15 June 2002 ICCF has started World Team Corchess Championship with original competition structure. Ambitious title "Champions League". Very many teams from all over the world consisting from 4 players each were sorted into preliminary groups. Only the 1-th place winner of preliminary group, leaving behind 10 rival teams promote to ICCF WORLD final team tournament. Also this promotion Quarantees the team-winner participation in a prestige CHAMPIONS LEAGUE. An elite company of the strongest world teams. Lithuania chess club "Baltijos Lyga" team had already decided the first place In a preliminary group and a promotion to a CHAMPION`s LEAGUE final. Sure the battle was very ambitious and we had difficult chess fights with rivals from Germany, former Yugoslavia, Brazil, Russia, Poland, Italy……
And here is our Baltijos Lyga team-my colleagues whom I honestly congratulate With a prestige achievements in ICCF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE. We introduce our team with photos , short bio and of course interesting games from this tournament. All picked by the players themselves. And commented. Most of them are already in chess literature and even chessinformants/e.g. Sakalauskas,V-Kaminski,R./- As many of them had not only interesting to view chess, but also many novelties even in chess theory! Please have a look and pleasure watching the unique games.