International Correspondence Chess Federation

 

Josef Mrkvicka, Title Tournaments Commissioner

Houskova 2, 326 00 Plzen, Czech Republic

                           Tel. +420 19 7455375   Fax +420 19 7455374

Email:   titletourn@iccf.com

 

 

ICCF CORRESPONDENCE CHESS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
   ¾-Final of the 21st ICCF World Championship
 

Section: 2
Start: 3rd June, 2002

 

16th May, 2002

Dear chessfriend,

 

Welcome to ¾-final of the 21st World Correspondence Chess Championship! In order to bring this championship to a conclusion without undue delay, we shall be grateful if you make every effort to progress your games as quickly as possible.

 

For this tournament, the new ICCF Playing Rules for email play will apply. It is expected that all competitors know them, however, for safety's sake, we append the full text to this start list. Please note the new time control of 60/10 with no 2nd etl. Please also note rule 8a that normal leave is limited to 30 days per year. If you need to take more than 30 days leave, you will need to request a special leave.

 

All correspondence about this event (with the exception of any appeals) should only be sent to the Tournament Director (TD):

Dr. Ian Brooks

Email address: ianbrooks@earthlink.net

Fax number: (1) 217-244-2909 (a number in the USA)

 

If you also can be contacted by telephone / fax, please let him know. Please let him also know if you need him to write in a language other than English. He uses the machine translation at http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/ so he can handle German, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian.

 

It is expected that the tournament will end on 31.12.2003. However, in principle, ICCF tries to avoid adjudication in important games, so we will attempt to let the play continue until the following qualifications have been decided:

- the qualifications for the World Championship Final (places 1-3 in every section),
- the qualifications for the next ¾-final (60% of the possible points, provided that a higher qualification is not reached),
- the qualifications for the next semifinal (30% of the possible points, provided that a higher qualification is not reached),
- the GM, SM and IM results (Section 2 Category XII, GM: 7.5 points, SM: 6 points, IM: 5 points).

 

Please note especially the following points:

- Immediately confirm the receipt of the start list to the TD.

 

- As usual, please wait a few days before sending first moves to make sure that everyone has received the pairings. After having started all your games confirm this to the TD as well. Reflection time begins on the tournament start date.


- In the event of a permanent loss of Email access or other emergency, please send a notice to your TD using a friend's, your job's or a public library's email access for instance, or your TD's above fax number. Please let your TD know immediately of any technical problems, even if you expect to only be down for a day or two.

 

- No result will be recorded until a copy of the game score has been submitted. So please include an accurate game score, in algebraic, preferably PGN notation when reporting results. Invalid scores will be returned for correction, before the result is confirmed.

- For the sending of moves, the ICCF playing template must be used and continuously updated each move, with dates, as shown in the following example:

Event:: WC21TQF2 (etc)  

Start Date: 03/6/2002

White: Andy Anony (DEN) (2500)

Black: Ned Noname (GER) (2475)

 

White leave:  8/10/01 to 14/10/01 (7 days) etc. etc.

Black leave:

                                     White  Black

Rec.   Sent  Total  No.  Move  Move  Rec.   Sent  Total 

...       25/09 00/00  01   5254   5755  25/09 26/09 01/01

26/09 28/09 02/02  02   7163   2836  28/09 30/09 02/03

30/09 04/10 04/06  03   6134   6835  04/10 06/10 02/05

06/10 06/10 00/06  04   5171   7857  06/10 08/10 02/07

etc. etc

 

In the case of dispute, a full copy of the continuous playing template must be provided to the TD or the Appeal Commission. 

