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Rules: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/wcl-2025-rules Team contacts: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/wcl-2025-team-contacts All match results are preliminary and indicative (occasionally updated by hand). Consult https://chessteams.info/ for live results and rankings. Two teams promote to Division 3. Results may change due to ex-post corrections (see rules) until the cut-off dates on September, 30th (for relegation) and December, 31st (for the final ranking). . Cross Table    Jak Khm Bir Chi Far Dub Lee Oxf Dha Tlm total Jakarta (INA)   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Khmelnitskiy (UKR) 1   1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 7 Birmingham (GBR) 1 0   0 0 0 0 0 0 1  2  Chisinau (MDA) 0 0 0   0 0 0 0 0 0  0  Farsley (GBR) 0 0 0 0   1 0 0 1 1  3  Dublin (IRL) 1 0 1 1 0   0 0 0 0.5 3.5  Leeds (GBR) 1 0 1 1 1 1   1 0 1 7  Oxford (GBR) 1 0 1 1 1 1 0   0 1 6  Dhaka (BGD)  1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1   1 8  Tlmače (SVK) 1 1 0 1 0 0.5 0 0 0   3.5  . Pairings Team A   Team B match ID players raw result corrected result match points Round 1 (announcement: 2024-10-23, start: 2024-11-06) Jakarta vs Tlmače 1695039   6  5-7  5-7  0-1 Khmelnitskiy vs Dhaka 1693939  10  7.5-12.5  9.5-10.5  0-1 Birmingham vs Oxford 1694101   6  5-7  5-7  0-1 Chisinau vs Leeds 1694617   5     0-10  0-10  0-1 Farsley vs Dublin 1696547  11  12.5-9.5  12.5-9.5  1-0                 Round 2 (announcement: 2024-11-20, start: 2024-12-04) Tlmače vs Dublin  1707007   5  5-5  5-5  0.5-0.5 Leeds vs Farsley  1708103   6  8-4  8-4  1-0 Oxford vs Chisinau  3030027>  --      1-0 Dhaka vs Birmingham  1707605   8  9-7  9-7  1-0 Jakarta vs Khmelnitskiy  1707109  --      0-1                 Round 3 (announcement: 2024-12-18, start: 2025-01-01) Khmelnitskiy vs Tlmače  1717839  5 4.5-5.5  4.5-5.5  0-1 Birmingham vs Jakarta  1717171  6 6.5-5.5   6.5-5.5  1-0 Chisinau vs Dhaka 3045109<  --      0-1 Farsley vs Oxford  3045225<  --      0-1 Dublin vs Leeds  1717211  9  4-14  4-14  0-1                 Round 4 (announcement: 2025-01-22, start: 2025-02-05) Tlmače vs Leeds 1732259  5 4-6   4-6  0-1 Oxford vs Dublin  1732185  6  9.5-2.5  9.5-2.5  1-0  Dhaka vs Farsley  1734507  6 5-7   5-7  0-1 Jakarta vs Chisinau    --      0-0 Khmelnitskiy vs Birmingham  1732187  7  8.5-5.5  9-7  1-0                  Round 5 (announcement: 2025-02-19, start: 2025-03-05) Birmingham vs Tlmače  1748127  --      1-0 Chisinau vs Khmelnitskiy 3081341<  --      0-1 Farsley vs Jakarta    --      0-0 Dublin vs Dhaka  1747955  5  4.5-5.5  4.5-5.5  0-1 Leeds vs Oxford  1746467  6  6.5-5.5  6.5-5.5  1-0                 Round 6 (announcement: 2025-03-19, start: 2025-04-02) Tlmače vs Oxford  1760127  5  4.5-5.5  4.5-5.5  0-1 Dhaka vs Leeds  1760251  8  8.5-7.5  8.5-7.5  0-1 Jakarta vs Dublin  1762455  --      0-1 Khmelnitskiy vs Farsley  1761583  7  12.5-1.5  12.5-1.5  1-0  Birmingham vs Chisinau    --      0-0                 Round 7 (announcement: 2025-04-23, start: 2025-05-07) Chisinau vs Tlmače  3124982  <      0-1 Farsley vs Birmingham    --      0-0 Dublin vs Khmelnitskiy 1776542  5  0.5-9.5  0.5-9.5  0-1 Leeds vs Jakarta 1776978  5  9-1  9-1  1-0 Oxford vs Dhaka  1778240  7  10-4  10-4  1-0                 Round 8 (announcement: 2025-05-21, start: 2025-06-04) Tlmače vs Dhaka  1792736  --      0-1 Jakarta vs Oxford  1791918  --      0-1 Khmelnitskiy vs Leeds  1791562  6  7-5  7-5  1-0 Birmingham vs Dublin    --      0-1 Chisinau vs Farsley    --      0-0                 Round 9 (announcement: 2025-06-18, start: 2025-07-02) Farsley vs Tlmače  1804954  --      1-0 Dublin vs Chisinau  3154586  >      1-0 Leeds vs Birmingham  --        1-0 Oxford vs Khmelnitskiy 1803652  5  7.5-2.5  7.5-2.5  1-0 Dhaka vs Jakarta  1804078  --      1-0      

Rules: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/wcl-2025-rules Team contacts: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/wcl-2025-team-contacts All match results are preliminary and indicative (occasionally updated by hand). Consult https://chessteams.info/ for live results and rankings. Two teams promote to Division 3. Results may change due to ex-post corrections (see rules) until the cut-off dates on September, 30th (for relegation) and December, 31st (for the final ranking). . Cross Table    SdC Her NDe Bra Man Dar Bor Phi Che Not total Santiago (CHI)   0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0  2 Hertford (GBR) 1   0.5 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 6.5 New Delhi (IND) 0 0.5   1 0 0 0 0 0 0  1.5  Bradford (GBR) 1 0 0   1 . 0  0  0 1  3 Manila (PHI) 1 1 1 0   0 0 0 0 0  3 Darwin (AUS) 0 0 0 1 1   0.5 0 0 0 2.5  Bordeaux (FRA) 0 0 1 1 1 0.5   0 1 0  4.5 Philadelphia (USA) 1 0 1 1 1 1 1   1 0  7 Chelmsford (GBR)   1  1 1 1 1 1 0 0   0 6 Nottingham (GBR) 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1    7  . Pairings Team A   Team B match ID players rawresult correctedresult matchpoints Round 1 (announcement: 2024-10-23, start: 2024-11-06) Santiago vs Nottingham 1694407  11  5-17  5-17  0-1 Hertford vs Chelmsford 1694027  17  9.5-24.5  9.5-24.5  0-1  New Delhi vs Philadelphia 1696433   6  5-7  5-7  0-1  Bradford vs Bordeaux  1696513  --       0-1 Manila vs Darwin 1694813  --       0-1                 Round 2 (announcement: 2024-11-20, start: 2024-12-04) Nottingham vs Darwin  1706689  6  10-2  10-2  1-0 Bordeaux vs Manila  1707579  9  11-7  11-7  1-0  Philadelphia vs Bradford  1706797  6  10-2  10-2  1-0   Chelmsford vs New Delhi  3030029>  --      1-0 Santiago vs Hertford  1706853  8  5-11  5-11  0-1                 Round 3 (announcement: 2024-12-18, start: 2025-01-01) Hertford vs Nottingham  1717147  9  11-7  11-7  1-0 New Delhi vs Santiago    --      0-0 Bradford vs Chelmsford  1717837  5  4.5-5.5  4.5-5.5  0-1 Manila vs Philadelphia  1717505  --      0-1 Darwin vs Bordeaux  1718255  6  6-6  6-6  0.5-0.5                 Round 4 (announcement: 2025-01-22, start: 2025-02-05) Nottingham vs Bordeaux  1732211  9  10.5-7.5  10.5-7.5  1-0 Philadelphia vs Darwin  1732253  6  10.5-1.5  10.5-1.5  1-0 Chelmsford vs Manila  1732201  5  7-3  7-3  1-0  Santiago vs Bradford  1736413  --      0-1 Hertford vs New Delhi  1733147  7  7-7    0.5-0.5                 Round 5 (announcement: 2025-02-19, start: 2025-03-05) New Delhi vs Nottingham  1748469  8  6-10  6-10  0-1  Bradford vs Hertford  1748249  7  6-8  6-8  1-0 Manila vs Santiago  1747459  5  5.5-4.5  5.5-4.5  1-0 Darwin vs Chelmsford  1746553  5  2-8  2-8  0-1  Bordeaux vs Philadelphia  1746733  8  4.5-11.5  4.5-11.5  0-1                  Round 6 (announcement: 2025-03-19, start: 2025-04-02) Nottingham vs Philadelphia  1760097  10  15-5  15-5  1-0  Chelmsford vs Bordeaux  1760519  10  9.5-10.5  9.5-10.5  0-1 Santiago vs Darwin  1760021  --      1-0 Hertford vs Manila  1760473  7  6.5-7.5  6.5-7.5  0-1 New Delhi vs Bradford  1763909  --      1-0                 Round 7 (announcement: 2025-04-23, start: 2025-05-07) Bradford vs Nottingham  1777456  6  9.5-2.5  9.5-2.5  1-0 Manila vs New Delhi  1778232  9  13-5  13-5  1-0 Darwin vs Hertford  1776572        0-1 Bordeaux vs Santiago  1779346  9  7-11  7-11  0-1 Philadelphia vs Chelmsford  1776634  8  11-5  11-5  1-0                 Round 8 (announcement: 2025-05-21, start: 2025-06-04) Nottingham vs Chelmsford  1791332  9  8.5-9.5  10-5-7.5  1-0 Santiago vs Philadelphia  1791262  5  0-10  0-10  0-1 Hertford vs Bordeaux  1791346  7  8-6  8-6  1-0 New Delhi vs Darwin          0-0 Bradford vs Manila  1791350  6  8-4  8-4  1-0                 Round 9 (announcement: 2025-06-18, start: 2025-07-02) Manila vs Nottingham  1803590  --      0-1 Darwin vs Bradford  1805300  5    5-4  1-0 Bordeaux vs New Delhi  1807640  --      1-0 Philadelphia vs Hertford  1803558  14  10.5-17.5  10.5-17.5  0-1 Chelmsford vs Santiago  1803676  10  12.5-7.5  12.5-7.5  1-0      

Below you find the divisions for WCL 2025 with team contacts. Please provide a second team contact if it is still missing. Team contacts in parentheses are closed, inactive or don't accept messages. Please replace. If team contacts change, report the new contacts in the comment section. Promotion and degradation has been determined by the live standings on chessteams.info of 2 oktober 2024. Due to withdrawals, some wild cards have become available, which have been filled with reduced degradation and additional promotion. Please check whether your teams has been allocated to the division you expected (or which is acceptable for you). Some swaps might still be possible. Anyone who is interested in helping with the organisation of the Cities Leagues is invited to contact @RainPiper or @serhiivolokh. . Division 1 Team admin 1 admin 2 Shostka (UKR) @OlegShevchenko2020 @KatyKat11 Buenos Aires (ARG) @Guinie @Delirantetotal  Kyiv (UKR) @adriano81 @V1738 Baku (AZE) @Muslim_Forever @seyranhacibeyli The Hague (NLD) @RainPiper @Smirknov Prishtina (KOS) @armendmulakaj1984 @kali_i_bekuar Prague (CZE) @dale00007 @LancelotDuLac Odessa (UKR) @Karllito @HappyMan_UA Barcelona (ESP) @Mortadeloking @robl3 Beograd (SRB) @grujicdragan @nemirena       Division 2A Team admin 1 admin 2 Zagreb (CRO) @SegrtHlapic @homodiurnus Kherson (UKR) @kostyazaharov @believepony Messini (GRE) @manitarius @chesswine27 Almaty (KAZ) @krypton00 @alchemist01 Yerevan (ARM) @gevorg1983 @teamhayastan Québec (CAN) @mlongpre2 @borisside Sydney (AUS) @kookaburrra @stoker68 Sheffield (GBR) @KittyB @superdrewe53 Metz (FRA) @Blastingchess @Menthe Brisbane (AUS) @igroki789 @kookaburrra       Division 2B Team admin 1 admin 2 Lviv (UKR) @karina55 @SergijTymchuk Niš (SRB) @Laki_69 @iksnicamod Athens (GRE) @Anastasakis @drotsios Minsk (BLR) @sergtaw @hervasij_vylivaha Kharkiv (UKR) @YanaB @Enhard Sofia (BGR) @panstoy @Valyo1954 Adelaide (AUS) @kookaburrra @mc-aarony Glasgow (GBR) @Rogerthecabinboy @Croftangry20 Edinburgh (GBR) @Penguin89C @CCCUKI Perth (AUS) @vetuspetram @kookaburrra       Division 3A Team admin 1 admin 2 Singapore (SGP) @hiyyo @boonthamchess Budapest (HUN) @atudor60 @carina_e Donetsk (UKR) @serhiivolokh @V1738 Toronto (CAN) @Penguincw   Lisbon (PRT) @jcoelho72 @LMCDuarte Munster (IRL) @CCCUKI @ImperfectAge Thessaloniki (GRE) @Anastasios @erotokritos Inverness (SCO) @martinhind3 @arendijus Castilla y León (ESP) @postari @maxi1968 Udine (ITA) @MauTrav @andrewud       Division 3B Team admin 1 admin 2 London (GBR) @markh01 @KingsWaterman Brno (CZE) @Vezekmin @JIDEMONI Norwich (GBR) @matt1979 @mrsdribble Maracena (ESP) @ganpel @Pertinhez76 Košice (SVK) @SlovakAustralia @yosipko Bucharest (ROM) @costinc19 @lvali40 Aberdeen (SCO) @RussTay73 @Toddy1997 Canberra (AUS) @kookaburrra @yscb1 Ulster (GBR/IRL) @kookaburrra @vivoj Berdychiv (UKR) @Berdgross @YriiKudryashov       Division 3C Team admin 1 admin 2 Ternopil (UKR) @Ukranian_boy @Zybex9 Melbourne (AUS) @Durny @19Andrew64 Torino (ITA) @Giampiero111 @DanieleAirola Lyon (FRA) @Felinferoce @ludovic69 Bratislava (SVK) @security1985 @enoshan Uttar Pradesh (IND) @shikharthechampionn @yash_1434 Korca (ALB) @image40 @thomaq1964 São Paulo (BRA) @Schincariol @Silver-grayknight Reggio Emilia (ITA) @pacio8 @Purplechess46 Toulouse (FRA) @deep-blou @captainmorue       Division 4A Team admin 1 admin 2 Rome (ITA) @racine6 @barocci Tehran (IRI) @Mobarez @Hani_caspian Changsha (CHN) @Chusuk @KingJiang Zaporizhzhia (UKR) @Larsorub @Ukranian_boy Plovdiv (BUL) @pistons @stoyanov Brasilia (BRA) @Victor_SEP @luizevandro Makeevka (UKR) @Zodchy-8686 @Nikita_Shevchenko Fortaleza (BRA) @dkrummenauer @CzarPc Edinet (MDA) @DrDavidstein @daaaaaavvid Rostock (GER) @Jabba-Ranks @Bravehart1811        Division 4B Team admin 1 admin 2 Santiago (CHI) @jcvila @BOTE1974 Hertford (GBR) @chambro1970 @boringlovechild New Delhi (IND) @Vidyutganesh @Lsubbu Bradford (GBR) @chriswray   Manila (PHI) @Fiela @RayDuqueIII Darwin (AUS) @matsunden @kookaburrra Bordeaux (FRA) @Rookover @ChezTreize Philadelphia (USA) @jcohen42 @WafflesASAP  Chelmsford (GBR) @CCCUKI @Captainstarkiller Nottingham (GBR) @CCCUKI @Cheeseman1998       Division 4C Team admin 1 admin 2 Jakarta (INA) @Niskala-Wastukancana @ssakti Khmelnitskiy (UKR) @serhiivolokh @ruslan_immunity Birmingham (GBR) @sezlez @CCCUKI Chisinau (MDA) @DrDavidstein @Ilaaaaan Farsley (GBR) @r00k_lift @anthonychess82 Dublin (IRL) @Chambro1970 @Wikicha Leeds (GBR) @pannalman @tricky_dicky Oxford (GBR) @BizzOX14 @CCCUKI Dhaka (BGD) @AfiyaJr @ligendario Tlmače (SVK) @KikoBBX @MikaSlayed       Division 4D Team admin 1 admin 2 Karagandy (KAZ) @vmlopach @bruno_asfalto Hobart (AUS) @kookaburrra @tpd Sumy (UKR) @Yanenko70 @vadym12 Córdoba (ARG) @pulpopaz @wallyup Connacht (IRL) @RIZLAPRINCE @CCCUKI Washington DC (USA) @do_not_touch  @doctorpluto Honolulu (USA) @uptophigh @scribbke Boulogne (FRA) @rclboris @bryanflr Bretagne (FRA) @kookaburrra @euf Khankendi (AZE) @seyranhacibeyli @muslim_forever       Division 4E Team admin 1 admin 2 Kish Island (IRI) @Mobarez @Hani_caspian Mexico City (MEX) @benjatorr @buazel Levice (SVK) @Peter_Geffert @aj_1224 Isle of Man (GBR) @dfhunter @CCCUKI Baltimore (USA) @The_Numenorean @-Blackburne- Milano (ITA) @dag_stinner  @supermatt69 Calabria (ITA) @FrancescoCicero92 @Marbo999 Cherkasy (UKR) @shumaaher @Yuriy_Leonidov  Perth (SCO) @MunroBagger @rjproton São José RP (BRA) @Arthur_Khachaturyan @Renan1984

