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6th Polish Team Chess Championship: Szczecin 1949

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6th Polish Team Chess Championship (see all-time tournament summary)
Date:	Semifinals: June-July 1949 Final: 30th October - 5th November 1949
City:	Semifinals: Gdańsk, Wrocław, Warszawa, Krynica-Zdrój Final: Szczecin, Poland
Venue:	N/A
Tournament Director:	N/A
Chief Arbiter:	N/A
Teams participating:	Semifinals: 24 (8 teams did not show up) Final: 12 (not clear what were rules of qualification; possibly top three from each group + host team were eligible; Kolejarz Wrocław and Spójnia Bydgoszcz entered the finals though they did not participate in the preliminaries)
Players participating:	85 (no masters, only master candidate and first category players)
Games played:	Semifinals: 420 Final: 396
Competition format:	There were four semifinal groups. Each semifinal group was six board round robin. Two teams qualified from each semifinal to form 12 team round robin final.
Final order decided by:	1. Game points; 2. Match points
Time control:	40 moves in 2 hours, then 20 moves in 1 hour
Downloadable game file:	49poland.zip (only 12 games are available)

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