 

The recommended method for reporting completed games for publication purposes is as in this "Sample report":-

 

   [Event "WC21TQF2“]                                    <- your tournament number

   [Site "ICCF"]                                                             <- unchanged

   [Date "2002.06.03"]                                        <- start date of the group

   [White "Anony, Andy (ENG)"]                        <- last and first name

   [Black "Noname, Ned (HUN)"]                      <- last and first name

   [Result "1-0"]                                                 <- 1-0 , 0-1 , 1/2-1/2 

   [ECO "A08"]                                                 <- ECO Code - if unsure: [ECO ""]

   [WhiteElo "2500"]                                           <- ELO rating for White

   [BlackElo "2475"]                                           <- ELO rating for Black

   [PlyCount "73"]                                              <- total number of move pairs x 2.

   [EventDate "2002.06.03"]                               <- unchanged

 

1.  e4 d6 2. d4 g6 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. Be2 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nbd7 6. e5 Ng4  7. e6 Ndf6  8.exf7+ Kf8 9. Bf4 Nh6 10. Qd2 Nxf7 11. O-O-O c6 12. h4 Qa5 13. Ng5 b5  14. a3 Bd7 15. h5 Nxg5  16. Bxg5 h6 17. Bxf6 Bxf6 18. hxg6 Kg7 19. Rh5 Kxg6 20. Bd3+ Kf7 21. Qf4 Rag8 22. Rdh1 Ke8 23. Kb1 Bg5 24. Qe4 Qc7 25. d5 Rf8  26. dxc6 Bf5 27.Nxb5 1-0

 

- Your TD will send out a report at the end of each month. This report will contain a text based crosstable and full results. Since email events can move very quickly, he will request status updates more frequently than you may be used to, generally every 2-3 months.

 

- Please answer your TD's requests for information promptly and let him know quickly of any disputes.

 

- Any competitor who does not agree with a decision may send his appeal to the appointed instance for this tournament, the chairman of the Appeals Commission, Gerhard Radosztics. The decision of the Appeals Commission is final.


Please remember the ICCF motto ‘Amici sumus!’, meaning ‘We are friends!’. When all participants keep this mind, we are sure you will enjoy your games. Good luck!
  
Title Tournaments Commissioner:           Tournament Director:                Appeals Commission:

Josef Mrkvicka                                                 Dr. Ian Brooks                          Gerhard Radosztics

titletourn@iccf.com                               ianbrooks@earthlink.net             radoiccf@aon.at

 

 

 

 

 

 

TD: Ian Brooks  <ianbrooks@earthlink.net>

+-------------------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+------+-----+

|ICCF 21st WCh, 3/4-Final                                 1 1 1 1 |      |     |

|WC21TQF2 2002  Tournament # 002      | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 | Tot  | Plc |

+-------------------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+------|-----|

| 450306 Åkesson, Ralf       SVE 2556 | #                         | 0,0  |     |

| 490066 Satici, Aydin       TRK 2372 |   #                       | 0,0  |     |

| 140503 Pankratov, Aleksand RUS 2434 |     #                     | 0,0  |     |

| 070305 João, Névio         BRS 2515 |       #                   | 0,0  |     |

| 180333 Leconte, Jean-Olivi FRA 2488 |         #                 | 0,0  |     |

| 150355 Jœrgensen, Arne Bjœ DEN 2549 |           #               | 0,0  |     |

| 086192 Gutsche, Dieter     GER 2484 |             #             | 0,0  |     |

| 950043 Rákay, Mgr. Kvetosl SLK 2514 |               #           | 0,0  |     |

| 570045 Weber, Jean-Marie   LUX 2573 |                 #         | 0,0  |     |

| 472310 Balabaev, Farid Gas KAZ 2679 |                   #       | 0,0  |     |

| 081217 Hofstetter, Dr. Han GER 2545 |                     #     | 0,0  |     |

| 240176 De Blasio, Massimo  ITA 2555 |                       #   | 0,0  |     |

| 081282 Nickel, Arno        GER 2586 |                         # | 0,0  |     |

+-------------------------------------+---------------------------+------+-----+

Rating Average = 2527          Category = 12              Start date: 03.06.2002

 

Total number of matches: 78, unfinished matches: 78, finished matches: 0

 