Below you find the divisions for 960WCL 2024 with team contacts. Please provide a second team contact if it is still missing.   Division 1 Team admin 1 admin 2 Kyiv (UKR) @adriano81 @V1738 Kharkiv (UKR) @YanaB @Enhard Buenos Aires (ARG) @guinie @Sebastian-Pianaroli Barcelona (SPA) @MortadeloKing @robl3 Grad Niš (SRB) @Laki_69 @iksnicamod Budapest (HUN) @atudor60 @carina_e Beograd (SRB) @grujicdragan @nemirena Lviv (UKR) @karina55 @SergijTymchuk Sofia (BLG) @panstoy @Valyo1954 Almaty (KAZ) @alchemist01 &nbsp       Division 2 Team admin 1 admin 2 Prague (CZE) @Dale00007 @LancelotDuLac Minsk (BLR) @sergtaw @hervasij_vylivaha Brno (CZE) @Vezekmin @JIDEMONI Dhaka (BGD) @AfiyaJr @N8Sun Messini (GRE) @manitarius @chesswine27 Glasgow (SCO) @rogerthecabinboy @stuartfanderson Zagreb (CRO) @nopi @SegrtHlapic București (ROM) @costinc19 @lvali40 Edinburgh (SCO) @Penguin89C @Chambro1970 Singapore (SGP) @starrychess4ever @hiyyo       Division 3 Team admin 1 admin 2 Melbourne (AUS) @Durny @ray257 Sydney (AUS) @stoker68 @kookaburrra Metz (FRA) @Blastingchess @Menthe Sheffield (ENG) @KittyB @superdrewe53 Perth (AUS) @Dugite295 &nbsp Adelaide (AUS) @kookaburrra @mc-aarony Torino (ITA) @Giampiero111 @DanieleAirola Quebec (CAN) @mlongpre2 @borisside Toulouse (FRA) @deep-blou @captainmorue Fortaleza (BRA) @CzarPc @Fabricio3D2Y       Division 4 Team admin 1 admin 2 Kish Island (IRA) @Mobarez @Hani_caspian Bologna (ITA) @JFSebastianKnight @DirkFlasche Donetsk (UKR) @serhiivolokh @V1738 Karagandy (KAZ) @vmlopach @bruno_asfalto Uttar Pradesh (IND) @Shikharthechampionn @yash_1434 Ulster (IRL/GBR) @kookaburra @vivoj Prešov (SVK) @Markof @milos88 Aberdeen (SCO) @RussTay73 @Toddy1997 Yerevan (ARM) @gevorg1983 &nbsp       Division 5A Team admin 1 admin 2 Hertford (ENG) @Chambro1970 @BoringLovechild Berdychiv (UKR) @Berdgross @defenderalist Thessaloniki (GRE) @anastasios @erotokritos Hobart (AUS) @kookaburrra @tpd Manila (PHI) @Fiela @GregCachin Madrid (SPA) @ANROCALO1950 @LUFRAGACI Plovdiv (BLG) @pistons &nbsp Valparaiso (CHI) @BOTE1974 @Manrod78       Division 5B Team admin 1 admin 2 Sumy (UKR) @Yanenko70 @Vadym12 Farsley (ENG) @davet65 @anthonychess82 Bretagne (FRA) @kookaburrra @euf Isle of Man (GBR) @dfhunter @matt1979 Mexico (MEX) @benjatorr @buazel Tehran (IRA) @Mobarez @Leila-Love Santiago (CHI) @jcvila @BOTE1974 Puerto Montt (CHI) @BOTE1974 @cabezadecubo Perth (SCO) @MunroBagger @cccuki Milano (ITA) @Dag_Stinner @Warnefrit      

Registration is open for the 2025 season of the 960 World Cities League. In order to reduce problems with unresponsive teams to a minimum, we ask all teams for confirmation of their participation and for an update of their team representatives. Please confirm your participation in the 960 WCL 2025 by posting two team representatives in the thread below (and a link to the team homepage if your team is new to the 960 WCL). -- Observe: Registration will remain open until March, 31st. We will try to accommodate teams that register after this date, but this cannot be warranted. Team representatives need to be accessible for communication. In the settings, "Send and Receive Messages" must be set to "All members". The allocation of teams to divisions below is preliminary (based on the live standings of February, 23rd). The final composition of the divisions will be determined by the ranking and confirmation status at the cut-off on March, 31st. Minimum team sizes are 15 (Div. 1), 12 (Div. 2), 9 (Div. 3), 7 (Div. 4), 5 (Div. 5). If you doubt whether your team can reach this size, withdrawal to a lower division might be an option. The first round of the 960 WCL 2025 will be announced on April, 6th and start on April, 20th. Rules will follow WCL rules. See Appendix E for specific 960 WCL rules. Division 1 (10 teams, 15+ players) Team status admin 1 admin 2 Kyiv (UKR) confirmed @adriano81 @V1738 Kharkiv (UKR) confirmed @YanaB @Enhard Buenos Aires (ARG) confirmed @guinie @mardesebas Barcelona (SPA) confirmed @MortadeloKing @robl3 Grad Niš (SRB) confirmed @Laki_69 @iksnicamod Budapest (HUN) confirmed @atudor60 @carina_e Beograd (SRB) confirmed @grujicdragan @nemirena Lviv (UKR) confirmed @karina55 @SergijTymchuk Sofia (BLG) confirmed @panstoy @Valyo1954 Almaty (KAZ) confirmed @Alchemist01         Division 2 (10 teams, 12+ players) Prague (CZE) confirmed @Dale00007 @LancelotDuLac Minsk (BLR) confirmed @sergtaw @hervasij_vylivaha Brno (CZE) confirmed @Vezekmin @JIDEMONI Messini (GRE) confirmed @manitarius @chesswine27 Dhaka (BGD) confirmed @AfiyaJr @N8Sun Glasgow (SCO) confirmed @rogerthecabinboy @stuartfanderson Zagreb (CRO) confirmed @nopi @segrthlapic București (ROM) confirmed @costinc19 @lvali40 Edinburgh (SCO) confirmed @Penguin89C @Chambro1970 Metz (FRA) confirmed @Blastingchess @Menthe         Division 3 (10 teams, 9+ players) Sydney (AUS) confirmed @stoker68 @kookaburrra Melbourne (AUS) confirmed @Durny @ray257 Singapore (SGP) confirmed @starrychess4ever @hiyyo Sheffield (ENG) confirmed @KittyB @superdrewe53 Brisbane (AUS) withdrawn Perth (AUS) confirmed @Dugite295 Adelaide (AUS) confirmed @kookaburrra @mc-aarony Quebec (CAN) confirmed @mlongpre2 @borisside Perth (SCO) confirmed @munrobagger @cccuki Fortaleza (BRA) confirmed @CzarPc @Fabricio3D2Y         Division 4 (10 teams, 7+ players) Torino (ITA) confirmed @Giampiero111 @DanieleAirola Kish Island (IRA) confirmed @Mobarez @Hani_caspian Bologna (ITA) confirmed @JFSebastianKnight @DirkFlasche Donetsk (UKR) confirmed @serhiivolokh @V1738 Karagandy (KAZ) confirmed @vmlopach @bruno_asfalto Uttar Pradesh (IND) confirmed @Shikharthechampionn @yash_1434 Ulster (IRL/GBR) confirmed @kookaburra @vivoj Sumy (UKR) confirmed(div5) @Yanenko70 @vadym12 Prešov (SVK) confirmed @Markof @milos88 Aberdeen (SCO) confirmed @RussTay73 @Toddy1997         Division 5 (all remaining teams, several parallel groups, 5+ players) Hertford (ENG) confirmed @chambro1970 @boringlovechild Isle of Man (GBR) confirmed @dfhunter @matt1979 Hobart (AUS) confirmed @kookaburrra @tpd Canberra (AUS) withdrawn Berdychiv (UKR) confirmed @Berdgross @defenderalist Mexico (MEX) confirmed @benjatorr @buazel Madrid (SPA) confirmed @ANROCALO1950 @LUFRAGACI Tehran (IRA) confirmed @Mobarez @Leila-Love Puerto Montt (CHI) confirmed @BOTE1974 @cabezadecubo Plovdiv (BLG) confirmed @pistons Manila (PHI) confirmed @Fiela @GregCachin Milano (ITA) confirmed @Dag_Stinner @Warnefrit Santiago (CHI) confirmed @BOTE1974 @jcvila Bretagne (FRA) confirmed @kookaburrra @euf Thessaloniki (GRE) confirmed @anastasios @erotokritos Toulouse (FRA) confirmed @deep-blou @captainmorue Farsley (ENG) confirmed @davet65 @anthonychess82 Valparaiso (CHI) confirmed @BOTE1974 @Manrod78 Yerevan (ARM) confirmed @gevorg1983        

