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Hi friends.We're now in the final ending of European League 2011, and now looking forward for next season - European League 2012.The European League forum for EL2012 will be here:http://www.chess.com/groups/home/european-league-2012Preparations are ongoing in this forum.The teams of EL2011 will be dividided into following divisions according to this:http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/el2012---dividing-teams-into-divisionsThe target is to have all certain preparations ready by the end of December, so that next season can start already by the 1st of January 2012!

Friends. It's time for European League 2011!Here more about the tournament setup and rules:http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/el2011---tournament-setup-and-rulesNote! The target is to start EL2011 on 1st of February! Please carefully read about the setup and rules.And here about the teams and which divisions they playing in:http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/el2011---dividing-teams-into-divisionsNote! Please check witch division you will play in, and against which teams! Please join to European League 2011 forum to be kept properly informed:Join this GroupNote! Please ensure that at least one team admin join and representing and managing your team in the European League 2011.--------------------- IMPORTANT INFORMATION:There're is one free spot in Division 2 and two free spots in Division 3.WHICH TEAM SHOULD GET THE FREE SPOT IN DIVISION 2 ? Team Points 2011-01-09 Team Ukraine 2379 Team Austria 2308 Team Wales 1459 Team Lithuania 1306 Summary: Team Ukraine will be invited, due to be the best ranked on TM leaderboard. They must accept this before Sunday 23th of January, otherwise will the next best ranked team get the invitation instead. WHICH TEAMS SHOULD GET THE FREE SPOTS IN DIVISION 3? Team Points 2011-01-09 Team Greece 6306 Chess Team Holland 4422 Team Bulgaria 3931 Team France 3728 Team Georgia 1751 Hungarian Chess Group 1335 Team Azerbaijan 1040 Team Iceland 822 Team Kosovo 813 Team Malta 665 Team Estonia 410 Team Faroe Islands 334 Team MonteNegro 209 Team Luxembourg 167 Team Switzerland 0 Team Northern Ireland 0 Summary: Team Greece and Chess Team Holland will be invited to Division 3. They must accept this invitation before Sunday 23th of January, otherwise will the next best teams be invited instead. New teams that not have participated in the European League previous season will be invited to Division 4. RESERVATIONIn some countries there exists several country teams. The best ranked (on the Team Match Leaderboard) is to be invited to the European League 2011.It means that some country teams that have represented their countries during European League 2010 might will be compared to and replaced by other country teams. This is to be conducted before Sunday 23th of January.NEXT STEPThis forum and the list of teams per division will be updated on Sunday 23th of January according to occurring acceptances of the invitations and the qualificiation of some teams.

Here's more information about the European League 2010:http://www.chess.com/groups/home/european-league-2010A good starting point is the STARTPAGE:http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/el2010---startpagePlease join to European League 2010 forum to be kept properly informed:Join this Group

''A'' Albania: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-albania Andorra: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-andorra Austria: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-austria Azerbaijan: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-azerbaijan Armenia: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-armenia ''B'' Belarus: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-belarus Belgium: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-belgium BiH: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-bosnia-herzegovina Bulgaria: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-bulgaria ''C'' Croatia: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-croatia Chech R.: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/the-czech-republic-team Cyprus: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-cyprus Catalonia: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-catalonia ''D'' Denmark: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-denmark ''E'' Estonia: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-estonia England: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-england ''F'' Faroe Islands: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-faroe-islands Finland: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-finland France:http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-france ''G'' Galicia: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-galicia Georgia: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-georgia Germany: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-germany Grecce: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-grecce ''H'' Hungary: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/hungarian-chess-group ???? Holland: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/chess-team-holland ??? ''I'' Iceland: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-iceland Ireland: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-ireland Italia: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-italia ''J'' ''K'' Kosovo: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-kosovo ''L'' Latvia: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-latvia Liechtenstein: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-liechtenstein Lithuania: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-lithuania Luxembourg: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-luxembourg ''M'' Macedonia: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-macedonia Malta: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-malta Moldova: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-moldova MonteNegro: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-montenegro ''N'' Norway: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-norway ''O'' ''P'' Poland: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-poland Portugal: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/cafeacute-xadrez---team-portugal ?????? ''Q'' ''R'' Romania: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-romania Russia: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-russia ''S'' San Marino ????? Scotland: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-scotland Serbia: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/serbian-group ????? Slovakia: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-Slovakia Slovenia: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-slovenija Spain: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-spain Sweden: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-sweden Switzerland: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-switzerland ''T'' Turkey: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-turkey ''U'' Ukraine: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-ukraine ''V'' ''W'' Wales: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/team-wales ''X'' ''Y'' ''Z'' If anything missed let me know !!! ;)

More information about European League 2009:http://www.chess.com/groups/home/european-league Tournament Rules:http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/tournament-rulesTournament Divisions:http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/tournament-divisionsInstructions for Round 1 and 2:http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/instructions-round-1http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/instructions-for-round-2Reporting match results:http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/reporting-match-results

Hi. Here some simple initial policies. Please feel free add your comments. We might need to adjust the policies and align them to to changing realities later on.MembershipOnly for Group Leaders, super admin, and admins of european national teams or european regional teams, and super admins/admins of Team Europe. Members must be a member in any of the european national or regional teams and representing an european country. Admin rightsOnly given to Only for Group Leaders, super admin, and admins of european national teams or european regional teams. Only for chess.com premium members. At least given to one single representant for each team, in first hand to the Group Leader, in second hand to any super admin, in third hand to any admin. Admins are only allowed to invite or remove members due to changing roles within their own teams. Make a note to wish new members welcome or say good bye to removed members when applicable. Usage of Admin rightsEvery admin of this team agrees upon cooperate in a friendly, gentle, open minded, cooperative, and positive spirit. Note! Complimentary instructions will be added later on. Remove or ban membersAll members agree upon acting in a friendly and gentle manner towards all other members if this team. Any obstacles not of general interest should preferrably and normally be handled and solved beside/outside this team. Members that don't fullfil the rules or instructions above could be removed as admins or in worst case even removed and/or banned (only) by the super admin or responsible group leaders in cooperation. (Hopefully, this will not be applicable in any case!)

For individual european chess.com premium members. Read more on: http://www.chess.com/tournament/european-championship-2009 Please promote this tournament!Please add your comments, i.e. any remarks on tournament settings, like rating conditions and timing.