In 1989 the association "Chessfriends Rochade 5171" was founded in order to participate only in correspondance chess team competitions. Presently Rochade 5171 is represented by 78 members from different countries and takes part with 9 teams in the BdF team championship (Bundesliga) and with 17 teams in the ICCF Champions League .

For its 15th anniversary a strong invitational team tournament will be played and the BdF President and former world champion Dr Fritz Baumbach is warmly supporting our event .

The tournament is supported by the BdF (particularlyby its President Dr.Baumbach) and was confirmed from ICCF, thus it is possible to participants to achieve ICCF norms GM, SIM or IM, and and the games will be taken into account for the ICCF rating.

Your team:

Board 
1-3 should about 2450 
4-6: about 2400 
7-8: about 2350 
9-10: 2300 

The winner gets a premium of 500 Euro.

It is an invitation tournament with the following teams:
BDF - All STAR team 
ICCF - All STAR team

Internatinonal teams of the zones:
Afika/Asia
Latin America
Europe
North America

National Teams 

a Team of ChessMail (Tim Harding)

We play with 15 teams at 10 boards by email.

Start: 1.5.2004.
Deadline for application is 01.04.2004

Prize money for this tournament are :
500 Euro for the winning team,
200 Euro for the runner-up and
100 Euro for the 3rd place.

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