Rules:  https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/wcl-2024-rules Team contacts:  https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/chess960-wcl-2024-team-contacts  All match results are preliminary and indicative (occasionally updated by hand). Consult https://chessteams.info/ for live results and rankings. Minimum players number is 8. Two teams are promoted to Division 2. Three teams are relegated to Division 4. Results may change due to ex-post corrections (see rules) until the cut-off dates on March, 31st (for relegation) and June, 30th (for the final ranking). Cross Table    She Sin Ade Tor Met Bol Edi Per KIs Bri total place Sheffield (ENG)   0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 ½ 6½ 3-4 Singapore (SGP) 1   1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 7 2 Adelaide (AUS) 0 0   1 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 7 Torino (ITA) 0 0 0   0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 8-9 Metz (FRA) 0 1 1 1   1 ½ 1 1 0 6½ 3-4 Bologna (ITA) 0 0 0 0 0   0 0 0 0 0 10 Edinburgh (SCO) 1 1 1 1 ½ 1   ½ 1 1 8 1 Perth (AUS) 0 0 1 1 0 1 ½   1 1 5½ 5-6 Kish Island (IRA)  0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0   0 ½ 8-9 Brisbane (AUS) ½ 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1   5½ 5-6   Pairings Team A   Team B match ID players rawresult correctedresult matchpoints Round 1 (announcement: 2024-04-07, start: 2024-04-21) Singapore vs Sheffield 1614819 9 11-7   1-0 Adelaide vs Brisbane 1612737 12 11½-12½   0-1 Torino vs Kish Island 1612903 8 8-8   ½-½ Metz vs Perth 1612841 9 11½-6½   1-0 Bologna vs Edinburgh  1612923 10 4-16   0-1                 Round 2 (announcement: 2024-05-05, start: 2024-05-19) Singapore vs Adelaide 1626071 14 20½-7½   1-0 Sheffield vs Edinburgh 1626253 13 12-14   0-1 Perth vs Bologna 1628345       1-0 Kish Island vs Metz 1626401 8 3½-12½   0-1 Brisbane vs Torino 1626081 8 14-2   1-0                 Round 3 (announcement: 2024-06-09, start: 2024-06-23) Bologna vs Kish Island 1639501       0-0 Edinburgh vs Perth 1639357 8 8-8   ½-½ Adelaide vs Sheffield 1639363 11 9-13   0-1 Torino vs Singapore 1641677 8 2-14   0-1 Metz vs Brisbane 1639365       0-1                 Round 4 (announcement: 2024-07-07, start: 2024-07-21) Brisbane vs Bologna 1650573       1-0 Singapore vs Metz 1650725 9 6-12   0-1 Adelaide vs Torino 1650537       1-0 Sheffield vs Perth 1650865 9 15-3   1-0 Kish Island vs Edinburgh 1650457       0-1                 Round 5 (announcement: 2024-07-28, start: 2024-08-11) Metz vs Adelaide 1658243       1-0 Bologna vs Singapore 1659209       0-1 Edinburgh vs Brisbane 1658483 9 9½-8½   1-0 Perth vs Kish Island 1658157       1-0 Torino vs Sheffield 1658893 8 4½-11½   0-1                 Round 6 (announcement: 2024-08-18, start: 2024-09-01) Sheffield vs Kish Island 1666919       1-0 Brisbane vs Perth 1666591 16 14-18   0-1 Singapore vs Edinburgh 1666765 9 8-10   0-1 Adelaide vs Bologna 1666603       1-0 Torino vs Metz 1667743 9 3-15   0-1                 Round 7 (announcement: 2024-09-08, start: 2024-09-22) Metz vs Sheffield 1674909       0-1 Bologna vs Torino 1677203       0-0 Edinburgh vs Adelaide 1674899 8 10-6   1-0 Perth vs Singapore 1675191 11 6-16   0-1 Kish Island vs Brisbane 1674739       0-1                 Round 8 (announcement: 2024-09-29, start: 2024-10-13) Metz vs Bologna 1685695       1-0 Sheffield vs Brisbane 1684025 12 12-12   ½-½ Singapore vs Kish Island 1684317       1-0 Adelaide vs Perth 1684063 11 7-15   0-1 Torino vs Edinburgh 1684993       0-1                 Round 9 (announcement: 2024-11-10, start: 2024-11-24) Kish Island vs Adelaide 1702459       0-1 Brisbane vs Singapore 1702217 12 9½-14½   0-1 Bologna vs Sheffield 1702515       0-1 Edinburgh vs Metz 1702829 9 9-9   ½-½ Perth vs Torino 1702861 9 12-6   1-0      

Rules:  https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/wcl-2024-rules Team contacts:  https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/chess960-wcl-2024-team-contacts  All match results are preliminary and indicative (occasionally updated by hand). Consult https://chessteams.info/ for live results and rankings. Minimum players number is 11. Two teams are promoted to Division 1. Two teams are relegated to Division 3. Results may change due to ex-post corrections (see rules) until the cut-off dates on March, 31st (for relegation) and June, 30th (for the final ranking). Cross Table    Brn Mel Sof Mes Buc Syd Zag Alm Dha Gla total place Brno (CZE)   1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 6 3 Melbourne (AUS) 0   0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 9-10 Sofia (BLG) 1 1   1 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 8 1 Messini (GRE) 1 1 0   1 1 0 0 0 1 5 5 București (ROM) 0 1 0 0   0 0 0 1 0 2 8 Sydney (AUS) 0 0 0 0 1   0 0 0 1 2 9-10 Zagreb (CRO) 0 0 0 1 1 1   0 1 0 4 6-7 Almaty (KAZ) 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1   1 0 6½ 2 Dhaka (BGD)  1 1 ½ 1 0 1 0 0   1 5½ 4 Glasgow (SCO) 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0   4 6-7   Pairings Team A   Team B match ID players rawresult correctedresult matchpoints Round 1 (announcement: 2024-04-07, start: 2024-04-21) Melbourne vs Brno 1613651 11 6-16 5-17 0-1 Sofia vs Glasgow 1612647 14 19½-8½ 17½-10½ 1-0 Messini vs Dhaka 1612865 12 10-14   0-1 București vs Almaty 1612669 16 9-23   0-1 Sydney vs Zagreb 1612671 16 8-24 9-23 0-1                 Round 2 (announcement: 2024-05-05, start: 2024-05-19) Melbourne vs Sofia 1627573 22 6-38   0-1 Brno vs Zagreb 1627989 12 16-8   1-0 Almaty vs Sydney 1626083 18 23½-12½   1-0 Dhaka vs București 1626025 11 10½-11½   0-1 Glasgow vs Messini 1626505 13 9-17   0-1                 Round 3 (announcement: 2024-06-09, start: 2024-06-23) Sydney vs Dhaka 1639323 19 9½-28½   0-1 Zagreb vs Almaty 1643177 13 10½-15½   0-1 Sofia vs Brno 1639383 14 17-11 15-13 1-0 Messini vs Melbourne 1640789 13 15½-10½   1-0 București vs Glasgow 1639361 17 15½-18½   0-1                 Round 4 (announcement: 2024-07-07, start: 2024-07-21) Glasgow vs Sydney 1650501 16 15-17   0-1 Melbourne vs București 1650773 15 12-18   0-1 Sofia vs Messini 1651807 12 16-8 15-9 1-0 Brno vs Almaty 1651771 14 12½-15½ 14½-13½ 1-0 Dhaka vs Zagreb 1651605 11 7-15   0-1                 Round 5 (announcement: 2024-07-28, start: 2024-08-11) București vs Sofia 1658369 16 8-24 9½-22½ 0-1 Sydney vs Melbourne  1658573 16 14-18 0-1 Zagreb vs Glasgow 1658329 14 7-21   0-1 Almaty vs Dhaka 1660617 12 14½-9½   1-0 Messini vs Brno 1658733 15 17½-12½   1-0                 Round 6 (announcement: 2024-08-18, start: 2024-09-01) Brno vs Dhaka 1667121 11 9½-12½   0-1 Glasgow vs Almaty 1666853 13 15½-10½ 13½-12½ 1-0 Melbourne vs Zagreb 1666977     1-0 Sofia vs Sydney 1666615 20 28½-11½   1-0 Messini vs București 1667043 15 20½-9½   1-0                 Round 7 (announcement: 2024-09-08, start: 2024-09-22) București vs Brno 1674979 13 12½-13½   0-1 Sydney vs Messini 1674769 13 10-16   0-1 Zagreb vs Sofia 1676787 11 8½-13½   0-1 Almaty vs Melbourne 1677491 14 20½-7½   1-0 Dhaka vs Glasgow 1675103 13 13½-12½   1-0                 Round 8 (announcement: 2024-09-29, start: 2024-10-13) București vs Sydney 1684019 16 15-17   0-1 Brno vs Glasgow 1684617 11 13-9   1-0 Melbourne vs Dhaka 1684269 13 3-23   0-1 Sofia vs Almaty 1686971 11 11-11   ½-½ Messini vs Zagreb 1686843 12 11½-12½   0-1                 Round 9 (announcement: 2024-11-10, start: 2024-11-24) Dhaka vs Sofia 1703617 15 15-15   ½-½  Glasgow vs Melbourne 1702827 17 21-13   1-0 Sydney vs Brno 1702339 16 8-24   0-1 Zagreb vs București 1702263 12 19½-4½   1-0 Almaty vs Messini 1705263       1-0      

Rules:  https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/wcl-2024-rules Team contacts:  https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/chess960-wcl-2024-team-contacts  All match results are preliminary and indicative (occasionally updated by hand). Consult https://chessteams.info/ for live results and rankings. Minimum players number is 15. Two teams are relegated to Division 2. Results may change due to ex-post corrections (see rules) until the cut-off dates on March, 31st (for relegation) and June, 30th (for the final ranking). Cross Table    BAi Kha Lvi Beo Min Bud Bar Niš Kyi Pra total place Buenos Aires (ARG)   ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 7½ 2-3 Kharkiv (UKR) ½   1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 7½ 2-3 Lviv (UKR) 0 0   0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 7-8 Beograd (SRB) 0 0 1   0 0 0 0 0 1 2 7-8 Minsk (BLR) 0 0 0 0   0 0 0 0 1 1 9-10 Budapest (HUN) 0 0 0 1 1   1 0 0 0 3 6 Barcelona (SPA) 0 0 1 1 1 0   1 0 1 5 4-5 Grad Niš (SRB) 0 0 1 1 1 1 0   0 1 5 4-5 Kyiv (UKR)  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1   1 9 1 Prague (CZE) 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0   1 9-10   Pairings Team A   Team B match ID players rawresult correctedresult matchpoints Round 1 (announcement: 2024-04-07, start: 2024-04-21) Kharkiv vs Buenos Aires 1612767 23 24½-21½ 23-23 ½-½ Lviv vs Prague 1612885 23 30½-15½   1-0 Beograd vs Kyiv 1618211 15 14½-15½   0-1 Minsk vs Grad Niš 1612581       0-1 Budapest vs Barcelona  1612601       1-0                 Round 2 (announcement: 2024-05-05, start: 2024-05-19) Kharkiv vs Lviv 1626111 17 27½-6½ 25½-8½ 1-0 Buenos Aires vs Barcelona 1626113 26 25-27 27-25 1-0 Grad Niš vs Budapest 1626293 19 20½-17½   1-0 Kyiv vs Minsk 1627769       1-0 Prague vs Beograd 1626203 22 20-24   0-1                 Round 3 (announcement: 2024-06-09, start: 2024-06-23) Budapest vs Kyiv 1641983 17 9½-24½   0-1 Barcelona vs Grad Niš 1639395 22 30-14   1-0 Lviv vs Buenos Aires 1640081 20 11-29 13-27 0-1 Beograd vs Kharkiv 1639421 22 18-26 20½-23½ 0-1 Minsk vs Prague 1639839 19 23-15   1-0                 Round 4 (announcement: 2024-07-07, start: 2024-07-21) Prague vs Budapest 1650441 17 20½-13½   1-0 Kharkiv vs Minsk 1651887       1-0 Lviv vs Beograd 1652453 17 12-22   0-1 Buenos Aires vs Grad Niš 1650629 20 29-11   1-0 Kyiv vs Barcelona 1651289 29 31-27   1-0                 Round 5 (announcement: 2024-07-28, start: 2024-08-11) Minsk vs Lviv 1658871       0-0 Budapest vs Kharkiv 1658567 17 10-24   0-1 Barcelona vs Prague 1658625 27 35-19   1-0 Grad Niš vs Kyiv 1659629 17 7½-26½   0-1 Beograd vs Buenos Aires 1658307 16 14½-17½   0-1                 Round 6 (announcement: 2024-08-18, start: 2024-09-01) Buenos Aires vs Kyiv 1667409 38 31-45 33-43 0-1 Prague vs Grad Niš 1666865 20 13½-26½   0-1 Kharkiv vs Barcelona 1666793 26 33-19 31-21 1-0 Lviv vs Budapest 1666825 15 15½-14½   1-0 Beograd vs Minsk 1666811       0-0                 Round 7 (announcement: 2024-09-08, start: 2024-09-22) Minsk vs Buenos Aires 1674863       0-1 Budapest vs Beograd 1674811 17 17½-16½   1-0 Barcelona vs Lviv 1676167       1-0 Grad Niš vs Kharkiv 1674951 17 12-22   0-1 Kyiv vs Prague 1676519 27 38½-15½   1-0                 Round 8 (announcement: 2024-09-29, start: 2024-10-13) Minsk vs Budapest 1684009       0-1 Buenos Aires vs Prague 1685553 25 35½-14½   1-0 Kharkiv vs Kyiv 1684383 31 29-33 30-32 0-1 Lviv vs Grad Niš 1685621       0-1 Beograd vs Barcelona 1685395       0-1                 Round 9 (announcement: 2024-11-10, start: 2024-11-24) Kyiv vs Lviv 1702267 17 21-13   1-0 Prague vs Kharkiv 1702849 22 13-31   0-1 Budapest vs Buenos Aires 1702329 18 7½-28½   0-1 Barcelona vs Minsk 1703953       1-0 Grad Niš vs Beograd 1702407       1-0      

