Welsh Correspondence Chess Federation

Austin Lockwood  Saturday, May 31, 2025

The attached document is a proposed new wording for the WCCF Constitution. The immediate adoption of this constitution will be put to a vote of WCCF Premium members at the Annual General Meeting, to be held on Saturday 12th July.  The proposed document has the unanimous support of the Executive Committee.

All Premium members are invited to study the document and to submit any feedback for the Executive Committee to [email protected]

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Austin Lockwood  Wednesday, May 28, 2025

The 2025 Annual General Meeting of the Welsh Correspondence Chess Federation will be held on Saturday 12th July 2025 at 10:00am.

The meeting will be held remotely over Zoom.

There will be elections for the positions of:

• President
• Secretary
• International Secretary
• Delegate to ICCF
• Treasurer

Nominations for each of these positions should be sent to the Secretary no later than Friday 27th June 2025, all nominees must be current Premium Members of the WCCF.  The final list of eligible candidates will be published on the WCCF website on Saturday 28th June.

Motions for the AGM may be submitted to the Secretary by Premium Members no later than Friday 27th June 2025. The agenda for the meeting will be posted on the WCCF website on Saturday 28th June, no further agenda items will be possible after this date, and no "other business" will be discussed at the meeting.

Members wishing to attend the meeting must give notice to the Secretary no later than Friday 11th July, the link to join the Zoom meeting and the password will be distributed privately to registered participants no less that 24 hours before the meeting, the link will not be publicly advertised.

Only Premium and Welsh Honorary Members may speak or vote at the meeting, National and International members may join as observers.

Premium Members not able to attend the meeting may submit their votes for the election of officials and other agenda items no later than Thursday 10th July by email to the Secretary.

Austin Lockwood  Thursday, May 1, 2025

• Marc Wakeham was the only nomination for the position of WCCF treasurer and so has now been appointed with no election necessary.
• We have been informed by the Welsh Chess Union that their representative to WCCF Executive Committee is now Mark Adams.
• The Executive Committee has co-opted John Claridge

The full Executive Committee is now:

​Officials

• President: Paul Scott
• Secretary: Austin Lockwood
• International Secretary/Delegate to ICCF: Austin Lockwood
• Treasurer: Marc Wakeham

Co-opted EC members

• Webmaster: Austin Lockwood
• Friendly Match Organiser: Paul Scott
• Delegate to Tri-Nations British Championship Group: Austin Lockwood
• Co-opted Member: John Claridge

Welsh Chess Union Representative

• Mark Adams

Austin Lockwood  Thursday, April 24, 2025

Marc Wakeham becomes our latest International Master following his third and final norm.

The title is pending confirmation by the ICCF Qualifications Commissioner.

Congratulations Marc!

Austin Lockwood  Saturday, April 12, 2025

A vacancy has arisen for the position of WCCF Treasurer.

This would involve processing membership subscriptions, accepting tournament entry payments, making payments (the most significant being the annual invoice to ICCF), and reporting to the AGM.

Nominees must be premium members of the WCCF.

Nominations should be sent to the WCCF Secretary [email protected] by 30th April at the latest.

Austin Lockwood  Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Wales will enter this team event for players rated under 2,300 - further details are here:

https://www.iccf.com/message?message=1737

The team will consist of six players.  If your rating is under 2300 and you wish to represent Wales in this event, please contact Paul Scott, our team captain, on [email protected]

UPDATE 09/04: We have now completed the Welsh team, good luck to:

Updated Saturday, April 5, 2025 by Austin Lockwood

Austin Lockwood  Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Unfortunately, due to a lack of administrational support, the Counties and Districts Correspondence Chess Championship will be discontinued following the completion of the 2024 Season.

This event has run continuously for over one hundred years, since 1922.

Austin Lockwood  Friday, March 14, 2025

The Welsh Correspondence Chess Federation has been invited to enter a team in "The Caribbean Battle Invitational Team Tournament".  We need six players in the following rating ranges:

• Board 1 – 2450 or higher
• Board 2 – 2400 - 2449
• Board 3 – 2350 - 2399
• Board 4 – 2300 - 2349
• Board 5 – 2250 - 2299
• Board 6 – 2200 - 2249

*Please note that ratings are for 2025/2 which is valid from 1st April, not your current rating from 2025/1 - I have just updated the membership list on our website to show 2025/2 ratings.

Please see attachment for further details of this event.

If you would like to represent Wales in this tournament, please email [email protected] before the end of March, the first reply in each rating bracket will secure the board.

If we can't fill some of the boards with Welsh players, I will invite friends from elsewhere, possibly from our international membership.

UPDATE 21/03: We have now filled boards all the boards:

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Austin Lockwood  Friday, March 7, 2025

Congratulations to Josh for earning their first IM norm in the British Championship 2023/25.

Josh also looks like having an excellent chance of eventually winning the British CC title!

Austin Lockwood  Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Wales will enter a team for the Second World Team Cup:

https://www.iccf.com/message?message=1732

The team will consist of twenty players, the matches are similar to friendly matches, so you would only play two games.

All players will be considered for selection, regardless of rating, however priority for places in the team will be given to WCCF Premium members.  If you wish to participate, please contact our team captain, Paul Scott on [email protected]