The International Correspondence Chess Federation 2014 Congress Sydney, Australia Table of Contents
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Interzonal ReportINTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE CHESS FEDERATION SIM Everdinand Knol 138 Blom Street 0184 Silverton South Africa Email: dinandknol@gmail.com Report on the Interzonal Tournaments to the ICCF Congress of 2014 Sydney – Australia
Officials, Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen It is my privilege to report on the Interzonal Tournaments since the Congress of 2013 held in Kraków – Poland Interzonal Team Tournaments (IZTT) Background The IZTT, which were inaugurated by our former president Med Samraoui of Algeria, are held every two years as a team championship among the different geographical zones of ICCF and normally start during the month of December of each evenly numbered calendar year. Each team consists of eight players playing a double round robin event against at least four opponents. This makes it possible to qualify for title norms as at least eight games are being played. The purpose of these events is to play in the spirit of "amici sumus" (we are friends) and to give players in remote and less developed regions more exposure to competitive correspondence chess. Completed Tournaments 1st Interzonal Team Tournament – Start Date: 1 September 2000 Tournament Organiser Tournament Director Med Samraoui of Algeria (IA) IM Carlos Flores Gutiérrez of Spain (IA) The event was started with five teams making it four opponents and eight games per participant. 1 Europe A 35½ out of 64 2 Africa/Asia 35 3 Europe B 33 4 Latin America 29½ 5 North America/Pacific 27
IM Med Samraoui of Algeria (IA) SIM Carlos Flores Gutiérrez of Spain (IA) 1 Europe A 44½ out of 64 2 North America/Pacific 34 3 Africa/Asia 31 4 Europe B 30 5 Latin America 20½
SIM Med Samraoui of Algeria (IA) SIM Carlos Flores Gutiérrez of Spain (IA) The event was enlarged to six teams with five opponents and ten games per participant. 1 North America/Pacific 45½ out of 80 2 Europe A 43½ 3 Europe B 42½ 4 Africa/Asia 37 5 Latin America 36½ 6 Europe C 35 4th Interzonal Team Tournament – Start Date: 15 December 2006 Tournament Organiser Tournament Director SIM Everdinand Knol of South Africa SIM Carlos Flores Gutiérrez of Spain (IA) 1 Europe A 49 out of 80 2 Europe C 46½ 3 North America/Pacific 44 4 Europe B 42 5 Latin America 31 6 Africa/Asia 27½ 5th Interzonal Team Tournament – Start Date: 27 December 2008 Tournament Organiser Tournament Director SIM Everdinand Knol of South Africa SIM Carlos Flores Gutiérrez of Spain (IA) 1 Europe C 48 out of 80 2 Europe A 46½ 3 Latin America 41 4 North America/Pacific 38 5 Europe B 34 6 Africa/Asia 32½ 6th Interzonal Team Tournament – Start Date: 27 December 2010 Tournament Organiser Tournament Director SIM Everdinand Knol of South Africa SIM Carlos Flores Gutiérrez of Spain (IA) One game is still in progress. The results so far are: 1 Europe A 51½ 2 Europe B 46 3 North America/Pacific 42 4 Europe C 35½ 6 Latin America 32½ 3 team points 5 Africa/Asia 32½ 2 team points Results of Ongoing Tournaments 7th Interzonal Team Tournament – Start Date: 28 January 2013 Tournament Organiser Tournament Director SIM Everdinand Knol of South Africa Iain Smuts of South Africa (IA) and Per Söderberg of Sweden (IA) The event was now expanded to ten teams playing a single round robin format. This gives players the opportunity of meeting more opponents (from five to nine) without increasing the number of games (ten to nine). The feedback that I got from players is that they prefer the single game version with more opponents. 23 games are still in progress. The results so far are: 1 North America/Pacific B 39½ 2 Europe B 38 3 Europe D 37½ 4 Europe A 37 5 Europe C 37 6 North America/Pacific A 36½ 7 Latin America 33½ 8 Africa/Asia C 30½ 9 Africa/Asia B 24½ 10 Africa/Asia A 23 Future Tournaments The 8th Interzonal Team Tournament is planned to start during December. Entries have been invited and must be submitted by the end of November. To expand this event the number of teams could be increased to 13. The norms achieved would then be based on 12 games and would equate to half a title requirement. Interzonal Individual Tournaments (IZIT) At the Congress held in Kraków in Poland approval was given to organise an IZIT based on the following criteria: A set number of players from each zone are entered. These are divided into groups playing for norms and to qualify for semi-finals and a final that will produce an interzonal champion or tournament winner. In order to concentrate on development a maximum playing strength in terms of rating points can be stipulated. 