Rochade 5171 – 20th anniversary team tournament

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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 70 members from different countries and takes part with 9 teams in the BdF team championship (Bundesliga) and with 10 teams in the ICCF Champions League.

For its 20th anniversary a strong invitational team tournament will be played and the BdF President and former world champion Dr Fritz Baumbach warmly supporting our event.

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

Startdate: 01.11.2009
Deadline: 15.09.2009

We play with 15 teams at 10 boards by ICCF-Server.
All players at the same board play each other - 14 games per player.

It is an invitation tournament. Rochade invates the teams

We play with 15 teams at 10 boards by ICCF-Server.

Your team:
ELO board (> means more than ....):
1: >2500
2-3: >2450
4-6: >2400
7-8: >2350
9-10: >2300

Entry fee: 60 Euro (pro team)

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.



The valid rules are the ICCF playing rules for server tournaments.


The calculation used for this tournament is the team points (2 points for the a won team match, 1 point for a draw), in case of tie break the total points achieved on all boards will decide, then the best results on top boards.

All participants must be members of ICCF federations with possibility to organise international teams (it is not necessary that all members of a team come from the same country).


Thanks to TD and TO: Hans Juergen Isigkeit, GER, BDF

In contentious cases, the executive committee of Rochade 5171 will decide

Harald Moessle
Rochade 5171