ICCF анонсувала прийом заявок на Третій чемпіонат Європи з шахів Фішера 3rd EU Individual Championship 960 preliminares.
У Першому чемпіонаті Європи (2019 – 2021), що зібрав 60 учасників. Переможцем став Дмітрій Морозов (РФ). У Другому чемпіонаті зараз йде боротьба у півфінальних групах, де за вихід у фінал борються черкащани Юлія і Ігор Ткаченки, Світлана Буржанецька і киянин Едуард Москаленко. Поки у них 50% результат і зберігаються шанси на вихід у фінал.
Як і перші два чемпіонати, цей також буде організований у три етапи. На стадії preliminarу у групах буде по 5-6 гравців. Застосовується трьохблоковий контроль часу з тривалістю турніру 302 дні.
Обраховуються рейтинги ICCF 960.
Турнір почнеться 15 листопада 2020 року.
Прийом заявок закінчується 25 жовтня 2020 року.
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3rd EU Chess 960 Individual Championship

ICCF Europa is delighted to announce new tournament at chess 960 - the EU Chess 960 Individual Championship.
The tournament will be played by server and will be organized in three stages (might be in two stages depending from the number of the entries). The sections of the preliminary round will have 5 to 6 players (8 or 10 games) with 2 qualified for the next round. All sections will be with double round robin (players will have the same position with Black and White but all positions will defer from one opponent to another). Time control will be Triple Block (Duration of Tournament: 302 days, Initial Clock: 50 days, Initial Bank: 51 days, Increment: 1 day). The event will be rated for Chess 960 rating system.
Entries
Players may enter in the usual way through the ICCF Server Entry System. The closing of the registrations is 25th of October 2021. A player may apply for more than one preliminary section.
Entry fee is 6 Euro.
Allocation of players to their sections will be made as random as possible; however, geographical distribution as well as an achievement of reasonable equality of the average rating will be taken into account.
Tournament Organization
The tournament will start on November 15, 2021. The closing of the registrations is October 25, 2020 to allow for pairings
The semifinal stage is expected to be started not later than September 15, 2022.
The final is expected to be started not later than August 15, 2023.
Qualifications
The winner and the runner-up of each preliminary section will qualify for the next round. Qualifications to the Final depend on number of semifinal sections.
Although the number of preliminary sections which each player may enter is unlimited, no player will qualify for more than two semifinal sections or more than one place in the final.
Member Federations are asked to give the tournament wide publicity to all their players.
We wish all participants many interesting games and new connections with CC friends in other countries, based on the spirit of friendship and the ICCF motto AMICI SUMUS.
Tournament Organiser: SIM Andrey Pavlikov, IA, EU Zonal Director