Report#7 on Match Witold's Friends - Rest of the World, registration closed

Thursday, February 2, 2012: Please see below for the latest update and verify yourself on the list. Pairings will start on 05.02.2012.

Details of the match in the announcement (http://kszgk.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Announcement-match-Witolds-Friends-v.-Rest-of-the-World-updated.pdf).

The Polish Correspondence Chess Federation, with support of ICCF, is the organizer of the friendly match Witold’s Friends – Rest of the World.

This match is organized in a standard format with one opponent for each player and two games to play (one game with white and one game with black) and will be played on the ICCF webserver with a rate of play of 10 moves in 50 days or by post with a rate of play of 10 moves in 30 days. The event will be rated.

Registration was closed on 01.02.2012.

After closing date, we have 492 qualified entries from 480 players from 54 countries, including 88 entries from titled players (15xGM, 40xSIM, 31xIM, 1xLGM, 1xILM), with the highest rating 2579. World Champion Dr. Fritz Baumbach has favoured us as well, in addition twice: by server and by post!
Those countries with 20 or more entries are: Poland 65, Spain 36, Germany 35, USA 34, Czech Republic 32, Russia 26, England 24, Romania 20.

Thank you very much for so broad participation in this friendly match in tribute to Witold!

Details on the entries after registration closing you can find in Report #7 (http://kszgk.com/bielecki/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/WF-RoW_entries120202.htm) at Polish cc website (http://kszgk.com/bielecki/?page_id=36).

URGENT! Entry list presented above is assumed to be valid. However national delegates (or responsible national representatives) and/or entrants are asked to verify it and report immediately any inconsistency to match organizer, but not later than 04.02.2012, because pairings will start on 05.02.2012.

Match will start on 01.03.2012 with no end date.

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Amici sumus
Mariusz Wojnar
Match Organizer