12th European Chess Club Cup: 1996

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Basic data

12th European Chess Club Cup
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: September - November 1996
City: Final: Budapest, Hungary
Venue: N/A
Tournament Director: Mr. Werner Stubevoll (AUT)
Chief Arbiter: N/A
Teams participating: 49 teams from 27 countries.
Players participating: 338 players (incl. 137 GMs, 96 IMs and 33 FMs)
Games played: 564 (21 games were forfeited)
Competition format: Two stage knock-out.
Preliminaries: seven groups playing six board knock-out. Top two teams of each group qualified to the final.
Final: six board knock-out for 16 teams (14 from preliminaries + titleholders + home team)
Match win decided by: 1. Board count; 2. Elimination rule (how it works?)
Time control: N/A
Downloadable game file: 96ecc.zip


Tournament review

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