Rules: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/wcl-2024-rules Team contacts: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/wcl-2024-team-contacts All match results are preliminary and indicative (occasionally updated by hand). Consult https://chessteams.info/ for live results and rankings. Two teams are relegated to Division 2. Results may change due to ex-post corrections (see rules) until the cut-off dates on September, 30th (for relegation) and December, 31st (for the final ranking). @ Cross Table    BAi Kyi Ode Pri Pra Lvi Zag Hag Sho Bak total Buenos Aires (ARG)   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1  8 Kyiv (UKR) 0   1 1 ½ 1 1 0 0 1 5½ Odessa (UKR) 0 0   0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 Prishtina (KOS) 0 0 1   1 1 0 0 0 1 4 Prague (CZE) 0 ½ 1 0   1 1 0 0 0 3½ Lviv (UKR) 0 0 0 0 0   0 1 0 1 2 Zagreb (CRO) 0 0 0 1 0 1   0 0 1 3 The Hague (NLD) 0 1 1 1 1 0 1   0 1 6 Shostka (UKR)  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1   1 9 Baku (AZE) 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0   2 @ Pairings Team A   Team B match ID players raw result corrected result match points Round 1 (announcement: 2023-10-18, start: 2023-11-01) Buenos Aires vs Baku 1541039 39 48-30 50-28 1-0 Kyiv vs Shostka 1543793 -- -- -- 0-1 Odessa vs The Hague 1541071 40 22½-57½ 22-58 0-1 Prishtina vs Zagreb 1541673 38 32½-41½ 33½-42½ 0-1 Prague vs Lviv 1541081 34 39½-28½ 36½-31½ 1-0                 Round 2 (announcement: 2023-11-22, start: 2023-12-06) Baku vs Lviv 1552319 -- -- -- 0-1 Zagreb vs Prague 1552351 23 20-26 21-25 0-1 The Hague vs Prishtina 1551225 32 33½-30½ 33½-30½ 1-0 Shostka vs Odessa 1551273 23 32½-13½ 32½-13½ 1-0 Buenos Aires vs Kyiv 1553311 24 36½-11½ 36½-11½ 1-0                 Round 3 (announcement: 2023-12-20, start: 2024-01-03) Kyiv vs Baku 1564101 -- -- -- 1-0 Odessa vs Buenos Aires 1562657 22 11-33 11-33 0-1 Prishtina vs Shostka 1563321 21 13-29 13-29 0-1 Prague vs The Hague 1562573 45 23½-66½ 23½-66½ 0-1 Lviv vs Zagreb 1563643 22 15½-28½ 15½-28½ 0-1                 Round 4 (announcement: 2024-01-24, start: 2024-02-07) Baku vs Zagreb 1580025 31 31-31 28½-33½ 0-1 The Hague vs Lviv 1578239 25 23½-26½ 23½-26½ 0-1 Shostka vs Prague 1578111 21 31-11 29-13 1-0 Buenos Aires vs Prishtina 1578065 38 52-24 52-24 1-0 Kyiv vs Odessa 1579231 30 32-28 31-29 1-0                 Round 5 (announcement: 2024-02-21, start: 2024-03-06) Odessa vs Baku 1593223 32 27½-36½ 31½-32½ 0-1 Prishtina vs Kyiv 1592589 45 40½-49½ 40½-49½ 0-1 Prague vs Buenos Aires 1590729 39 22½-55½ 22½-55½ 0-1 Lviv vs Shostka 1592683 23 18-28 20-26 0-1 Zagreb vs The Hague 1590633 26 9½-42½ 9½-42½ 0-1                 Round 6 (announcement: 2024-03-20, start: 2024-04-03) Baku vs The Hague 1603055 29 30½-27½ 28½-29½ 0-1 Shostka vs Zagreb 1603133 -- -- -- 1-0 Buenos Aires vs Lviv 1603123 22 34½-9½ 34½-9½ 1-0 Kyiv vs Prague 1603609 26 26-26 26-26 ½-½ Odessa vs Prishtina 1605365 27 25-29 25-29 0-1                 Round 7 (announcement: 2024-04-17, start: 2024-05-01) Prishtina vs Baku 1619861 33 33½-31½ 35-30 1-0 Prague vs Odessa 1620039 26 26½-25½ 27½-24½ 1-0 Lviv vs Kyiv 1620301 22 19-25 19-25 0-1 Zagreb vs Buenos Aires 1618387 27 12-42 12-42 0-1 The Hague vs Shostka 1617675 25 17½-31½ 18-32 0-1                 Round 8 (announcement: 2024-05-22, start: 2024-06-05) Baku vs Shostka 1633827 20 15-24 14½-24½ 0-1 Buenos Aires vs The Hague 1632941 48 58½-37½ 58½-37½ 1-0 Kyiv vs Zagreb 1633185 -- -- -- 1-0 Odessa vs Lviv 1632829 21 22-29 22-29 1-0 Prishtina vs Prague 1634109 37 51½-22½ 51½-22½ 1-0                 Round 9 (announcement: 2024-06-19, start: 2024-07-03) Prague vs Baku 1646263 29 20½-35½ 21-35 0-1 Lviv vs Prishtina 1643371 21 19-22 19-22 0-1 Zagreb vs Odessa 1644709 -- -- -- 0-1 The Hague vs Kyiv 1643813 -- -- -- 1-0 Shostka vs Buenos Aires 1643421 29 29½-26½ 29½-26½ 1-0      

Registration is open for the 2025 season of the World Cities League. In order to reduce problems with unresponsive teams to a minimum, we ask all teams for confirmation of their participation and for an update of their team representatives. Please confirm your participation in the WCL 2025 by posting two team representatives in the thread below (and a link to the team homepage if your team is new to the WCL). -- Observe: Registration will remain open until September 30th. We will try to accommodate teams that register after this date, but this cannot be warranted. Team representatives need to be accessible for communication. In the settings, "Send and Receive Messages" must be set to "All members". The allocation of teams to divisions below is preliminary (based on the live standings of September 1st). De definite composition of divisions will be determined on the announced cut-off date (September, 30th). Minimum team sizes are 20 (Div. 1), 15 (Div. 2), 10 (Div. 3), 5 (Div 4). If you doubt whether your team can reach this size, withdrawal to a lower division might be an option. The first round of the WCL 2025 will be announced on October, 23th and start on November, 6th. Division 1 (10 teams) Team status admin 1 admin 2 Shostka (UKR) confirmed @OlegShevchenko2020 @KatyKat11 Buenos Aires (ARG) confirmed @Guinie @Mardesebas Kyiv (UKR) confirmed @adriano81 @V1738 Baku (AZE) confirmed @Muslim_Forever @seyranhacibeyli The Hague (NLD) confirmed @RainPiper @Smirknov Prishtina (KOS) confirmed @armendmulakaj1984 @kali_i_bekuar Prague (CZE) confirmed @dale00007 @LancelotDuLac Zagreb (CRO) confirmed @SegrtHlapic @homodiurnus Barcelona (ESP) (2) confirmed @Mortadeloking @robl3 Kherson (UKR) (2) confimed (2) @kostyazaharov @believepony         Division 2 (20 teams, 2 parallel groups) Team status admin 1 admin 2 Odessa (UKR) (1) confirmed @Karllito @HappyMan_UA Lviv (UKR) (1) confirmed @karina55 @SergijTymchuk Niš (SRB) confirmed @Laki_69 @iksnicamod Messini (GRE) confirmed @manitarius @chesswine27 Kharkiv (UKR) confirmed @YanaB @Enhard Sofia (BGR) confirmed @panstoy @Valyo1954 Yerevan (ARM) confirmed @gevorg1983 @teamhayastan Melbourne (AUS) confirmed @Durny @19Andrew64 Beograd (SRB) confirmed @grujicdragan @nemirena Athens (GRE) confirmed @Anastasakis @drotsios Almaty (KAZ) confirmed @krypton00 @alchemist01  Quebec (CAN) confirmed @mlongpre2 @borisside Minsk (BLR) confirmed @sergtaw @hervasij_vylivaha Adelaide (AUS) confirmed @kookaburrra @mc-aarony Glasgow (GBR) (3) confirmed @Rogerthecabinboy @Croftangry20 Sheffield (GBR) (3) confirmed @KittyB @superdrewe53 Metz (FRA) (3) confirmed @Blastingchess @Menthe Edinburgh (GBR) (3) confirmed @Penguin89C @CCCUKI Donetsk (UKR) (3) confirmed (3) @serhiivolokh @V1738 Brisbane (AUS) (3) confirmed @igroki789 @kookaburrra         Division 3 (30 teams, 3 parallel groups) Team status admin 1 admin 2 Sydney (AUS) (2) confirmed @kookaburrra @stoker68 Brno (CZE) (2) confirmed @Vezekmin @JIDEMONI Budapest (HUN) (2) confirmed @atudor60 @carina_e Singapore (SGP) (2) confirmed @hiyyo @boonthamchess Ternopil (UKR) (2) confirmed @Ukranian_boy @Zybex9 London (GBR) (2) confirmed @markh01 @KingsWaterman Perth (AUS) confirmed @vetuspetram @kookaburrra Toronto (CAN) pending @Penguincw   Košice (SVK) confirmed @SlovakAustralia @yosipko Uttar Pradesh (IND) confirmed @shikharthechampionn @yash_1434 Munster (IRL) confirmed @CCCUKI @ImperfectAge Norwich (GBR) confirmed @matt1979 @mrsdribble Lyon (FRA) confirmed @Felinferoce @ludovic69 Lisbon (PRT) confirmed @jcoelho72 @LMCDuarte Bucharest (ROM) confirmed @costinc19 @lvali40 Bratislava (SVK) confirmed @security1985 @enoshan Bologna (ITA) alerted (3)     Maracena (ESP) confirmed @ganpel @Pertinhez76 Torino (ITA) confirmed @Giampiero111 @LasmeSte Dnipro (UKR) alerted (3)     Thessaloniki (GRE) confirmed @Anastasios @erotokritos Korca (ALB) (4) confirmed @image40 @thomaq1964 Inverness (SCO) (4) confirmed @martinhind3 @arendijus Canberra (AUS) (4) confirmed @kookaburrra @yscb1 Sumy (UKR) (4) confirmed (4) @Yanenko70 @vadym12 Washington DC (USA) (4) confirmed (4) @do_not_touch @ghabil Ulster (GBR/IRL) (4) confirmed @kookaburrra @vivoj Reggio Emilia (ITA) (4) confirmed @pacio8 @Purplechess46 Castilla y León (ESP) (4) confirmed @ganpel @maxi1968 Cherkasy (UKR) (4) confirmed @shumaaher @Yuriy_Leonidov  Berdychiv (UKR) (4) confirmed @Berdgross @YriiKudryashov         Division 4 (all remaining teams, several parallel groups) Team status admin 1 admin 2 Rome (ITA) (3) confirmed @racine6 @barocci Salerno (ITA) (3) withdrawn     Santiago (CHI) (3) confirmed @jcvila @BOTE1974 Aberdeen (SCO) (3) confirmed @RussTay73 @Toddy1997 Hong Kong (HKG) (3) alerted (3)     Jakarta (INA) (3) confirmed @Niskala-Wastukancana @ssakti Karagandy (KAZ) (3) confirmed @vmlopach @bruno_asfalto Kish Island (IRI) (3) confirmed @Mobarez @Hani_caspian Tehran (IRI) (3) confirmed @Mobarez @Hani_caspian Toulouse (FRA) confirmed @deep-blou @captainmorue Hertford (GBR) confirmed @chambro1970 @boringlovechild Khmelnitskiy (UKR) confirmed @serhiivolokh @ruslan_immunity Hobart (AUS) confirmed @kookaburrra @tpd Mexico City (MEX) confirmed @benjatorr @buazel New Delhi (IND) confirmed @Vidyutganesh @Lsubbu Mykolayiv (UKR) alerted (3)     Birmingham (GBR) confirmed @sezlez @CCCUKI São Paulo (BRA) confirmed @Schincariol @Jaymerosas Changsha (CHN) confirmed @Chusuk @KingJiang Levice (SVK) confirmed @Peter_Geffert @aj_1224 Isle of Man (GBR) confirmed @dfhunter @CCCUKI Córdoba (ARG) confirmed @pulpopaz @wallyup  Chisinau (MDA) confirmed @DrDavidstein @Ilaaaaan Venezia (ITA) alerted (3)     Slovyansk (UKR) withdrawn     Bradford (GBR) pending @chriswray   Zaporizhzhia (UKR) confirmed @Larsorub @Ukranian_boy Farsley (GBR) confirmed @anthonychess82 @davet65 Connacht (IRL) confirmed @RIZLAPRINCE @CCCUKI Baltimore (USA) confirmed @The_Numenorean @-Blackburne- Plovdiv (BUL) confirmed @pistons @stoyanov Manila (PHI) confirmed @Fiela @RayDuqueIII Udine (ITA) confirmed @MauTrav @andrewud Milano (ITA) confirmed @dag_stinner  @supermatt69 Dublin (IRL) confirmed @Chambro1970 @Wikicha Brasilia (BRA) confirmed @Victor_SEP @luizevandro Darwin (AUS) confirmed @matsunden @kookaburrra Makeevka (UKR) confirmed @Zodchy-8686 @Nikita_Shevchenko Bordeaux (FRA) confirmed @Rookover @ChezTreize Leeds (GBR) confirmed (4) @pannalman @tricky_dicky Boulogne (FRA) confirmed @rclboris @bryanflr Honolulu (USA) confirmed @uptophigh @scribbke Calabria (ITA) confirmed @FrancescoCicero92 @Marbo999 Bristol (GBR) alerted (3)     Oxford (GBR) confirmed @BizzOX14 @CCCUKI Istanbul (TUR) withdrawn     Philadelphia (USA) confirmed @jcohen42 @WafflesASAP  Fortaleza (BRA) confirmed @dkrummenauer @CzarPc Perth (SCO) confirmed @MunroBagger @rjproton Bretagne (FRA) confirmed @kookaburrra @euf Dhaka (BGD) confirmed @AfiyaJr @ligendario Chelmsford (ENG) confirmed @CCCUKI @Captainstarkiller Edinet (MDA) confirmed @DrDavidstein @daaaaaavvid Erbil (IRQ) confirmed @AhmedMouhhamad @snakethugs Nottingham (GBR) confirmed @CCCUKI @Cheeseman1998 Tlmače (SVK) confirmed @KikoBBX @MikaSlayed Khankendi (AZE) confirmed @seyranhacibeyli @muslim_forever                                                                          

