NOTIFICATION #1:
Team Ukraine have preliminary accepted the invitation. Vovuha have asked "how to accept", and I believe that means they would like to participate....
EL2011 - Division 2


NOTIFICATION #1:
Team Ukraine have preliminary accepted the invitation. Vovuha have asked "how to accept", and I believe that means they would like to participate....
Team Ukraine also confirmed their acceptance. By this are all spots in Division 2 finally allocated!

Here's a the final division setup for EL2011 and the official ranking for the teams in DIVISION2. The match list will be generated according this rankings.
DIVISION 2 | Comment | Ranking | Rank |
2011-01-29 | |||
Team Portugal | From Div 1 | 6687 | #1 |
Team Macedonia | Stay #4 | 6682 | #2 |
Team Belgium | Stay #5 | 6065 | #3 |
Team Croatia | Stay #8 | 5517 | #4 |
Team of the Czech Republic | Stay #7 | 4729 | #5 |
Team Armenia | Stay #6 | 3984 | #6 |
Team Catalonia | Stay #9 | 3450 | #7 |
Chess Club Finland | From Div 1 | 3214 | #8 |
Team Moldova | From Div 3 | 2951 | #9 |
Team Ukraine | Stay #10 | 2519 | #10 |
Team Scotland | From Div 3 | 2210 | #11 |
Team Latvia | From Div 3 | 1393 | #12 |

Is it OK if Team Moldova won't set min 20 players limit for a match?
It's really hard for us to have so many players in official EL/WL matches (I'm talking about players with a moldavian flag).

Current results and standings updated for Division 2:
Updated: 2011-03-05 | |||||
CURRENT STANDINGS | Status | Matches | Current scores | Place | Change |
Team Croatia | OK | 2 | 148 | 1 | |
Team Belgium | OK | 2 | 90 | 2 | |
Team Catalonia | OK | 1 | 67 | 3 | |
Team of the Czech Republic | OK | 1 | 26 | 4 | |
Team Ukraine | OK | 1 | 22 | 5 | |
Team Portugal | OK | 1 | 21 | 6 | |
Team Moldova | OK | 1 | 19 | 7 | |
Team Scotland | OK | 1 | 8 | 8 | |
Team Armenia | ? | 0 | 0 | 9 | |
Team Latvia | ? | 0 | 0 | 9 | |
Team Macedonia | OK | 1 | 0 | 9 | |
Chess Club Finland | OK | 1 | 0 | 9 |
Most recent Standings and Schedule is always available here:
http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/el2011---division-2---standings-and-schedule

Current results and standings for Division 2 updated:
Updated: 2011-03-23 | |||||
CURRENT STANDINGS | Status | Matches | Current scores | Place | Change |
Team Croatia | OK | 2 | 238 | 1 | .+/- |
Team Belgium | OK | 2 | 147 | 2 | .+/- |
Team of the Czech Republic | OK? | 1 | 87 | 3 | .+1 |
Team Ukraine | OK | 2 | 81 | 4 | .+1 |
Team Catalonia | OK? | 1 | 61 | 5 | .-2 |
Team Portugal | OK? | 1 | 61 | 5 | .+1 |
Team Moldova | OK | 2 | 42 | 7 | .+/- |
Team Scotland | OK | 2 | 37 | 8 | .+/- |
Chess Club Finland | OK | 2 | 36 | 9 | .+/- |
Team Macedonia | OK? | 1 | 22 | 10 | .-1 |
Team Armenia | OK? | 0 | 0 | 11 | .-2 |
Team Latvia | OK? | 0 | 0 | 11 | .-2 |

Updated: 2011-03-23 | ||||||||||||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | SUM | ||
1 | Team Portugal | x | 61 | 61 | ||||||||||
2 | Team Macedonia | x | 22 | 22 | ||||||||||
3 | Team Belgium | x | 30 | ## | 147 | |||||||||
4 | Team Croatia | ## | x | ## | 238 | |||||||||
5 | Team of the Czech Republic | x | 87 | 87 | ||||||||||
6 | Team Armenia | x | 0 | |||||||||||
7 | Team Catalonia | 61 | x | 61 | ||||||||||
8 | Chess Club Finland | 6 | x | 30 | 36 | |||||||||
9 | Team Moldova | 28 | x | 14 | 42 | |||||||||
10 | Team Ukraine | 32 | 49 | x | 81 | |||||||||
11 | Team Scotland | 27 | 10 | x | 37 | |||||||||
12 | Team Latvia | x | 0 |

