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In the second season of the EIRC Knockout tournaments 16 clubs will play in the main event. Clubs, which will lose their match in the first round of this main tournament, will be placed in a second tournament as well. In case of a drawn match, Berlin Score will be tiebreaker. New clubs can register for a Qualifier tournament, which will determine four participants in our third Knockout tournament.

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EIRC Grand Prix 2024 is played between 16 clubs qualifying from national championships (United Kingdom/Ireland, Italy, Slovakia and Germany) and from the EIRC Masters 2023. Group stage (four groups of four clubs each) will be played on 10+ boards with rounds starting on January 28, February 25 and March 24. Group winners will advance to a final round and qualify for the EIRC Grand Prix 2025.

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The EIRC U1700 Classic Cup will be played as a multi stage tournament: First stage will be a round robin tournament in groups of 3 (or 4) clubs each. Probably in Summer 2023 the winner of group 1 will face the 2nd placed club of group 2 (match A), the second placed club of group 1 the winner of group 2 (match B), the winner of group 3 the second placed club of group 4 (match C) and the second placed club of group 3 the winner of group 4 (match D). The winners in the matches A and D (B and C) will face each other in the semi finals.The winners of the semi finals will play final matches, while the losers will determine the third placed club.

Our Chess960 season 2022/23 is played in two divisions: EIRC 960 Masters (eight clubs, 5+ boards, from September 18 to April 16) andEIRC 960 Open (ten clubs, 3+ boards, from September 18 to June 18).

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EIRC Grand Prix 2023 is played between 16 clubs qualifying from national championships (United Kingdom/Ireland, Italy, Slovakia and Germany) and from the EIRC OPEN 2022. Group stage (four groups of four clubs each) will be played on 10+ boards with rounds starting on January 22, February 26 and March 26. Group winners will advance to a final round and qualify for the EIRC Grand Prix 2024.

The EIRC Four Musketeers 2022/23 is a five round Swiss system tournament. Teams of four clubs each are playing all four clubs of another team in each round on 4+ boards.

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The EIRC U1700 Classic Cup will be played as a multi stage tournament: First stage will be a round robin tournament in groups of 3 clubs each. Matches will be played on September 12, October 10 and 31 with 3 days/move and with teams of 4 players each). Probably in March 2022 the winner of group 1 will face the 2nd placed club of group 2 (match A), the second placed club of group 1 the winner of group 2 (match B), the winner of group 3 the second placed club of group 4 (match C) and the second placed club of group 3 the winner of group 4 (match D). The winners in the matches A and D (B and C) will face each other in the semi finals.The winners of the semi finals will play final matches, while the losers will determine the third placed club.

The EIRC Knockout 2021/22 tournaments will be played from July 2021 (round 1) to July 2022 (finals) on 5+ boards. List of participants: EIRC Knockout 2021/22 #1 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Royal County of Berkshire #2 🇸🇰 Team Presovsky kray #3 🇮🇹 Team Emilia-Romagna #4 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Tayside Fife and Stirlingshire #5 🇮🇪 Munster #6 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Lanarkshire #7 🇪🇸 Team Asturias #8 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Derbyshire County Chess #9 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh-Lothian #10 🇩🇪 Rochade Südbayern #11 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Hertfordshire County Chess #12 🇩🇪 Die Baden-Württemberger #13 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Team Lincolnshire #14 🇩🇪 Union Rheinland-Pfalz-Saar #15 🇩🇪 Springer Niedersachsen #16 🇩🇪 Die Rheinländer EIRC Knockout III 2021/22 #1 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Team Nottinghamshire #2 🇬🇧 Team Channel Islands #3 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Cefn Gwlad Cymru #4 🇫🇷 Team Occitanie #5 🇩🇪 Rot-Weiß Hessen #6 🇩🇪 Schachfreunde Hamburg #7 🇩🇪 Berliner Schachbären #8 🇩🇪 Schachfreunde Sachsen . Clubs, which will lose their round 1 match in the main tournament, will continue in the Knockout II tournament.