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

Arbiter’s Committee (ACO)

Many of the playing and tournament rules changes will affect how Tournament Director’s do their jobs as well as some inaccuracies observed by the Qualifications Commissioner, it was decided to devote the remainder of Day 2 discussing the Arbiter’s Committee (ACO). The Arbiter Committee has been relatively stagnant in the past three years and the Arbiter’s Manual is out-of-date.

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  Revise the Arbiter’s Manual to reflect current policies and procedures.
  
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  Redefine the role of TD/IA
  
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  Establish standard and consistent lines of communications between TDs and TCs.
  
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  Propose/create a qualification ladder from a beginning TD to a certified IA with considerations of training and testing included.
  
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  Establish a periodic training and communication standard for all TDs.
  
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  Re-assess the present TD list under new guidelines.
  
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  Develop automated TD monitoring/assessment of performance.
  

Recognizing the importance of this committee and the responsibilities, the United States Federation proposed that Dr. Dennis Doren assume leadership of the committee.

The Congress in Krakow decided to set up a special rating system for Chess960. Chess960-Tournaments started from 01/01/2014 onwards can and should be created as rated. So far, this was 27 groups in ICCF and 3 national events.

Historically ICCF had no catalogue of players; this was the task of the national federations. For the introduction of the rating system in 1988, Nol van t’Riet collected a list of 8.752 players who played in rated tournaments and he published a paper list with 2.353 players. The rating software required at that time a dbase-table which was continuously extended in the following years and for the first time completely published with Eloquery in 1995 (with 22.876 players). It was always the task of the RC to maintain this table.

Since 2012, the server allows everybody in the world to sign up for the ICCF server. These entries are more or less carefully checked by the national delegates or zonal directors, accepted or rejected, and finally confirmed or removed by the RC. Today we have now 43.858 names in the database.

ICCF Ratings Commissioner

Gerhard provide a supplementary report, which is provided below.

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  25 players with published rating (12 and more results)
  
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  from 11 countries
  
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  10 from Russia
  
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  1082 results evaluated
  
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  151 players with at least 1 result
  
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  from 34 countries
  
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  amongst them 5 GM, 18 SIM, 11 IM
  
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  29 ICCF tournaments / groups, 2 from Europe, 5 national
  
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  Players’ interest in these rating lists seems to be low – so far no comment, no query, no complaint.
  

Since last Congress (8/2013)

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  3150 Signups
  
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  from 111 countries
  
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  2085 accepted and password sent (not known how many of them have registered)
  
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  1065 rejected by delegates / zonal directors
  
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    no answer / no interest
    
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    duplicates
    
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    271 not our member
    
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    258 of them from India (only 28 from India were accepted)
    

Not included which were deleted after 35 days or because of fakes or duplicates by me ( ca. 500). They leave no track in the system or in my mails.

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  Identify a group of „uninterested guests which got a password and did not register or who registered and did not start a tournament.
  
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  Send a reminder mail every three months.
  
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  Delete not registered after 6 months, not playing after two years.
  

In 2013, all in Eloquery available title tournaments were imported, total number was 1,103. Norms achieved from these tournaments were not checked yet, although registered in the player’s profile by the QCs Neil and Mariusz, it’s a long-lasting and difficult task and appropriate features on the server to facilitate it will be available soon..

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  1,351 zonal tournaments
  
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  297 regional team tournaments
  
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  1,000 national tournaments
  
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  438 friendly matches.
  

This would complete information about rated tournaments from 1993 and the details in rating history. With this action, Eloquery will definitely become superfluous.