For the time being, this is simply a copy of the 2024 rules. Changes will be implemented later. World Cities League (WCL) Rules (updated October 2023, changes in italics) 1. General principles The World Cities League (WCL) is a team match tournament between city teams on chess.com. Its main purpose is to give chess.com members the opportunity to compete with players from other cities in a friendly sphere. The board of the WCL consists of the admins of the chess.com group “World Cities League HQ”. All details of the league organisation not specified in the rules are under the discretion of the board. The board will let its decision be guided by the principles of inclusion (make matches happen!) and fair play. One single team per city is invited to the World Cities League. If there are several teams for a city, the best ranked one on the team match leaderboard is invited first. Region teams can participate if there are no participating teams from cities within the respective region. When conflicts between overlapping regions and cities arise, the board decides on a case-to-case basis. All teams should mention a city in their name. The suggested text for the team profile description is: “This team represents [city or regional name] in the World Cities League.” 2. Set-up of the league The WCL is played out on an annual basis, with the first round starting in November and the last round starting in July. The year of the season is the year in which the last round starts. The WCL consists of four divisions, with Divisions 2 and lower containing several parallel groups. The normal division size is 10 teams. Groups in Division 4 may be smaller, depending on the total number of participating teams. Division 1 with 10 teams. Division 2 with 20 teams in two parallel groups. Division 3 with 30 teams in three parallel groups. Division 4 with all remaining teams in several parallel groups. All (groups in) divisions play a Round Robin tournament with one round per month. The normal starting date of each round is the first Wednesday of each month. After the finish of each season, teams are promoted and relegated: Two teams are relegated from Div. 1 to Div. 2. Two teams promote from Div. 2 to Div. 1 (one per group). Six teams are relegated from Div. 2 to Div. 3 (three per group). Six teams promote from Div. 3 to Div. 2 (two per group). Ten teams are relegated from Div. 3 to Div. 4 (three per group + the worst 7th ranked team). Ten teams promote from Div. 4 to Div. 3 (the top two from each group). The Chess960 World Cities League (Chess 960 WCL) and the European Cities League (ECL) follow the rules of the WCL closely. They have their own formats and schedules as described in Appendix F (Chess 960 WCL) and G (ECL). Schedules are set up to complement the WCL so that city matches are ongoing throughout the full year. 3. Announcement of rounds and match challenges Date and time of the start of a round are announced by a news item in the WCL HQ group two weeks in advance. Match challenges should be issued (by either of the teams) and accepted as fast as possible, but one week before the start of the round at the latest. See Appendix A for the necessary match parameters. If for unforeseen reasons the match challenge is accepted later than one week before the start of the round, the match may be replaced by a new match with a starting date that leaves one week for registering players. This is under the discretion of the WCL board and must be co-ordinated by message exchange. If a challenge is not accepted at the announced start of the round, the team that has received the challenge loses by forfeit (match result: 1 for the challenger, 0 for the challenged). If neither of the teams issues a challenge until the announced start of the round, both teams lose by forfeit (match points: 0 for both teams). If the match starts and ends regularly, match points are allocated 1-0 for the winner or ½-½ in case of a draw. The match result may be corrected for several reasons, see Sections 4-6. Teams are not allowed to lock their rosters before the scheduled start of the match. Unaccepted challenges may be cancelled after the announced start date of the round. 4. Minimum number of players In each division, there is a minimum number of players for each match for Division 1: 20 players (WCL), 15 players (ECL), 15 players (Chess 960 WCL) for Division 2: 15 players (WCL), 12 players (ECL), 12 players (Chess 960 WCL) for Division 3: 10 players (WCL), 9 players (ECL), 9 players (Chess 960 WCL) for Division 4: 5 players (WCL), 7 players (ECL), 7 players (Chess 960 WCL) for Division 5: --- (WCL), 5 players (ECL), 5 players (Chess 960 WCL) A team that does not reach the player minimum at the scheduled date, loses the match by forfeit. A forfeit loss can be overruled if both teams agree to start the match with the required number of players later. A delayed match start may not be later than the start of the following round. Forfeited matches may be cancelled after the announced start date of the round. 5. Foreign flag players The flag of the country the city is located in is considered the home flag of the team. All players with a different flag than the home flag are considered “foreign flag players”. This also applies to the international flag. The number of foreign flag players is limited to 1 in each cumulative (possibly incomplete) block of 4 players (i.e. max 1 player on boards 1-4, max 2 players on boards 1-8, max 3 players on boards 1-12 etc.) Foreign flag players in excess of these cumulative maxima are considered irregular players and their results are corrected according to Appendix D. Foreign flag players are checked from top to bottom: The players on the highest possible boards are considered regular, the rest irregular. A violation of the foreign flag player rule must be claimed in the forum of the respective league/division. It is not checked automatically. For a number of teams additional flags are recognised as home flags. These teams and the additional home flags are listed in Appendix C. If a team thinks that its characteristics warrant its addition to this list of exceptions, it can send a request to the WCL board. Granting this request is under discretion of the WCL board. 6. Multi-team players Each player is only allowed to play for one team during one season in one league. A player who has played at least twice for each of more than one team is considered an irregular multi-team player and his game results are corrected according to Appendix D. 7. Match result correction for closed accounts If players’ accounts are closed -- either by chess.com or by the players themselves -- these players are considered irregular players and their results are corrected according to Appendix D. 8. Removal of players In general, admins are not allowed to remove players from the rosters of their teams. As an exception to the general rule, admins may remove players in the following cases: Players with a timeout percentage of at least 25%. Multi-team players. Foreign flag players in excess of the foreign flag maximum. 9. Final results of a season For a season starting in November, the cut-off date for promotion and relegation is September, 30th. The match results at this cut-off date determine promotion and relegation of teams for the following season. The final standings of the season will be determined after all games of all matches have been finished or ultimately on December, 31st. Promotion and relegation decisions will be unaffected by this. The ranking of the teams both at the cut-off date as in the final standings will be determined by the following criteria in descending order: Number of match points. Neustadtl (Sonneborn-Berger) score. Results in the direct encounters of the tied teams. Total game points balance (total points scored less total points scored by the opponents in all matches). Random draw. 10. Rule changes Rule changes appear as updates in the forum thread “WCL rules” and are announced as a group news item. Rule adjustments are preferably performed at the start of a season, but might also take place during the season. Rules can be discussed in the forum thread below. Good luck to all teams in their matches and to all players in their games! Appendix A: Match parameters Match Name: WCL[year] R[round]: first city vs. second city (for example, WCL2017 R1: Moscow vs. Zagreb) Game Type: Standard Chess Days per Move: 3 days Rating Range: none Minimum Games: 0 Players per Club: min: differs by division, see below; max: leave free Concurrent Games: 2 Start Date: [as announced by WCL board] Start Time: see below AUTO-START: off Games are RATED: on Start time: Recommended starting time of the match is 16:00 UTC (translate to your time zone). Deviating starting times are accepted if they are on the same calendar day. If teams disagree about the preferred starting time, the team on the left hand side of the pairing ("home team") may decide and formulate the challenge. Appendix B: Team power Wildcard granting and team allocation to the parallel groups of one division is based on past performance in the WCL or other city team competitions. If information of this sort is not available, a tentative indicator of the team strength is calculated: Average rating of the group + number of members of the group. Appendix C: Foreign flag exceptions Teams of English cities: British and English flags count as home flags. Teams of Scottish cities: British and Scottish flags count as home flags. Teams of Catalan cities (Barcelona): Spanish and Catalan flags count as home flags. Teams of French cities (Paris, Bordeaux, Metz, Montauban): French, Monaco and Guadeloupe flags count as home flags. Teams Sevastopol and Makeevka: Ukrainian and Russian flags count as home flags. Team Prishtina: Kosovo and Albanian flags count as home flags. Team Tabriz: Iranian and Azerbaijan flags count as home flags. Vatican City: Vatican and Italian flags count as home flags. Team Bijeljina: Flags of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia count as home flags. Province of Ulster: British and Irish flags count as home flags. Minsk: International flags count as home flags in addition to the Belarus flag (muted). Appendix D: Match result corrections The following players are considered “irregular players”: Players whose account is closed by whatever reason. Excess foreign flag players (see Section 5). Multi-team players (see Section 6). The results of irregular players will be corrected in the following way: Irregular player against regular player: 0-2. Irregular player against irregular player: 1-1. Appendix E (Chess960 WCL): The Chess960 WCL is played out on an annual basis in addition to WCL, with the first round starting in April. League will be played in 5 divisions in 2025: Division 1 with 10 teams (last 2 teams are relegated to Division 2); Division 2 with 10 teams (top 2 teams are promoted to Division 1, last 2 teams are relegated to Division 3); Division 3 with 10 teams (top 2 teams are promoted to Division 2, last 2 teams are relegated to Division 4); Division 4 with 10 teams (top 2 teams are promoted to Division 3, last 3 teams are relegated to Division 5); Division 5 all other teams (top 3 teams are promoted to Division 4); Match Name: 960 WCL[year] R[round]: first team vs. second team (for example, 960 WCL2025 R1: Team Kharkiv vs Team Buenos Aires) Minimum players: Division 1 (15+), Division 2 (12+), Division 3 (9+), Division 4 (7+), Division 5 (5+) Ultimate deadline for the season is June 30th Appendix F (European Cities League): F1) Set-up of the league: The ECL is played out on an annual basis in addition to WCL, with the first round starting in November and the last round starting in July. The year of the season is the year in which the last round starts. League will be played in 5 divisions: Division 1 with 10 teams (last 2 teams are relegated to Division 2); Division 2 with 10 teams (top 2 teams are promoted to Division 1, last 2 teams are relegated to Division 3); Division 3 with 10 teams (top 2 teams are promoted to Division 2, last 2 teams are relegated to Division 4); Division 4 with 10 teams (top 2 teams are promoted to Division 3, last 3 teams are relegated to Division 5); Division 5 all the other teams (top 3 teams are promoted to Division 4);  Minimum players: Division 1 (15+), Division 2 (12+), Division 3 (9+), Division 4 (7+), Division 5 (5+) Match Name: ECL[year] R[round]: first team vs. second team (for example, ECL2025 R1: Team Kyiv vs Team Kherson) F2) Merging of WCL and ECL matches If both teams play in the same division of WCL and ECL, then the WCL match is counted for ECL by default too (all rounds of 2024 season will be considered). If both teams agree, then they can set up a separate match as per ECL schedule. Setting up of the match on ECL schedule with proper name is considered as agreement to play a separate match for ECL.

Below you find the divisions for WCL 2024 with team contacts. Please provide a second team contact if it is still missing. Team contacts in parentheses are closed, inactive or don't accept messages. Please replace. If team contacts change, report the new contacts in the comment section. Anyone who is interested in helping with the organisation of the Cities Leagues is invited to contact @RainPiper or @serhiivolokh. @ Division 1 Team admin 1 admin 2 Buenos Aires (ARG) @Guinie @drcosme Kyiv (UKR) @adriano81 @V1738 Odessa (UKR) @karllito @Ramin_Chess Prishtina (KOS) @armendmulakaj1984 @kali_i_bekuar Prague (CZE) @Dale00007 @LancelotDuLac Lviv (UKR) @karina55 @SergijTymchuk Zagreb (CRO) @SegrtHlapic @homodiurnus The Hague (NLD) @RainPiper @smirknov Shostka (UKR) @OlegShevchenko2020 @KatyKat11 Baku (AZE) @seyranhacibeyli @gmmdova Division 2A Team admin 1 admin 2 Niš (SRB) @Laki_69 @iksnicamod Sydney (AUS) @stoker68 @kookaburrra Sofia (BGR) @panstoy @Valyo1954 Barcelona (ESP) @MortadeloKing @robl3 Melbourne (AUS) @Durny @19andrew64 Messini (GRE) @Manitarius @chesswine27 Yerevan (ARM) @gevorg1983 @teamhayastan Kharkiv (UKR) @YanaB @Enhard Brno (CZE) @Vezekmin @lamanchacz Budapest (HUN) @atudor60 @carina_e Division 2B Team admin 1 admin 2 Almaty (KAZ) @Alchemist01 @krypton00 Adelaide (AUS) @kookaburrra @jim-burger London (GBR) @markh01 @KingsWaterman Kherson (UKR) @kostyazaharov @believepony Beograd (SRB) @grujicdragan @nemirena Minsk (BLR) @sergtaw @hervasij_vylivaha Quebec (CAN) @borisside @Mlongpre2 Athens (GRE) @Anastasakis @drotsios Ternopil (UKR) @Ukranian_boy @Zybex9 Singapore (SGP) @hiyyo @boonthamchess Division 3A Team admin 1 admin 2 Košice (SVK) @SlovakAustralia @yosipko Toronto (CAN) @Penguincw @bluejay66 Perth (AUS) @Vetuspetram @Dugite295 Uttar Pradesh (IND) @shikharthechampionn @Viratkholi29 Salerno (ITA) @Colpodifulmine @SouthForce Santiago (CHI) @jcvila @BOTE1974 Munster (IRL) @ImperfectAge @Chambro1970 Rome (ITA) @Cavusu @racine6 Sheffield (GBR) @KittyB @superdrewe53 Glasgow (GBR) @rogerthecabinboy @croftangry20 Division 3B Team admin 1 admin 2 Bucharest (ROM) @CostinC19 @lvali40 Bratislava (SVK) @security1985 @enoshan Norwich (GBR) @matt1979 @mrsdribble Metz (FRA) @Blastingchess @Menthe Edinburgh (GBR) @Penguin89C @Chambro1970 Lyon (FRA) @felinferoce @ludovic69 Hong Kong (HKG) @kwokman @Braveskygo Aberdeen (GBR) @RussTay73 @Chambro1970 Jakarta (INA) @Niskala-Wastukancana @ssakti Lisbon (PRT) @jcoelho72 @LMCDuarte Division 3C Team admin 1 admin 2 Brisbane (AUS) @forest888 @kookaburrra Maracena (ESP) @carlosube @Pertinhez76 Kish Island (IRI) @Endless-love @Mobarez Torino (ITA) @Giampiero111 @Implacabile Tehran (IRI) @Endless-love @Mobarez Dnipro (UKR) @mxgolota @Eduard_1980 Thessaloniki (GRE) @erotokritos @Anastasios Bologna (ITA) @JFsebastianKnight @DirkFlasche Donetsk (UKR) @serhiivolokh @V1738 Karagandy (KAZ) @vmlopach @bruno_asfalto Division 4A Team admin 1 admin 2 Birmingham (GBR) @Aknightslayer @Sezlez Mexico City (MEX) @benjatorr @buazel Hobart (AUS) @tpd @kookaburrra New Delhi (IND) @VIDYUTGANESH @lsubbu Hertford (GBR) @Chambro1970 @BoringLoveChild Mykolayiv (UKR) @Kyrylo26 @Dimon131 Toulouse (FRA) @deep-blou @captainmorue Khmelnitskiy (UKR) @V1738 @ruslan_immunity Korca (ALB) @coolwatch60 @thomaq1964 Inverness (GBR) @martinhind3 @arendijus Division 4B Team admin 1 admin 2 São Paulo (BRA) @Schincariol @CzarPC Canberra (AUS) @kookaburrra @handle223 Isle of Man (GBR) @dfhunter @matt1979 Venezia (ITA) @baldazar @doktor_oleg Levice (SVK) @martinez_95 @Peter_Geffert Córdoba (ARG) @pulpopaz @ariel_scilingo29 Chisinau (MDA) @RoscaDavidd @TaxiDriver56 Slovyansk (UKR) @Ukranian_boy @VirasAP Changsha (CHN) @Chusuk @Daiyuchen0713 Sumy (UKR) @Yanenko70 @serhiivolokh Division 4C Team admin 1 admin 2 Ulster (GBR/IRL) @vivoj @kookaburrra Plovdiv (BUL) @pistons @Stoyanov22 Connacht (IRL) @RIZLAPRINCE @Chambro1970 Washington DC (USA) @do_not_touch @tiller2 Bradford (GBR) @Chriswray Manila (PHI) @GregCachin @RayDuqueIII Zaporizhzhia (UKR) @Larsorub @Ukranian_boy Baltimore (USA) @The_Numenorean @-Blackburne- Farsley (GBR) @anthonychess82 @davet65 Kraków (POL) @Franek_Rakoczy @GM_Plejady Division 4D Team admin 1 admin 2 Reggio Emilia (ITA) @purplechess46 @vegan4love Brasilia (BRA) @Victor_SEP @luizevandro Castilla y León (ESP) @ganpel @maxi1968 Bordeaux (FRA) @Rookover @Cheztreize Milano (ITA) @Supermatt69 @Dag_Stinner Makeevka (UKR) @Zodchy-8686 @pan_naukovets Darwin (AUS) @kookaburrra @matsunden Dhaka (BGD) @ahsanbd @N8Sun Udine (ITA) @andrewud @roiattinoris Dublin (IRL) @Chambro1970 @Wikicha Division 4E Team admin 1 admin 2 Bristol (GBR) @Bluechessmaster @CharlesT Honolulu (USA) @uptophigh @louieluigi Leeds (GBR) @pannalman @Tricky_Dicky Calabria (ITA) @FrancescoCicero92 @Marbo999 Boulogne (FRA) @rclboris @bryanflr Istanbul (TUR) @leventmollamustafa @xhantian Cherkasy (UKR) @Yuriy_Leonidov @shumaaher Oxford (GBR) @BizzOX14 @Chambro1970 Berdychiv (UKR) @Berdgross @YriiKudryashov bye

