There is a number of international team tournaments scheduled for forthcoming months:
---The 27th
Mitropa Cup will be held from 24 May to 4 June, 2008 in Olbia, Italy at the Archaeologic Museum. The organizer of this event is Italian Chess Federation. The tournament will be organized with two separate sections, for men and women.
The participants will be the chess federations of Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland. The organiser is the European Chess Union. Each team will be composed of four men plus one reserve (for men`s section), two women plus one reserve (for women`s section) and one team captain. Time control will be 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to finish the game, with 30 seconds increment after each move starting from move 1. Each team is provided full board accommodation in one triple room and three double rooms in Hotel **** stars. Additional single rooms and accommodation for accompanying persons can be organised.
The Web site of the tournament. Read FIDE note
here.
Downloads:
Regulations (pdf),
Registration Form (xls) ---The annual
European Youth Team Championship will take place in Szeged, Hungary, 13th-22nd June. The championship is open for players born after January 1st, 1990. All European National Federations affiliated to FIDE/ECU are kindly invited to participate in the championship. Each European National Federation affiliated to FIDE/ECU has the right to be represented by one or more boy's team of four players and one reserve and by one or more girl's team of two players and one reserve player.
The Hungarian Chess Federation intends to provide boys and girls during their vacation for a competition in order to promote their chess development, and - at the same time - for organized holidays in a pleasant youth summer resort at river Tisza. The General Assembly of European Chess Federation (ECU) was in favour of having such a European Youth Team Championships U-18. This tournament is declared as official European event.
The tournament will be seven round swiss. Time control: 90 30. Final standings will be decided by game points.
The Web site of the tournament. Read FIDE note
here.
Downloads:
Invitation (pdf),
Registration Form (xls) ---The 4th
World School Chess Teams Championship will be held in Pardubice, the Czech Republic from 9th to 17th July 2008. The organizers of this championship are: FIDE, The International School Chess Union, The Chess Federation of the Czech Republic, AVE-KONTAKT Pardubice agency. The Children Clubs Championship will be organized within the frame of the World School Championship. The tournaments for school chess teams will be in categories U10, U12, U14, U16.
Each national federation may enter an unlimited number of school teams and clubs. Team composition for School Team Tournament is four pupils from the same school and in the same age`s group; any combination of boys and girls is possible. The tournament will be organized in four age categories - U10, U12, U14 and U16.
The event will be seven round Swiss. The time rate should be 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.
FIDE shall award the title of FIDE Candidate Master to each player of the winning team, subject to the individual achieving 50% from games played.Read FIDE note
here.
Downloads:
General regulations (pdf)---The 38th
Chess Olympiad will take place in Dresden, Germany, the Congress Centre from 12th till 25th November. The organisers are the City of Dresden and the German Chess Federation (DSB). The World Chess Olympiad is open to all Federations affiliated to FIDE as members, each of which can nominate one team for the open and the women’s section, respectively. For the first time in the history women's teams will play at four boards. The number of players in both men's and women's teams was set to five (four players and one reserve). The event was shortened to 11 rounds. Time control is 40 moves in 90 minutes and 30 minutes more to finish the game. There is an increment of 30 seconds added on for every move from move 1.
As for April 15th, as much as 75 nations pre-registered, including newcomer team of Maledives. There are 150 men's and 120 women's team expected with over 1,500 players on the board. The event will be assisted by ca. 150 arbiters and 400 journalists.
The Web site of the tournament.
Downloads:
Pre-tournament bulletin (pdf)