Player  1: IM Åkesson, Ralf <Ralf.Akesson@swipnet.se>

Player  2: IM Satici, Aydin <ASATICI@sisecam.com.tr>

Player  3: GM Pankratov, Aleksandr Valerievich <aristocrat29@nm.ru>

Player  4: SM João, Névio <nevio_@uol.com.br>

Player  5: IM Leconte, Jean-Olivier <jol@club-internet.fr>

Player  6: GM Jœrgensen, Arne Bjœrn <ajorgens@sca.csc.com>

Player  7: IM Gutsche, Dieter <Gutsche513@compuserve.de>

Player  8: SM Rákay, Mgr. Kvetoslav <rakay@nextra.sk>

Player  9: SM Weber, Jean-Marie <weber.jean-marie@education.lu>

Player 10:    Balabaev, Farid Gasisovich <balabaev@online.ru>

Player 11: SM Hofstetter, Dr. Hans-Joachim <isi_mattini@t-online.de>

Player 12: GM De Blasio, Massimo <massimo.deblasio@inwind.it>

Player 13: GM Nickel, Arno <edition-marco@t-online.de>

 
*-----------------------------------*-----------------------------------*
|  1 is white against 2,4,6,8,10,12 |  2 is white against 3,5,7,9,11,13 |
|  3 is white against 1,4,6,8,10,12 |  4 is white against 2,5,7,9,11,13 |
|  5 is white against 1,3,6,8,10,12 |  6 is white against 2,4,7,9,11,13 |
|  7 is white against 1,3,5,8,10,12 |  8 is white against 2,4,6,9,11,13 |
|  9 is white against 1,3,5,7,10,12 | 10 is white against 2,4,6,8,11,13 |
| 11 is white against 1,3,5,7, 9,12 | 12 is white against 2,4,6,8,10,13 |
| 13 is white against 1,3,5,7, 9,11 |                                   |
*-----------------------------------*-----------------------------------*

ICCF Playing Rules (for individual tournament games played normally by email)

(approved by the ICCF Congress in Daytona Beach, 2001)

 

1 Play and Control

(a) Games shall be played in accordance with the FIDE Laws of Chess where applicable.

(b) A Tournament Director shall be appointed who shall be responsible for the conduct of the tournament and progress of the games.

(c) Games shall be played by email. If a player should lose email access and is unable, for whatever reason, to re-establish email access within 30 days, he will be considered to have withdrawn from the tournament.

2 Transmissions

(a) Moves shall be numbered and sent

(b) in the numeric or a mutually agreed notation

(c) by email messages

(d) bearing the name and email address of the sender and

(e) a continuous record of all moves and confirmation of the date on which the opponent's latest message was sent.

(f) The sender shall record on the message

(g) the date on which the opponent's latest message was received and

(h) the expected date of the reply.

(i) Failing this, reasonable dates shall be assumed by the recipient and notified with the reply move.

(j) When the expected reply date does not agree with the actual emailing date shown on the message time-stamp, this shall be corrected by the recipient and the sender informed with the reply move.

(k) The time used for the move (see Rule 6c) and accumulated time for the game shall also be recorded.

(l) The normal accepted time of the email transmission is one day. If a longer transmission time is declared, it may be referred to the Tournament Director for a ruling.

3 Failure to Reply

(a) Should there be no reply to any move within 14 days, the full details shall be repeated with copy to the Tournament Director. When replying to such a repeat a copy to the Tournament Director must also be sent.

(b) Games in which no move has been sent for 40 days may be scored as lost to a player who has not advised the Tournament Director about the delay.

4 Moves and Continuations

(a) No legal move shall be retracted after mailing - clerical errors are binding if they are legal moves.

(b) A correct repetition of the latest move is necessary for the sender's reply move to be valid.

(c) Illegible, illegal or ambiguous moves shall be referred back to the sender for immediate correction but without any obligation to move the piece in question.

(d) A message mailed without a reply move shall be treated as an illegible move.

(e) The omission or addition of chess indications (such as "check", "captures", "en passant") is without significance.