Rules:  https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/wcl-2024-rules Team contacts:  https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/chess960-wcl-2024-team-contacts  All match results are preliminary and indicative (occasionally updated by hand). Consult https://chessteams.info/ for live results and rankings. Minimum players number is 5. Place 1 is promoted to Division 3. Places 2-3 are promoted to newly created Division 4 with 7+ players. Results may change due to ex-post corrections (see rules) until the cut-off dates on March, 31st (for relegation) and June, 30th (for the final ranking). Cross Table    Per Sum Her Kar Teh Plv Can PMo total place Perth (SCO)   0 1 0 1 1 1 1 5 1 Sumy (UKR) 1   1 0 0 0 ½ 1 3½ 3 Hertford (ENG) 0 0   ½ 1 1 1 0 3½ 4 Karagandy (KAZ) 1 0 ½   0 1 1 1 4½ 2 Tehran (IRA) 0 0 0 1   0 0 1 2 6 Plovdiv (BLG) 0 0 0 0 0   1 0 1 8 Canberra (AUS) 0 ½ 0 0 1 0   1 2½ 5 Puerto Montt (CHI) 0 0 1 0 0 0 0   1 7   Pairings Team A   Team B match ID players rawresult correctedresult matchpoints Round 1 (announcement: 2024-04-07, start: 2024-04-21) Perth vs Puerto Montt 1612815       1-0 Sumy vs Canberra 1612605 5 5-5   ½-½ Hertford vs Plovdiv 1612947       1-0 Karagandy vs Tehran 1612585 6 ½-11½ 2½-9½ 0-1                 Round 2 (announcement: 2024-05-05, start: 2024-05-19) Perth vs Sumy 1626151 6 4-8   0-1 Canberra vs Hertford 1626095       0-1 Plovdiv vs Karagandy 1626141 5 3-7   0-1 Puerto Montt vs Tehran 1626601       0-1                 Round 3 (announcement: 2024-06-09, start: 2024-06-23) Hertford vs Perth 1639399 6 3-9   0-1 Karagandy vs Canberra 1639333 5 6-4   1-0 Tehran vs Plovdiv 1639935       0-0 Sumy vs Puerto Montt 1639607       1-0                 Round 4 (announcement: 2024-07-07, start: 2024-07-21) Perth vs Karagandy 1651269 5 4-6   0-1 Sumy vs Hertford 1650459 6 8-4 7-5 1-0 Canberra vs Tehran 1650437       1-0 Puerto Montt vs Plovdiv         0-0                 Round 5 (announcement: 2024-07-28, start: 2024-08-11) Tehran vs Perth 1658163       0-1 Karagandy vs Sumy  1658863       0-0 Hertford vs Puerto Montt 1659053 5 4½-5½ 6½-3½ 0-1 Plovdiv vs Canberra 1658217       1-0                 Round 6 (announcement: 2024-08-18, start: 2024-09-01) Perth vs Plovdiv 1666709 5 7-3   1-0 Sumy vs Tehran 1666921       0-0 Hertford vs Karagandy 1666781 5 5-5 7-3 ½-½ Puerto Montt vs Canberra 1666761 5 2½-7½ 2-8  0-1                 Round 7 (announcement: 2024-09-08, start: 2024-09-22) Canberra vs Perth 1674753 6 2-10   0-1 Plovdiv vs Sumy 1674887       0-0 Tehran vs Hertford 1674837       0-1 Karagandy vs Puerto Montt 1674823 6 10-2   1-0      

Rules:  https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/wcl-2024-rules Team contacts:  https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/chess960-wcl-2024-team-contacts  All match results are preliminary and indicative (occasionally updated by hand). Consult https://chessteams.info/ for live results and rankings. Minimum players number is 5. Place 1 is promoted to Division 3. Places 2-3 are promoted to newly created Division 4 with 7+ players. Results may change due to ex-post corrections (see rules) until the cut-off dates on March, 31st (for relegation) and June, 30th (for the final ranking). Cross Table    Don Uls Que Mil Man IoM Mad Val total place Donetsk (UKR)   1 0 1 1 1 1 1 6 1 Ulster (IRL/GBR) 0   1 1 1 1 1 1 6 3 Quebec (CAN) 1 0   1 1 1 1 1 6 2 Milano (ITA) 0 0 0   0 0 0 0 0 6-8 Manila (PHI) 0 0 0 0   0 0 0 0 6-8 Isle of Man (GBR) 0 0 0 1 0   0 1 2 4 Madrid (SPA) 0 0 0 0 0 1   0 1 5 Valparaiso (CHI) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   0 6-8   Pairings Team A   Team B match ID players rawresult correctedresult matchpoints Round 1 (announcement: 2024-04-07, start: 2024-04-21) Donetsk vs Valparaiso 1611201       1-0 Ulster vs Madrid 1612781 5 7-3   1-0 Quebec vs Isle of Man 1612915 6 8-4   1-0 Milano vs Manila 1617137       0-0                 Round 2 (announcement: 2024-05-05, start: 2024-05-19) Donetsk vs Ulster 1626003 5 9-1   1-0 Madrid vs Quebec 1626211 7 3½-10½   0-1 Isle of Man vs Milano 1626289       1-0 Valparaiso vs Manila         0-0                 Round 3 (announcement: 2024-06-09, start: 2024-06-23) Quebec vs Donetsk 1639403 6 7½-4½   1-0 Milano vs Madrid         0-0 Manila vs Isle of Man 1641907       0-0 Ulster vs Valparaiso 1639609       1-0                 Round 4 (announcement: 2024-07-07, start: 2024-07-21) Donetsk vs Milano 1650693       1-0 Ulster vs Quebec 1650533 6 8½-3½   1-0 Madrid vs Manila         0-0 Valparaiso vs Isle of Man         0-1                 Round 5 (announcement: 2024-07-28, start: 2024-08-11) Manila vs Donetsk 1659213 5 4½-5½   0-1 Milano vs Ulster <-       0-1 Quebec vs Valparaiso 1658361 5 7-3   1-0 Isle of Man vs Madrid 1658361 5 0-10 2-8 0-1                 Round 6 (announcement: 2024-08-18, start: 2024-09-01) Donetsk vs Isle of Man 1666771 5 8-2   1-0 Ulster vs Manila 1666931       1-0 Quebec vs Milano 1666719       1-0 Valparaiso vs Madrid         0-0                 Round 7 (announcement: 2024-09-08, start: 2024-09-22) Madrid vs Donetsk 1674763 8 6½-9½   0-1 Isle of Man vs Ulster 1675059       0-1 Manila vs Quebec 1674965       0-1 Milano vs Valparaiso 1675009       0-0      

World Cities League (WCL) Rules (updated October 2023, changes in italics) 1. General principles The World Cities League (WCL) is a team match tournament between city teams on chess.com. Its main purpose is to give chess.com members the opportunity to compete with players from other cities in a friendly sphere. The board of the WCL consists of the admins of the chess.com group “World Cities League HQ”. All details of the league organisation not specified in the rules are under the discretion of the board. The board will let its decision be guided by the principles of inclusion (make matches happen!) and fair play. One single team per city is invited to the World Cities League. If there are several teams for a city, the best ranked one on the team match leaderboard is invited first. Region teams can participate if there are no participating teams from cities within the respective region. When conflicts between overlapping regions and cities arise, the board decides on a case-to-case basis. All teams should mention a city in their name. The suggested text for the team profile description is: “This team represents [city or regional name] in the World Cities League.” 2. Set-up of the league The WCL is played out on an annual basis, with the first round starting in November and the last round starting in July. The year of the season is the year in which the last round starts. The WCL consists of four divisions, with Divisions 2 and lower containing several parallel groups. The normal division size is 10 teams. Groups in Division 4 may be smaller, depending on the total number of participating teams. Division 1 with 10 teams. Division 2 with 20 teams in two parallel groups. Division 3 with 30 teams in three parallel groups. Division 4 with all remaining teams in several parallel groups. All (groups in) divisions play a Round Robin tournament with one round per month. The normal starting date of each round is the first Wednesday of each month. After the finish of each season, teams are promoted and relegated: Two teams are relegated from Div. 1 to Div. 2. Two teams promote from Div. 2 to Div. 1 (one per group). Six teams are relegated from Div. 2 to Div. 3 (three per group). Six teams promote from Div. 3 to Div. 2 (two per group). Ten teams are relegated from Div. 3 to Div. 4 (three per group + the worst 7th ranked team). Ten teams promote from Div. 4 to Div. 3 (the top two from each group). The Chess960 World Cities League (Chess 960 WCL) and the European Cities League (ECL) follow the rules of the WCL closely. They have their own formats and schedules as described in Appendix F (Chess 960 WCL) and G (ECL). Schedules are set up to complement the WCL so that city matches are ongoing throughout the full year. 3. Announcement of rounds and match challenges Date and time of the start of a round are announced by a news item in the WCL HQ group two weeks in advance. Match challenges should be issued (by either of the teams) and accepted as fast as possible, but one week before the start of the round at the latest. See Appendix A for the necessary match parameters. If for unforeseen reasons the match challenge is accepted later than one week before the start of the round, the match may be replaced by a new match with a starting date that leaves one week for registering players. This is under the discretion of the WCL board and must be co-ordinated by message exchange. If a challenge is not accepted at the announced start of the round, the team that has received the challenge loses by forfeit (match result: 1 for the challenger, 0 for the challenged). If neither of the teams issues a challenge until the announced start of the round, both teams lose by forfeit (match points: 0 for both teams). If the match starts and ends regularly, match points are allocated 1-0 for the winner or ½-½ in case of a draw. The match result may be corrected for several reasons, see Sections 4-6. Teams are not allowed to lock their rosters before the scheduled start of the match. Unaccepted challenges may be cancelled after the announced start date of the round. 4. Minimum number of players In each division, there is a minimum number of players for each match for Division 1: 20 players (WCL), 15 players (ECL), 15 players (Chess 960 WCL) for Division 2: 15 players (WCL), 12 players (ECL), 11 players (Chess 960 WCL) for Division 3: 10 players (WCL), 9 players (ECL), 8 players (Chess 960 WCL) for Division 4: 5 players (WCL), 7 players (ECL), 5 players (Chess 960 WCL) for Division 5: --- (WCL), 5 players (ECL). A team that does not reach the player minimum at the scheduled date, loses the match by forfeit. A forfeit loss can be overruled if both teams agree to start the match with the required number of players later. A delayed match start may not be later than the start of the following round. Forfeited matches may be cancelled after the announced start date of the round. 5. Foreign flag players The flag of the country the city is located in is considered the home flag of the team. All players with a different flag than the home flag are considered “foreign flag players”. This also applies to the international flag. The number of foreign flag players is limited to 1 in each cumulative (possibly incomplete) block of 4 players (i.e. max 1 player on boards 1-4, max 2 players on boards 1-8, max 3 players on boards 1-12 etc.) Foreign flag players in excess of these cumulative maxima are considered irregular players and their results are corrected according to Appendix D. Foreign flag players are checked from top to bottom: The players on the highest possible boards are considered regular, the rest irregular. A violation of the foreign flag player rule must be claimed in the forum of the respective league/division. It is not checked automatically. For a number of teams additional flags are recognised as home flags. These teams and the additional home flags are listed in Appendix C. If a team thinks that its characteristics warrant its addition to this list of exceptions, it can send a request to the WCL board. Granting this request is under discretion of the WCL board. 6. Multi-team players Each player is only allowed to play for one team during one season in one league. A player who has played at least twice for each of more than one team is considered an irregular multi-team player and his game results are corrected according to Appendix D. 7. Match result correction for closed accounts If players’ accounts are closed -- either by chess.com or by the players themselves -- these players are considered irregular players and their results are corrected according to Appendix D. 8. Removal of players In general, admins are not allowed to remove players from the rosters of their teams. As an exception to the general rule, admins may remove players in the following cases: Players with a timeout percentage of at least 25%. Multi-team players. Foreign flag players in excess of the foreign flag maximum. 9. Final results of a season For a season starting in November, the cut-off date for promotion and relegation is September, 30th. The match results at this cut-off date determine promotion and relegation of teams for the following season. The final standings of the season will be determined after all games of all matches have been finished or ultimately on December, 31st. Promotion and relegation decisions will be unaffected by this. The ranking of the teams both at the cut-off date as in the final standings will be determined by the following criteria in descending order: Number of match points. Neustadtl (Sonneborn-Berger) score. Results in the direct encounters of the tied teams. Total game points balance (total points scored less total points scored by the opponents in all matches). Random draw. 10. Rule changes Rule changes appear as updates in the forum thread “WCL rules” and are announced as a group news item. Rule adjustments are preferably performed at the start of a season, but might also take place during the season. Rules can be discussed in the forum thread below. Good luck to all teams in their matches and to all players in their games! Appendix A: Match parameters Match Name: WCL[year] R[round]: first city vs. second city (for example, WCL2017 R1: Moscow vs. Zagreb) Game Type: Standard Chess Days per Move: 3 days Rating Range: none Minimum Games: 0 Players per Club: min: differs by division, see below; max: leave free Concurrent Games: 2 Start Date: [as announced by WCL board] Start Time: see below AUTO-START: off Games are RATED: on Start time: Recommended starting time of the match is 16:00 UTC (translate to your time zone). Deviating starting times are accepted if they are on the same calendar day. If teams disagree about the preferred starting time, the team on the left hand side of the pairing ("home team") may decide and formulate the challenge. Appendix B: Team power Wildcard granting and team allocation to the parallel groups of one division is based on past performance in the WCL or other city team competitions. If information of this sort is not available, a tentative indicator of the team strength is calculated: Average rating of the group + number of members of the group. Appendix C: Foreign flag exceptions Teams of English cities: British and English flags count as home flags. Teams of Scottish cities: British and Scottish flags count as home flags. Teams of Catalan cities (Barcelona): Spanish and Catalan flags count as home flags. Teams of French cities (Paris, Bordeaux, Metz, Montauban): French, Monaco and Guadeloupe flags count as home flags. Teams Sevastopol and Makeevka: Ukrainian and Russian flags count as home flags. Team Prishtina: Kosovo and Albanian flags count as home flags. Team Tabriz: Iranian and Azerbaijan flags count as home flags. Vatican City: Vatican and Italian flags count as home flags. Team Bijeljina: Flags of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia count as home flags. Province of Ulster: British and Irish flags count as home flags. Appendix D: Match result corrections The following players are considered “irregular players”: Players whose account is closed by whatever reason. Excess foreign flag players (see Section 5). Multi-team players (see Section 6). The results of irregular players will be corrected in the following way: Irregular player against regular player: 0-2. Irregular player against irregular player: 1-1. Appendix E (Chess960 WCL): The Chess960 WCL is played out on an annual basis in addition to WCL, with the first round starting in April. League will be played in 3 divisions Division 1 with 10 teams (last 2 teams are relegated to Division 2); Division 2 with 10 teams (top 2 teams are promoted to Division 1, last 2 teams are relegated to Division 3); Division 3 with 10 teams (top 2 teams are promoted to Division 2, last 3 teams are relegated to the newly created Division 4 with 7+ players minimum); Division 4 all other teams in one or several parallel groups (top 1 team is promoted to Division 3, 2-3 places are promoted to the newly created Division 4 with 7+ players); Match Name: 960 WCL[year] R[round]: first team vs. second team (for example, 960 WCL2023 R1: Team Lviv vs. Team Zagreb) Minimum players: Division 1 (15+), Division 2 (10+), Division 3 (5+) Ultimate deadline for the season is June 30th Appendix F (European Cities League): F1) Set-up of the league: The ECL is played out on an annual basis in addition to WCL, with the first round starting in November and the last round starting in July. The year of the season is the year in which the last round starts. League will be played in 5 divisions in 2024: Division 1 with 10 teams (15+ players); Division 2 with 10 teams (12+ players); Division 3 with 10 teams (9+ players); Division 4 with 10 teams (7+ players); Division 5 all the other teams (5+ players); Promotion and relegation will be managed as described here. Match Name: ECL[year] R[round]: first team vs. second team (for example, ECL2024 R1: Team Kyiv vs. Team Lviv) F2) Merging of WCL and ECL matches If both teams play in the same division of WCL and ECL, then the WCL match is counted for ECL by default too (all rounds of 2024 season will be considered). If both teams agree, then they can set up a separate match as per ECL schedule. Setting up of the match on ECL schedule with proper name is considered as agreement to play a separate match for ECL.

