rating average of the 4 groups. Tim Harding quoted in his Chess Mail magazine 6\/1998 that with Argentina, England, Poland, Portugal and Croatia this group is what they call in soccer tournaments \u201cthe group of death\u201d. Our team, with only one player having a title at the start of the event managed to win the group! What a fantastic result!! For the first time in our history we qualified for the final.<\/p>\n

In 2004 we aligned the following team in this final:<\/p>\n