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May 19, 2005

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Rochade team event

Chess Mail has a strong team in the ten-board email team tournament, to celebrate the 'Rochade 5171' club's 15th anniversary. Play officially began on May 1, 2004 and the event is now approaching its final phase when matches will be decided.

Our team captain is Mats Larsson (Sweden) who is doing a very efficient job. Thanks a million, Mats!

Completed games of our team are published here and are available for download in a PGN file.

Please go to the results table page from which there are links to the games that you can play through.

This is an ICCF-approved tournament with title norms available (there are even GM norms on boards 1-7). The other teams will represent ICCF, its four zones, Rochade-Europa club (2 teams) and national teams from the Czech Republic, Germany (2 teams), Italy, Sweden, The Netherlands and USA. In all, there are 15 teams (14 games per player).

The players for Chess Mail in board order are:

1. SIM Kiyotaka Sakai (Japan)

2. SIM-elect Henrik B. Pedersen (Denmark)

3. IM Rene Freydl (Switzerland)

substituting for SIM Darrell Nightingale (Ireland)

4. GM Josep Mercadal Benejam (Spain)

5. Martin Bennedik (Germany)

6. Mats Larsson (Sweden) (TEAM CAPTAIN)

7. John Elburg (Netherlands)

8. IM Stephan Arounopoulos (Germany)

9. Gerald Grimsley (USA)

10. Peter Jonckheere (Belgium).

Our team's rating average (on the April 2004 list applying to this event) is 2444.