46th Swiss Team Chess Championship: 1996

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46th Swiss Team Chess Championship
(see all-time tournament summary)
Dates: March - October 1996
City: Various locations (season-long competition)
Tournament Director:
Chief Arbiter:
Teams participating: 10
8 teams retained from 1995
New participants: SF Reichenstein and CS Mendrisio. Mendrisio promotion confirmed in the club history. Reichenstein promotion route remains unverified.
Players participating: 114 (incl. 16 GMs, 31 IMs and 27 FMs)
Games played: 360 (6 games were forfeited)
Competition format: Round Robin
Final order decided by: 1. Match points; 2. Game points
Time control:
Sources: Eleven supplied newspaper screenshots: NZZ 77, 99, 150, 209, 240, 251 (1996) and Le Nouvelliste 141 (1996). sui-SMM.pgn. FIDE January and July 1996. Dates reconstructed under the rule confirmed by the user.
Data notes: Provisional audit: 360 board results. Newspaper match totals disagree with individual results in two round-5 matches. Calculated board totals are Biel 45.5 and Zurich 46, versus published 46 and 45.5. Published final places retained. Three round-4 results corrected from the newspaper, all source moves preserved. Round 6 date unknown. Source identity conflicts: Roger/Olivier Moor in round 5 and Vitomir/Nedeljko Malesevic. Several names and federations require verification.
PGN game file: 96swiss.pgn