Updated: 2011-03-23 | |
MATCH LIST | Status |
ROUND 1 (February) | |
Team Portugal - Team Catalonia | Started |
Team Macedonia - Chess Club Finland | Started |
Team Belgium - Team Moldova | Started |
Team Croatia - Team Ukraine | Started |
Team of the Czech Republic - Team Scotland | Started |
Team Armenia - Team Latvia | Open |
ROUND 2 (March) | |
Team Portugal - Team Armenia | Open |
Team Macedonia - Team of the Czech Republic | Open |
Team Belgium - Team Croatia | Started WL |
Team Catalonia - Team Latvia | Open |
Chess Club Finland - Team Scotland | Started |
Team Moldova - Team Ukraine | Started |
ROUND 3 (March) | |
Team Catalonia - Team Armenia | Not started |
Chess Club Finland - Team Portugal | Not started |
Team Moldova - Team Macedonia | Open |
Team Ukraine - Team Belgium | Not started |
Team Scotland - Team Croatia | Not started |
Team Latvia - Team of the Czech Republic | Not started |
Comment: Many games still open for registration. Many games in Round 3 not challanged yet. Please lock your rosters in open games, and send challanges for the other ones! Good Luck!

Current results and standings updated for Division 2:
http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/el2011---division-2---standings-and-schedule
Not so good progress starting up new games!
Here's the current list of open games or not challanged games.
Please lock your rosters in open games, and please startup your games!
Good Luck!
ROUND 2 (March) | |
Team Macedonia - Team of the Czech Republic | Open |
ROUND 3 (March) | |
Team Scotland - Team Croatia | Not started |
Team Latvia - Team of the Czech Republic | Not started |
ROUND 4 (April) | |
Team Macedonia - Team Belgium | Not started |
Team of the Czech Republic - Team Portugal | Not started |
Team Armenia - Team Croatia | Not started |
Team Scotland - Team Catalonia | Not started |
Team Latvia - Team Ukraine | Not started |

Current results and standings updated for Division 2:
http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/el2011---division-2---standings-and-schedule
Unfortunately only one game open for registration in Round 4 so far.
Bad progress starting up the games in this round.
In general especially bad progress starting up the games by Team Latvia and Team of the Czech Republic. Please starting up the games in Round 4 as soon as possible.
Many exiting games are ongoing. Seem like many of the teams are pretty even which make the matches even. I would say that all teams still got an opportunity fighting to be promoted to Division 1.
Next round (=Round 5) will start by the 1st of May.

challenge sent, sorry for the delay...
http://www.chess.com/groups/view_team_match_challenge.html?id=101147

http://www.chess.com/groups/team_match.html?id=68416
EL2011 round 5: Team Macedonia vs. Team Ukraine

Chalenge send to Team Belgium but they did not respond... ?!
Thisi is the link:
http://www.chess.com/groups/view_team_match_challenge.html?id=96936

Sorry, I just saw an error in the match list for Round 5. The list is corrected, and now looks like this:
ROUND 5 (May) | |
Team Portugal - Team Moldova | Not started |
Team Macedonia - Team Ukraine | Not started |
Team Belgium - Team Scotland | Not started |
Chess Club Finland - Team Latvia | Not started |
Team of the Czech Republic - Team Catalonia | Not started |
Team Armenia - Team Croatia | Not started |
Chess Club Finland shall play against Team Latvia, and Team Croatia should of course only playing one game in this round as all the other teams...

Current results and standings updated for Division 2:
http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/el2011---division-2---standings-and-schedule
I appologize. Some errors have occurred in the match list, so I have to find out what have went wrong and trying to adjust it before next round (=Round 7) starts.
I've temporarily made some minor adjustments for Round 5 and 6, and I've covered that one match was missing that also have to start up, i.e. between Team Croatia and Team Latvia.
So here is the current list of games in round 1-6 that still have to startup:
ROUND 3 (March) | |
Team Latvia - Team of the Czech Republic | Not started |
ROUND 4 (April) | |
Team of the Czech Republic - Team Portugal | Open |
Team Latvia - Team Ukraine | Not started |
ROUND 5 (May) | |
Team Macedonia - Team Ukraine | Open |
Team of the Czech Republic - Team Catalonia | Not started |
Team Latvia - Team Croatia *1 | Not started |
ROUND 6 (May) | |
Team of the Czech Republic - Team Belgium | Not started |
Team Armenia - Team Macedonia | Not started |
Team Catalonia - Team Ukraine | Not started |
Chess Club Finland - Team Latvia *1 | Open |
Please send challenges and lock your rosters prefferably now during May!
I will send a separate reminder to Team Latvia and Team of the Czech Republic since they haven't yet started so many games at all. Why?

EL 2011 R3 Team Latvia vs Team of the Czech Republic
http://www.chess.com/groups/team_match.html?id=72463

EL 2011 R5 Team of the Czech Republic vs Team Catalonia
challenge sent
http://www.chess.com/groups/view_team_match_challenge.html?id=106931
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Most recent standings and schedule is available here:
http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/el2011---division-2---standings-and-schedule