(f) Proposals of conditional continuations are binding until the recipient makes a different move from that proposed.

(g) Any accepted continuation move shall be correctly repeated with the reply.

(h) When no reply is made to an accepted conditional continuation it shall be treated as an illegible move.

5 Records and Reports

(a) All transmissions from the opponent concerning the game and a record of the moves and dates shall be kept until the end of the tournament and sent to the Tournament Director upon request.

(b) If a player does not answer enquiries from the Tournament Director, that player may be deemed to have withdrawn from the tournament.

(c) Changes of permanent address shall be notified to the Tournament Director and opponents.

(d) The Tournament Director must be notified immediately of any disagreement between competitors about the game.

(e) The Tournament Director and opponents must be notified immediately if any substantial failure of hardware or software occurs.

6 Time Allowed and Penalties

(a) Each competitor is allowed 60 days for every 10 moves, unless the tournament announcement explicitly specifies otherwise.

(b) Time saved shall be carried forward.

(c) The time used for each move is the difference in days between the date on which the opponent's latest move was received and the mailing date of the reply.

(d) Accepted continuation moves are included in the time taken for the reply move.

(e) A penalty of two days shall be added to the time of a player who sends an illegible, illegal or ambiguous move, or incorrectly repeats the opponent's latest move..

(f) A competitor who has exceeded the time allowed shall forfeit the game.

7 Time Exceeding

(a) Claims that the time limit has been exceeded shall be sent to the Tournament Director with full details at the latest when replying to the 10th, 20th, etc. move.

(b) At the same time, the opponent shall be informed of the claim.

(c) Any protest shall be sent to the Tournament Director within 14 days of receiving the information otherwise the claim shall be deemed to be conceded unless the claim is clearly unfounded.

(d) The Tournament Director shall inform both players of the decision.

(e) If the Tournament Director upholds the claim, then the competitor who has exceeded the time allowed shall forfeit the game.

(f) If the Tournament Director dismisses a claim as being unfounded, he may rule that no further claim by that player during the current time control period shall be accepted.

8 Leave

(a) Each competitor may claim up to a total of 30 days leave during each calendar year.

(b) Players taking leave must inform in advance their opponents and the Tournament Director.

(c) In addition, the Tournament Director may grant up to 30 days' additional leave per annum which in exceptional circumstances may be back-dated and/or extended.

 

 

9 Withdrawal

(a) In the event of withdrawal or death, the Tournament Director shall decide whether all the games shall be annulled or the remaining games adjudicated or scored as losses.

10 Adjudication

(a) If no result has been agreed by the date set for close of play, both competitors shall submit to the Tournament Director within 30 days, a record of the moves played

(b) the position reached and

(c) a statement claiming either a win or a draw which may be supported by analysis.

(d) Competitors not wishing to submit analysis forfeit the right to appeal.

(e) The Tournament Director shall notify the adjudicator's decision to both competitors indicating whether or not it is subject to appeal.

11 Adjudication Appeals

(a) Any appeal against the adjudicator's decision must be posted to the Tournament Director within 14 days of receiving the notification,

(b) whereupon the Tournament Director shall obtain a ruling from another adjudicator and notify the result to both competitors. The ruling is final and no further appeal shall be accepted from either player.

(c) For an appeal, additional analysis may be submitted by both players.

12 Reporting Results

(a) As soon as possible after ending a game, the result and a clear record of the moves played shall be sent by email to the Tournament Director by both players, preferably in PGN format.

(b) The result is officially recorded only after receipt of this record.

(c) Should no record be received from either player, the result may be scored as lost by both.

13 Decisions and Appeals

(a) The Tournament Director may penalise or disqualify competitors who break these rules and

(b) any matter not covered in them shall be decided by the Tournament Director according to the principles stated in the Preface of the FIDE Laws of Chess.

(c) Any competitor may appeal within 14 days of receiving a decision of the Tournament Director to the chairman of the ICCF Appeals Commission, whose ruling shall be final.