Rules:  https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/wcl-2024-rules Team contacts:  https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/chess960-wcl-2024-team-contacts  All match results are preliminary and indicative (occasionally updated by hand). Consult https://chessteams.info/ for live results and rankings. Minimum players number is 5. Place 1 is promoted to Division 3. Places 2-3 are promoted to newly created Division 4 with 7+ players. Results may change due to ex-post corrections (see rules) until the cut-off dates on March, 31st (for relegation) and June, 30th (for the final ranking). Cross Table    San UPr Mex Hob Abe Ber Pre For total place Santiago (CHI)   0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 8 Uttar Pradesh (IND) 1   1 1 1 1 ½ 0 5½ 2 Mexico (MEX) 1 0   0 ½ 0 1 0 2½ 7 Hobart (AUS) 1 0 1   1 0 0 0 3 5-6 Aberdeen (SCO) 1 0 ½ 0   1 0 1 3½ 4 Berdychiv (UKR) 1 0 1 1 0   0 0 3 5-6 Prešov (SVK) 0 ½ 0 1 1 1   0 3½ 3 Fortaleza (BRA) 1 1 1 1 0 1 1   6 1   Pairings Team A   Team B match ID players rawresult correctedresult matchpoints Round 1 (announcement: 2024-04-07, start: 2024-04-21) Santiago vs Fortaleza 1611189       0-1 Uttar Pradesh vs Prešov 1614769 6 6-6   ½-½ Mexico vs Berdychiv 1614293 7 3-11   0-1 Hobart vs Aberdeen 1613243 9 9½-8½   1-0                 Round 2 (announcement: 2024-05-05, start: 2024-05-19) Santiago vs Uttar Pradesh 1626347       0-1 Prešov vs Mexico 1629081       0-1 Berdychiv vs Hobart 1626101 7 10½-3½ 9½-4½ 1-0 Fortaleza vs Aberdeen 1626641 10 5-15   0-1                 Round 3 (announcement: 2024-06-09, start: 2024-06-23) Mexico vs Santiago 1642443       1-0 Hobart vs Prešov 1639449 6 2-10   0-1 Aberdeen vs Berdychiv 1639615 6 7-5 9-3 1-0 Uttar Pradesh vs Fortaleza 1639777 18 15½-20½ 13½-22½ 0-1                 Round 4 (announcement: 2024-07-07, start: 2024-07-21) Santiago vs Hobart 1650553       0-1 Uttar Pradesh vs Mexico 1650669 6 10-2   1-0 Prešov vs Aberdeen 1652837 6 7½-4½   1-0 Fortaleza vs Berdychiv 1651287 6 7-5   1-0                 Round 5 (announcement: 2024-07-28, start: 2024-08-11) Aberdeen vs Santiago 1658363       1-0 Hobart vs Uttar Pradesh 1658165       0-1 Mexico vs Fortaleza 1658537 9 ½-17½   0-1 Berdychiv vs Prešov 1659065 6 3½-8½ 1½-10½ 0-1                 Round 6 (announcement: 2024-08-18, start: 2024-09-01) Santiago vs Berdychiv 1669631       0-1 Uttar Pradesh vs Aberdeen 1666799 7 7½-6½   1-0 Mexico vs Hobart 1666729 8 4-12   0-1 Fortaleza vs Prešov 1667271 6 9-3   1-0                 Round 7 (announcement: 2024-09-08, start: 2024-09-22) Prešov vs Santiago 1674901 6 5-7   0-1 Berdychiv vs Uttar Pradesh 1675649 8 4½-11½ 6½-9½ 0-1 Aberdeen vs Mexico 1675079 7 7-7   ½-½ Hobart vs Fortaleza 1674907 6 1-11   0-1      

1 simultaneous/concurrent game 2 days per move Is there interest from other cities? Please comment if so

Rules: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/wcl-2024-rules Team contacts: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/wcl-2024-team-contacts All match results are preliminary and indicative (occasionally updated by hand). Consult https://chessteams.info/ for live results and rankings. One team promotes to Division 1. Three teams are relegated to Division 3. Results may change due to ex-post corrections (see rules) until the cut-off dates on September, 30th (for relegation) and December, 31st (for the final ranking). @ Cross Table    Nis Syd Sof Bar Mel Mes Yer Kha Brn Bud total Niš (SRB)   1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 7 Sydney (AUS) 0   1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 Sofia (BGR) 0 0   0 1 0 1 1 0 1 4 Barcelona (ESP) 1 1 1   1 1 1 1 1 1 9 Melbourne (AUS) 0 1 0 0   0 0 0 1 1 3 Messini (GRE) 1 1 1 0 1   0 ½ 1 1 6½ Yerevan (ARM) 0 1 0 0 1 1   0 1 1 5 Kharkiv (UKR) 0 1 0 0 1 ½ 1   1 1 5½ Brno (CZE)  0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0   1 2 Budapest (HUN) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   0 @ Pairings Team A   Team B match ID players raw result corrected result match points Round 1 (announcement: 2023-10-18, start: 2023-11-01) Niš vs Budapest 1540869 23 25½-20½ 25-20½ 1-0 Sydney vs Brno 1541665 18 25-11 23½-12½ 1-0 Sofia vs Kharkiv 1540905 30 33½-26½ 33½-26½ 1-0 Barcelona vs Yerevan 1542167 16 22½-9½ 22½-9½ 1-0 Melbourne vs Messini 1541073 35 25½-44½ 26½-43½ 0-1                 Round 2 (announcement: 2023-11-22, start: 2023-12-06) Budapest vs Messini 1552685 16 14½-17½ 14½-17½ 0-1 Yerevan vs Melbourne 1551699 19 20-18 20-18 1-0 Kharkiv vs Barcelona 1551519 19 15-23 18-20 FF* 0-1 Brno vs Sofia 1551211 19 17-21 19½-18½ 1-0 Niš vs Sydney 1551125 22 23½-20½ 23½-20½ 1-0                 Round 3 (announcement: 2023-12-20, start: 2024-01-03) Sydney vs Budapest 1562565 24 26-22 26-22 1-0 Sofia vs Niš 1562609 24 23-25 23-25 0-1 Barcelona vs Brno 1563357 19 23½-14½ 23½-14½ 1-0 Melbourne vs Kharkiv 1562787 22 18-26 16-28 0-1 Messini vs Yerevan 1562789 17 12½-21½ 12½-21½ 0-1                 Round 4 (announcement: 2024-01-24, start: 2024-02-07) Budapest vs Yerevan 1578411 20 14-26 14-26 0-1 Kharkiv vs Messini 1578275 19 22½-15½ 19-19 ½-½ Brno vs Melbourne 1578217 20 13-27 13-27 0-1 Niš vs Barcelona 1578087 26 14-38 14½-37½ FF* 0-1 Sydney vs Sofia 1577997 28 29-27 31-25 1-0                 Round 5 (announcement: 2024-02-21, start: 2024-03-06) Sofia vs Budapest 1591293 20 22-18 21-19 1-0 Barcelona vs Sydney 1590686 33 48½-17½ 47½-18½ 1-0 Melbourne vs Niš 1590919 23 6-40 5½-40½ 0-1 Messini vs Brno 1591091 15 17½-12½ 16-14 1-0 Yerevan vs Kharkiv 1591829 16 12½-19½ 12½-19½ 0-1                 Round 6 (announcement: 2024-03-20, start: 2024-04-03) Budapest vs Kharkiv 1596345 19 14-24 15-23 0-1 Brno vs Yerevan 1603397 18 14½-21½ 14½-21½ 0-1 Niš vs Messini 1603361 29 26½-31½ 26½-31½ 0-1 Sydney vs Melbourne 1604283 27 17-37 17½-36½ 0-1 Sofia vs Barcelona 1603187 41 19½-62½ 21-61 0-1                 Round 7 (announcement: 2024-04-17, start: 2024-05-01) Barcelona vs Budapest 1618235 26 32½-19½ 31½-20½ 1-0 Melbourne vs Sofia 1618647 20 26-24 14-26 0-1 Messini vs Sydney 1617837 16 23-9 23-9 1-0 Yerevan vs Niš 1618169 15 5-25 5-25 0-1 Kharkiv vs Brno 1618911 -- -- -- 1-0                 Round 8 (announcement: 2024-05-22, start: 2024-06-05) Budapest vs Brno 1633135 20 17-23 17-23 0-1 Niš vs Kharkiv 1632913 27 29½-22½ 29½-22½ 1-0 Sydney vs Yerevan 1632755 20 17-23 17-23 0-1 Sofia vs Messini 1632975 15 12-18 11-19 0-1 Barcelona vs Melbourne 1633011 30 44½-15½ 44½-15½ 1-0                 Round 9 (announcement: 2024-06-19, start: 2024-07-03) Melbourne vs Budapest 1643203 26 27-25 27-25 1-0 Messini vs Barcelona 1643443 26 25-27 25-27 0-1 Yerevan vs Sofia <- -- -- -- 0-1 Kharkiv vs Sydney 1643251 22 34½-7½ 34½-7½ 1-0 Brno vs Niš 1643007 17 10-24 10-24 0-1       FF* 1551519: player #4 of Barcelona is an irregular foreign-flag player.FF* 1578087: player #4 of Barcelona is an irregular foreign-flag player.