1st Interzonal Individual Tournament – Start Date: 28 February 2014 Tournament Organiser Tournament Director SIM Everdinand Knol of South Africa Marco Caressa of Italy (IA) This event consists of 11 preliminary groups of 9 players each making title norms possible. The semi-finals and final will start as soon as all the qualifiers are known. It is suggested to organise this event every second year with the next one starting in December 2015. SIM Everdinand Knol August 2014 Non-Title Tournament Commissioner Dear members of the EB, dear delegates, dear friends, Here the report of the NTTC: Let me start with my sincere excuses for not being present but life decides sometimes different. As my predecessor wrote in his report to the congress in South Africa after taking over this position, you immediately have to start to work. Directly after the congress in Poland, there were the preliminaries of the 20th World Cup to be organized. In close cooperation with our friends from Russia (esp. Andrey Nikolaevich Pavlikov) we came to a nice result. A record participation of 816 different players for 1001 entries. 4 GMs (1 FIDE), 20 SIMs 31 IMs, 1 LGM, 1 LM and 1 FIDE FM. Maximum ELO is 2571 and the most players were “surprisingly” from Russia, 156. Beginning 2014, there was the 6 Web Chess Open to be organized (as usual with the CTO Dr Guido Bresadola and again a record participation with 966 entries. As soon as this was done, there was the 7th Veterans World Cup. At the moment (1st September, minor changes are still possible, there is a short waiting list) we have:
The semifinals of the 18th World Cup are well advanced here the report of Mariusz Wojnar: ICCF Diamond Jubilee World Cup 18 ICCF Diamond Jubilee Webserver World Cup 18 Event in tribute to Witold Bielecki (1947-2008) - former president of the Polish Correspondence Chess Federation and Polish delegate to ICCF - started on 2011-10-30 with 844 entries (685 players from 53 countries) distributed to 65 groups. Preliminaries were played from 2011-10-30 to 2014-03-30. Semi-finals started on 2013-08-30 with closing date of 2015-04-01 with 156 entries (from 33 countries) distributed to 12 groups. The section winner will qualify for a 15-17 player final (including former World Cup winners). Special invitation was addressed to winners of the ICCF Golden Jubilee Final tournaments (“ICCF 50 Jubilee Email Final” and “ICCF 50 Jubilee Postal Final“) in order to bridge both 50th and 60th Anniversaries of ICCF. Completed games about 75% (end of August 2014). Unfinished games until closing date 2015-04-01 will be adjudicated by TD. Games which have no influence on promotion might be allowed to be continued. All qualified players should be known by 15.05.2015. The final is expected to start on 2015-08-30 at the latest. ICCF World Cup 21 Poland has requested to serve as the Tournament Organiser for the World Cup 21. Congress voted unanimously in favour of this proposal. Our permanent promotional tournaments In 2013, we had:
In 2014, we had until the 31 of August:
The decline in the participation of class O could be explained by the newly implemented Aspirer tournament It would like to thank all of those who helped, organized, and took the lead the lead in the above-mentioned tournaments: Andrey Nikolaevich, Guido, Mariusz, Uwe, Hans-Jürgen, Willy, Andreas, and Ian. I hope I have forgotten nothing, so now I will take a deep breath, play some CC and then I will start with the 6th season of Champions League. Wish you all a nice, funny, and successful Congress. Hope I can attend in 2015. Kind regards, Markus Hömske Thematic Tournament Office Report
Bologna, August 3rd, 2014. Dear Chessfriends, As in previous years, more than 200 players participated in thematic tournaments. I am very satisfied with this level of entry, so I will again propose 12 themes (5 by post and 7 on the server) for 2015. Obviously, entries to the series of themes will continue to be always available. Chess 960 tournaments After a difficult start of the tournaments in 2012, the last year saw a good interest from players for Chess 960. I have started 7 new sections with 5 of those in the first 7 months of 2014. Congress could consider the idea to introduce free 2-game matches for those players who are new to Chess 960, giving them the possibility to play 1 or 2 free matches. The 3rd Chess 960 World Cup saw the participation of 100 players of which there were 16 titled players. The 1st Chess 960 World Cup had 103 players and the 2nd Chess 960 World Cup had 72 players so in the Chess 960 World Cup series we have had this year an increase of players. The Final of 1st Chess 960 World Cup, the Semifinals of 2nd Chess 960 World Cup and the preliminaries of 3rd Chess 960 World Cup are currently running. The 4th Chess 960 World Cup will start in March 2015. As usual, I ask all the National Federations to publish the information about 2014 themes and Chess 960 events on their websites and magazines. Amici sumus. The TT Office Leonardo Madonia Webserver Thematic Themes for 2015  I.C.C.F. Thematic Tournament Office Leonardo Madonia via Leandro Alberti 54 IT - 40137 BOLOGNA E-mail: l.madonia@iccf-europa.com WEBSERVER THEMATIC TOURNAMENTS 2015
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Postal Thematic Themes for 2015 I.C.C.F. Thematic Tournament Office Leonardo Madonia via Leandro Alberti 54 IT - 40137 BOLOGNA E-mail: l.madonia@iccf-europa.com POSTAL THEMATIC TOURNAMENTS 2015
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