Matáv's chess team participated in the Union
Scipt international chess tournament organised between June 15 and 22,
2003 in Arosa, Switzerland. Teams of telecommunications and post
companies took part in the competition. The employees of Matáv were
placed sixth among all the teams, while if only the telecommunications
teams are considered, they finished second. The winner of the
tournament was Dutch KPN Telecom, followed by four professional postal
teams: Denmark Post, Poland Post, Postfolket Sweden and TNT.
Press News
2003. 06. 27. 00:00:00
Budapest,
The
Union Scipt chess competition has been organised every fourth year
since 1987. In 1999 the event was held in Balatonkenese, while in 2007
the tournament will be hosted by the Netherlands. According to the
rules 40 moves have to be made in 2 hours, and if the players succeed
in doing so one more hour is allocated to both of them, so a game may
last 6 hours at the most.
In previous years Matáv's team entered these competitions through a
foundation established jointly with the Hungarian Post Company; this
was the first time Matáv participated with a separate team. The five
members of the team were: Mr. Pál Kustra, Mr. József Supoló, Mr. Károly
Sugár, Mr. Attila Hídvégi and Mr. Lajos Liskán.
This year the chess team of Matáv Employees Sports Club took fourth
place from 14 competitors in Class B of the Budapest Championship. Two
years ago they were still playing in Class C, but they were the winners
already in the first year, qualifying for the higher category.
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