The match Poland-Hungary will be one of the many accompanying events of this year’s festival in Katowice. This is the second leg encounter after the meeting held in Budapest in 2014.
Top Polish and Hungarian players will participate in the match in Katowice on 3-6 May. A day later everyone will enter the 4th Polish-Hungarian Friendship Chess Tournament.
The match will be carried out by Scheveningen System (every player of each team will play one game against every player form the other team). Both teams decide to issue a very strong compositions, that intertwine youth and experience.
The average elo of Poles is 2619:
GM Kacper Piorun 2681
GM Mateusz Bartel 2653
GM Kamil Dragun 2595
GM Daniel Sadzikowski 2546
The average elo of Hungarians is 2580:
GM Tamas Banusz 2621
GM Viktor Erdos 2577
GM Robert Ruck 2563
IM Benjamin Gledura 2557
The match is organized by the Polish Chess Federation, in cooperation with the Silesian Chess Federation and the support of the City of Katowice.