Registration is open for the 2024 season of the World Cities League. In order to reduce problems with unresponsive teams to a minimum, we ask all teams for confirmation of their participation and for an update of their team representatives. Please confirm your participation in the WCL 2024 by posting two team representatives in the thread below (and a link to the team homepage if your team is new to the WCL). -- Observe: Registration will remain open until September 30th. We will try to accommodate teams that register after this date, but this cannot be warranted. Team representatives need to be accessible for communication. In the settings, "Send and Receive Messages" must be set to "All members". The allocation of teams to divisions below is preliminary (based on the live standings of September 1st). De definite composition of divisions will be determined on the announced cut-off date (September, 30th). Minimum team sizes are 20 (Div. 1), 15 (Div. 2), 10 (Div. 3), 5 (Div 4). If you doubt whether your team can reach this size, withdrawal to a lower division might be an option. The first round of the WCL 2024 will be announced on October, 18th and start on November, 1st. Division 1 (10 teams) Team status admin 1 admin 2 Buenos Aires (ARG) confirmed @Guinie @drcosme Kyiv (UKR) confirmed @adriano81 @V1738 Odessa (UKR) confirmed @karllito @ramin_chess Prishtina (KOS) confirmed @armendmulakaj1984 @kali_i_bekuar Prague (CZE) confirmed @Dale00007 @LancelotDuLac Lviv (UKR) confirmed @karina55 @SergijTymchuk Zagreb (CRO) confirmed @SegrtHlapic @homodiurnus The Hague (NLD) confirmed @RainPiper @smirknov Shostka (UKR) (2) confirmed @OlegShevchenko2020 @KatyKat11 Baku (AZE) (2) confirmed @Planet-earth @Ramin_chess Division 2 (20 teams, 2 parallel groups) Team status admin 1 admin 2 Niš (SRB) (1) confirmed @Laki_69 @iksnicamod Santa Fe (ARG) (1) withdrawn @laviega Almaty (KAZ) confirmed @Alchemist01 @krypton00 Yerevan (ARM) confirmed @gevorg1983 @teamhayastan Adelaide (AUS) confirmed @kookaburra @jim-burger Beograd (SRB) confirmed @grujicdragan @nemirena Sydney (AUS) confirmed @stoker68 @kookaburrra Minsk (BLR) confirmed @sergtaw @hervasij_vylivaha Sofia (BGR) confirmed @panstoy @Valyo1954 Messini (GRE) confirmed @Manitarius @chesswine27 London (GBR) confirmed @markh01 @KingsWaterman Melbourne (AUS) confirmed @Durny @19andrew64 Kherson (UKR) confirmed @kostyazaharov @believepony Barcelona (ESP) confirmed @MortadeloKing @robl3 Kharkiv (UKR) (3) confirmed @YanaB @Enhard Athens (GRE) (3) confirmed @Anastasakis @drotsios Ternopil (UKR) (3) confirmed @Ukranian_boy @Zybex9 Brno (CZE) (3) confirmed @Vezekmin @lamanchacz Singapore (SGP) (3) confirmed @hiyyo @boonthamchess Košice (SVK) (3) confirmed @SlovakAustralia @yosipko Division 3 (30 teams, 3 parallel groups) Team status admin 1 admin 2 Bucharest (ROM) (2) confirmed @radmar @lvali40 Budapest (HUN) (2) confirmed @atudor60 @carina_e Toronto (CAN) (2) confirmed @Penguincw @bluejay66 Brisbane (AUS) (2) confirmed @forest888 @kookaburrra Quebec (CAN) (2) confirmed @borisside @Mlongpre2 Montauban (FRA) (2) alerted (3) Norwich (GBR) confirmed @matt1979 @mrsdribble Perth (AUS) confirmed @Vetuspetram @Dugite295 Tokyo (JAP) alerted (3) @Hemdani Metz (FRA) confirmed @Blastingchess @Menthe Bratislava (SVK) confirmed @security1985 @enoshan Edinburgh (GBR) confirmed @Penguin89C @Chambro1970 Munster (IRL) confirmed @ImperfectAge @Chambro1970 Dnipro (UKR) confirmed @mxgolota @Eduard_1980 Tel Aviv (ISR) alerted (3) Maracena (ESP) confirmed @carlosube @Pertinhez76 Kish Island (IRI) confirmed @Endless-love @Mobarez Torino (ITA) confirmed @Giampiero111 @Implacabile Salerno (ITA) confirmed @Colpodifulmine @SouthForce Santiago (CHI) confirmed @jcvila @BOTE1974 Tehran (IRI) confirmed @Endless-love @Mobarez Lyon (FRA) confirmed @felinferoce @ludovic69 Sinop (TUR) (4) withdrawn @Chess057 Bologna (ITA) (4) confirmed @JFsebastianKnight @DirkFlasche Sheffield (GBR) (4) confirmed @KittyB @superdrewe53 Donetsk (UKR) (4) confirmed @serhiivolokh @V1738 Reggio Emilia (ITA) (4) confirmed (div 4) @purplechess46 @vegan4love Jakarta (INA) (4) confirmed @Niskala-Wastukancana @ssakti Karagandy (KAZ) (4) confirmed @vmlopach @bruno_asfalto Lisbon (PRT) (4) confirmed @jcoelho72 @LMCDuarte Division 4 (all remaining teams, several parallel groups) Team status admin 1 admin 2 Canberra (AUS) (3) confirmed @kookaburrra @handle223 Leinster (IRL) (3) alerted (3) Hong Kong (HKG) (3) confirmed @kwokman @Braveskygo Rome (ITA) (3) confirmed @barocci @racine6 São Paulo (BRA) (3) confirmed @Schincariol @Theaterpianist Honolulu (USA) (3) confirmed @uptophigh @louieluigi Birmingham (GBR) (3) confirmed @Aknightslayer @Sezlez Dundee (GBR) (3) withdrawn @MunroBagger Aberdeen (SCO) confirmed @RussTay73 @Chambro1970 Thessaloniki (GRE) confirmed @erotokritos @Anastasios Mexico City (MEX) confirmed @benjatorr @buazel Isle of Man (GBR) confirmed @dfhunter @matt1979 New Delhi (IND) confirmed @VIDYUTGANESH @lsubbu Venezia (ITA) confirmed @baldazar @doktor_oleg Istanbul (TUR) confirmed @leventmollamustafa @xhantian Bristol (GBR) confirmed @Bluechessmaster @CharlesT Ulster (GBR/IRL) confirmed @vivoj @kookaburrra Washington DC (USA) confirmed @do_not_touch @tiller2 Hobart (AUS) confirmed @tpd @kookaburrra Izmir (TUR) alerted (3) @Kingfisher_35 Bordeaux (FRA) confirmed @Rookover @Cheztreize Manila (PHI) confirmed @GregCachin @RayDuqueIII Makeevka (UKR) confirmed @Zodchy-8686 @pan_naukovets Leeds (GBR) confirmed @pannalman @Tricky_Dicky Uttar Pradesh (IND) confirmed @shikharthechampionn @Viratkholi29 Plovdiv (BUL) confirmed @pistons @Stoyanov22 Connacht (IRL) confirmed @RIZLAPRINCE @Chambro1970 Boulogne (FRA) confirmed @rclboris @fcbryan Hertford (GBR) confirmed @Chambro1970 @BoringLoveChild Milano (ITA) confirmed @Supermatt69 @Dag_Stinner Brussels (BEL) alerted (3) Glasgow (GBR) confirmed @rogerthecabinboy @croftangry20 Brasilia (BRA) confirmed @Victor_SEP @luizevandro Calabria (ITA) confirmed @FrancescoCicero92 @Marbo999 Castilla y León (ESP) confirmed @ganpel @maxi1968 Levice (SVK) confirmed @martinez_95 @Peter_Geffert Bradford (GBR) pending @Chriswray Córdoba (ARG) confirmed @pulpopaz @ariel_scilingo29 Rio de Janeiro (BRA) alerted (2) Paris (FRA) alerted (2) Mykolayiv (UKR) confirmed @Kyrylo26 @Dimon131 York (GBR) alerted (2) Kuala Lumpur (MYS) alerted (2) Tbilisi (GEO) alerted (2) Cherkasy (UKR) confirmed @Yuriy_Leonidov @shumaaher Darwin (AUS) confirmed @kookaburrra @matsunden Zaporizhzhia (UKR) confirmed @Larsorub @Ukranian_boy Chisinau (MDA) confirmed @RoscaDavidd @TaxiDriver56 Toulouse (FRA) confirmed @deep-blou @captainmorue Oxford (GBR) confirmed @BizzOX14 @Chambro1970 Dhaka (BGD) confirmed @ahsanbd @N8Sun Slovyansk (UKR) confirmed @Ukranian_boy @VirasAP Baltimore (USA) confirmed @The_Numenorean @-Blackburne- Khmelnitskiy (UKR) confirmed @V1738 @ruslan_immunity Korca (ALB) confirmed @coolwatch60 @thomaq1964 Changsha (CHN) confirmed @Ybming @zhexingjiang Farsley (GBR) confirmed @beardedberserkr @davet65 Udine (ITA) confirmed @andrewud @roiattinoris Berdychiv (UKR) confirmed @Berdgross @YriiKudryashov

Rules: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/wcl-2024-rules Team contacts: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/wcl-2024-team-contacts All match results are preliminary and indicative (occasionally updated by hand). Consult https://chessteams.info/ for live results and rankings. Two teams promote to Division 3. Results may change due to ex-post corrections (see rules) until the cut-off dates on September, 30th (for relegation) and December, 31st (for the final ranking). @ Cross Table    REm Bra CyL Bor Mil Mak Dar Dha Udi Dub total Reggio Emilia (ITA)   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 Brasilia (BRA) 0   0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 Castilla y Léon (ESP) 0 1   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 Bordeaux (FRA) 0 0 0   0 0 0 1 ½ 1 2½ Milano (ITA) 0 1 0 0   1 1 1 0 1 5 Makeevka (UKR) 0 0 0 1 0   0 1 0 0 2 Darwin (AUS) 0 1 0 1 0 1   1 0 1 5 Dhaka (BGD) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   0 0 0 Udine (ITA)  0 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 1   1 6½ Dublin (IRL) 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0   3 @ Pairings Team A   Team B match ID players raw result corrected result match points Round 1 (announcement: 2023-10-18, start: 2023-11-01) Reggio Emilia vs Dublin 1541047 11 15-7 15-7 1-0 Brasilia vs Udine 1542339 8 3-13 3-13 0-1 Castilla y Léon vs Dhaka 1540845 16 18½-13½ 18½-13½ 1-0 Bordeaux vs Darwin 1540865 -- -- -- 0-1 Milano vs Makeevka 1542653 7 14-0 14-0 1-0                 Round 2 (announcement: 2023-11-22, start: 2023-12-06) Dublin vs Makeevka 1551317 5 9-1 9-1 1-0 Darwin vs Milano 1551177 5 4-6 4-6 0-1 Dhaka vs Bordeaux   -- -- -- 0-1 Udine vs Castilla y Léon 1551233 12 11½-12½ 11½-12½ 0-1 Reggio Emilia vs Brasilia 1551301 5 8½-1½ 8½-1½ 1-0                 Round 3 (announcement: 2023-12-20, start: 2024-01-03) Brasilia vs Dublin 1562993 13 12½-13½ 12½-13½ 0-1 Castilla y Léon vs Reggio Emilia 1562589 12 12-12 10½-13½ 0-1 Bordeaux vs Udine 1565915 8 8-8 8-8 ½-½ Milano vs Dhaka -- -- -- -- 1-0 Makeevka vs Darwin 1562599 5 1-9 3-7 0-1                 Round 4 (announcement: 2024-01-24, start: 2024-02-07) Dublin vs Darwin 1578005 9 8½-9½ 8½-9½ 0-1 Dhaka vs Makeevka           Udine vs Milano 1580183 -- -- -- 1-0 Reggio Emilia vs Bordeaux 1581323 7 10-4 10-4 1-0 Brasilia vs Castilla y Léon 1578035 5 4½-5½ 4½-5½ 0-1                 Round 5 (announcement: 2024-02-21, start: 2024-03-06) Castilla y Léon vs Dublin 1590662 11 12½-9½ 12½-9½ 1-0 Bordeaux vs Brasilia 1591461 7 6-8 6-8 0-1 Milano vs Reggio Emilia 1593221 -- -- -- 0-1 Makeevka vs Udine <- -- -- -- 0-1 Darwin vs Dhaka                           Round 6 (announcement: 2024-03-20, start: 2024-04-03) Dublin vs Dhaka           Udine vs Darwin 1603515 5 10-0 10-0 1-0 Reggio Emilia vs Makeevka 1603039 -- -- -- 1-0 Brasilia vs Milano 1603257 5 2½-7½ 2½-7½ 0-1 Castilla y Léon vs Bordeaux 1603085 7 11-3 11-3 1-0                 Round 7 (announcement: 2024-04-17, start: 2024-05-01) Bordeaux vs Dublin 1571323 8 6½-9½ 8½-7½ 1-0 Milano vs Castilla y Léon 1617937 7 2-12 2-12 0-1 Makeevka vs Brasilia 1617855 7 0-14 0-14 0-1 Darwin vs Reggio Emilia 1620069 5 2-8 2-8 0-1 Dhaka vs Udine                           Round 8 (announcement: 2024-05-22, start: 2024-06-05) Dublin vs Udine 1632737 10 4-16 4-16 0-1 Reggio Emilia vs Dhaka           Brasilia vs Darwin 1633005 7 6-8 6-8 0-1 Castilla y Léon vs Makeevka 1632985 -- -- -- 1-0 Bordeaux vs Milano -- -- -- -- 0-0                 Round 9 (announcement: 2024-06-19, start: 2024-07-03) Milano vs Dublin 1644303 7 11-3 11-3 1-0 Makeevka vs Bordeaux 1647371 -- -- -- 1-0 Darwin vs Castilla y Léon 1643035 6 4-8 4-8 0-1 Dhaka vs Brasilia   -- -- --   Udine vs Reggio Emilia 1643831 7 6½-7½ 6½-7½ 0-1