The International Correspondence Chess Federation 2014 Congress Sydney, Australia Table of Contents

Special Applications

UKR

- 2013-12-14 WCCC36PR03 (Category 3) with 10½ out of 14.

- 2014-09-01 FINJUB-50, Semi Final, group 04 (Category 3) with at least 7 out of 10.

He is therefore fully qualified for the IM Title. Ukraine has an active CC federation, but player is not a member of NF. No application from ND, the more ND is against because of his bad behaviour.

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Correspondence Chess Federation of Ukraine (CCFU) having great respect for the ICCF, asks to refrain from bestowing any title to Lesko, Andrei (ID 940932) and to disqualify him for the life term due to below presented facts.

Lesko, Andrei has been the member of CCFU until November 8, 2013.

Beginning from July 2013, he has started to lie away the activity of CCFU and the reputation of its leaders at various internet chess sites and in personal e-mail messages.

There is no doubt that during the same period he has made numerous hacker attacks of CCFU site www.ccfu.org.ua, cracked mailboxes of chess players, deleted accounts at internet forums, falsified e-mail messages on behalf of different chess players.

More over, beginning from this August he has started to spread misinformation about the activity of the ICCF, indicating, in particular, that the ICCF cashes in on retired persons, agitating against participation in the ICCF tournaments, etc. The above is realized by means of mass-scale personal e-mail messages.

In 2013-2014 CCFU revealed 5 cases of unauthorized tampering in the play of chess players Yeremenko(940056), Yaroshenko(511731), Koshmak(940981) Dudyev (940089), Gudok( 940097). We are sure that the above was made by Lesko.

In all cases, the TDs canceled the moves made by intruder, except for the case of Y.Yaroshenko in Slav Cup IV. As a result, our team got 4 undeserved losses, thus losing any chance to fight for medal place, due to TD’s decision not to cancel illegal moves. Our Federation made respective appeal.

Besides, we would like to focus your attention at the following facts of disgraceful and immoral behavior of A.Lesko.

1. 
   In 2012 in his first tournament (EU/WS/M/031) he had a conflict with Ilken Zafer (ID 490182) and got a warning.
   
2. 
   In the same year in WCCC36pr03 his opponent Eckert (ID 510672) committed a stupid 37^th move leading to a loss. At first, the American player made a statement about unauthorized intrusion in the game but then changed his mind. In this tournamentA.Lesko achieved IM title.
   
3. 
   In 2013 A.Lesko deceived organizers of Dick van Geet Memorial and Silvian Zinser Memorial(B), having included himself in both tournaments instead of players nominated by our Federation. The fraud was discovered in 2 weeks and A.Lesko was excluded from both tournaments.
   
4. 
   In 2014 he hacked the site of Russian Association of Correspondence Chess (www/rcca-ru.com). Representatives of Russian Association may provide more detailed information about this.
   
5. 
   On July 12, 2013 A.Lesko presented anti-Semitic assaults against leaders of CCFU at www:Ukraine-chess. This information is still on the site.
   

I.Koshmak,

President of CCFU

Other official participants discussed code of conduct aspects of the case. In conclusion, although there is a preponderance of evidence against Mr. Lesko, it was determined that bad behaviour, in itself, is not cause for the withholding of a title; however, clear evidence of misconduct through intentionally altering games would be. In the end, it was decided that two votes would be taken (provisionally). The first vote would be to determine if Congress was to decide on this special application as is. If approved, the second vote would be to approve/disapprove the special application. The first vote by Congress was not to decide, i.e., postpone any decision. Nine delegates abstained from this vote, thus deciding not to vote to not vote. The voting record shows that Congress decided to postpone making a decision and will wait for further evidence of possible wrongdoing from either the Ukrainian law enforcement authorities or elsewhere.

UKR

Artur Podgursky has achieved 2 IM Norms as follows: - 2011-02-27 Vsevolod Rauzer Memorial (Category 5) with 8½ out of 12. 2011-06-07 WCCC34SF11 (Category 8) with 7 out of 12. He is therefore fully qualified for the IM Title. Application submitted by NF. Player was suspended until 2014-06-05 because of unacceptable behaviour towards an ICCF officer (3 years). However, there is no formal obstacle to award international title after penalty quarantine.

SWE

Thomas Johansson has achieved 2 IM Norms as follows:

- 2010-10-19 Champions League 2010 C Group 2 (Category 1) with 10 out of 12.

- 2013-12-06 Champions League 2012 B2 (Category 9) with 7 out of 12.