EPO Amicale
Team leaders: horst
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For colleagues / retirees of the European Patent Office, and their family members.
< last updated 05/02/2024 >
The lichess team page you are on now serves as homepage of the office-wide EPO Amicale Chess Club, for members affiliated to our sites in Munich, the Hague, Berlin and Vienna.
If you want to become a member of the EACC, please join this lichess-team first, with your lichess handle. Please let us know who you are in the comment accompanying the join-request, just so we can check your connection to the EPO before allowing you in.
You will find more general information about the EAAC, contact persons and upcoming activities in the private part of this team page, which will become available to you once your join-request has been accepted.
You will be informed about any chess related activities (online AND over-the-board) mostly via messages sent within lichess to all team members. So please check your lichess message inbox regularly if you don't want to miss out.
With this lichess-team, we play a tournament every first Wednesday of the month (usually in a blitz Arena format, 20:00-21:30). We meet up for some friendly banter during the games, in a Zoom meeting.
Traditionally at the end of the year (just like the pro's!), we play our yearly, more serious online EPO rapid & blitz tournaments (Swiss format).
Sometimes, we play friendly team battles against other companies or organisations. Example: https://lichess.org/tournament/ffZbge9N We are open to new challenges!
Check out the links to tournaments and the forum below. Please feel free to use the forum for reaching out to your chess playing colleagues or to propose activities.
Some past activities:
We participated in the World Corporate Chess Championship with three teams!
https://worldcorporate.fide.com/
http://chess-results.com/tnr549090.aspx?lan=1&art=16&turdet=YES&flag=30
There have been three simuls with GM Predrag Nikolic, Dutch-Bosnian living chess legend with a link to the EPO.
https://lichess.org/simul/6EiwQh9Y (12 participants)
https://lichess.org/simul/bo5oKx32 (10 participants)
https://lichess.org/simul/mt030TDQ (11 participants)
Tournaments
Forum
Some of us are considering to play this open tournament in Geraardsbergen, East Flanders. Home of the "Wall of Geraardsbergen", a famous climb that often features in the Ronde van Vlaanderen. And home…
GM Reinderman wrote an article about his tournament in Delft. It features puzzles from his games, including... Reinderman - Liefrink from round 1! https://www.schaaksite.nl/2024/04/03/mijn-delfts-week…
Feike should be winning now!
Feike is playing the traditional Easter weekend tournament in Delft. Today, there is a triple (!) round. In round 1, Feike played a good game against former Dutch champion GM Dimitri Reinderman, but l…
Turns out, the picture was made in 2023, it was made during a game "young vs. old", so Roos was already 51, probably wearing an old jersey.
Nor did she play chess... https://imgur.com/tbnes5r She preferred rugby. Here you see a young Rosemarijn in the jersey of Studenten Rugbyclub Thor. A weak knee, caused by a rugby-related injury, does …
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