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OPEN Tournament to determine the leagues Rating: Open  124 players (32 max eligible scorers per club, max. 100 players per club)  Mar 26, 2025, 4:15 PM GMT+1, Blitz 5+0, Duration: 24 hours. https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/arena/open-tournament-to-determine-the-leagues-4108373 

The teams that accepted the challenge for the Arena and at least one player participated, are included in this list and will be challenged for future arenas. The teams that decline the challenge are removed from this list. Any other club wishing to be challenged to this league's arenas will leave a message here (only through one of the club admins) and will be challenged to the first available arena. Will be challenged in future FRL arenas: 1. ROMANIA Chess Federation 2. IRAN. 3. Team Romania 4. TEAM BULGARIA LIVE 5. Team Bangladesh 6. Team Latvia 7. Team Colombia 8. Team India 9. Team China 10. Team Ukraine 11. Team Galicia 12 . Team Italia 13. The Netherlands 14. Team Israel

March 26, 2025, 4:15 PM GMT+1 OPEN tournament to determine the leagues. (this tournament will not count for season points) From the standings of this tournament, the teams are distributed as follows: The top 16 teams will play in the 1st Fischer Random League (1FRL). Teams from 17th to 48th place, will play in the 2nd Fischer Random League (2FRL). RULES of the "FISCHER RANDOM LEAGUE" (The league's main goal is to promote the Chess960 variant) 1. Which clubs can participate and free choice of players to play for a club  a. Only clubs that are national or present in the Chess Clubs- Country list (the table that opens at the first click of the menu) are admitted. Exceptions are European Union, International, Olympic, Paralympic. b. In any case, the title of the club must contain the word of the country it represents. It can of course also be written in the local language. c. There is no limit of clubs representing the same country. d. Players have free choice, to choose the club for which they play for that Arena. So they can be members of two or more teams participating in the league. They can change team whenever they want. 2. Accept or not of the challenge to Arena   Important! Teams that do not respond to the challenge at the Arena tournament, lose their place in that league and are relegated to the next lower league. From the lower league, a number of teams will be promoted to fill the places established by this regulation. 3. Multi Club Arena   An Arena (24 hours) is played every week (Wednesday at 7:30 pm GMT+2) for each league. Time control is: 5m + 0s for all the moves of a game. Pairing logic of the Arena: Score-based. 4. Ranking of teams and players a. The top 5 teams/players ranked in each tournament of the week in the 1st league (1FRL), get in order 10 points, 8 points, 6 points, 5 points, 4 points. The first three teams/players ranked in each tournament of the week in the 2nd league (2FRL), get in order: 3 points, 2 points, 1 point. b. In the penultimate week of each year, the last tournament taken into account for the ranking is played. c. The team/player with the most points is declared champion at the end of the season. 5. Divisions a. 1st league/1FRL (16 teams). For organizational purposes, there will also be "FISCHER RANDOM LEAGUE" team which will not count in the ranking. If at least 10 teams are not registered in 2FRL, 1FRL can be supplemented up to 25 teams. Max. 300 players per club. Eligible scorers: 64. The first placed team (Team 1) is the winner of the FISCHER RANDOM LEAGUE for that week. There will be a table listing the name of the winning team for each week of a season. The 2nd (Team 2) and 3rd (Team 3) placed teams will also be registered in that table. Of course, will play 1FRL in the next week tournament. Teams 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, remain in 1FRL for Arena in the next week tournament. Teams 14, 15, 16, down to 2FRL in the next week tournament.  b. 2nd league/2FRL (32 teams). For organizational purposes, there will also be "FISCHER RANDOM LEAGUE" team which will not count in the ranking. If at least 10 teams are not registered in 2FRL, 1FRL can be supplemented up to 25 teams. Max. 200 players per club. Eligible scorers: 32. Team 1, 2 and 3 (in the standings of that week) up to 1FRL for the next week tournament. Team 4 to 27, remain in 2FRL for Arena in the next week tournament.   Team 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, down to 3FRL (if organized) next week tournament. c. If there are registrations exceeding the number required by the first two divisions, the following is organized: 3rd league/3FRL ( maximum 64 teams). For organizational purposes, there will also be "FISCHER RANDOM LEAGUE" team which will not count in the ranking. Max.100 players per club: Eligible scorers: 16. Team 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, up to 2FRL for the next week tournament.  The remaining teams in the ranking (6th to 64th place), remain in 3FRL for the next week tournament. 6. Entry restrictions for these tournaments   In April 2025, there will be no restrictions on the number of games played by players prior to entering the tournament.   From May 1, players will be required to have at least 20 games played in their history. Following that, in the second half of 2025, from July 1, it will be necessary to have 100 games played before entering the tournament in 1FRL, 50 games in 2FRL, 25 games in 3FRL.