Welsh Correspondence Chess Federation

ICCF Congress 2021 Voting Summary

Russell Sherwood Saturday, September 4, 2021

Results of the voting at the ICCF Congress.......

Proposal	Title	For	Against	Abstain
001	ICCF Congress 2022	49	0	8
002	Approve Services Committee Budget for 2022	45	0	12
003	Approve the 2020 Minutes	43	0	14
004	Application for new ICCF Member Federation – Philippines	46	0	9
005	Withdrawn
006	Accumulative GM Norm Feature	16	24	17
007	Show the Best of all Titles	6	36	15
008	Extend the Possibility of Obtaining Title Norms	15	25	17
009	Remove the Possibility for Players who Achieved Places 1-3 in a National CC championship to Play in MN/B Tournaments	43	2	12
010	Ensuring All Players Have the Same Initial Amount of Reflection Time	27	16	14
011	A Plus-Score Requirement for Promotion in ICCF Events	33	10	14
012	Limit of One Team Board per Player -- Except in Friendly Matches	42	3	12
013	Already Registered Player Cannot Serve as Substitute/Replacement	41	4	12
014	Eliminated Player Cannot Re-Enter Event on another Team	42	3	12
015	Players can Never Serve as a Substitute/Replacement for Themselves	41	2	14
016	Players who Have Already Served on a Team Cannot Serve as Player Again	39	5	13
017	Only One Team Captain at a Time	40	3	14
018	Making Accepted Withdrawal Procedures More Player-Friendly	39	5	13
019	Notification of "Dead Man's Defense" (DMD) Claim to Opponent	36	8	13
020	Update to the ICCF Privacy Policy (GDPR Requirement)	38	3	16
021	Clarification on the Report of Results in Postal Tournaments	31	5	21
022	Logging and Auditing Insights into Games in Progress	23	15	19
023	Expanding the Team Definition for Friendly Matches	35	8	14
024	Minimum Number of Different Players to Form a Team	40	5	12
025	Reduction of Tournament Fees for 2022	46	0	11
026	New Structure of Postal Promotional Tournaments	28	7	22
027	Including Anticipated Member Federations in Friendly Matches	39	6	12
028	Recommendation to Congress - Venezuela to be Dismissed from ICCF	37	1	19
029	Withdrawn
030	Application for New ICCF Member Federation – Aruba	43	0	14
031	[Conflicts with Proposal 2021-033] - Alteration to Appendix 1: Working Rules of the Rating System	13	23	31
032	Amend the Rules for World Cup Tournaments	34	5	18
033	[Conflicts with Proposal 2021-031] - Develop a Bespoke Rating System for ICCF	37	5	15
034	Risk Management - Webserver Open Tournaments	39	5	13
035	Tie-Breaking Update	41	2	14
036	A Player Who Does Not Make any Moves Should be Declared "Inactive"	14	30	13
037	Allow Friendly Matches to Have Regional Teams and Isolated Players	30	9	18
038	Friendly Matches Viewing Rules	27	14	16
039	Unbalanced Openings Trial Events	34	7	16
040	*2/3 Vote Required * Optional Preferential Voting (OPV) for Election of Officials	29	5	23

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British Correspondence Chess Championships 2021-2023

Russell Sherwood Sunday, August 22, 2021

The closing date for the BCCC is fast approaching, at the end of the month.

Current Entries are as below:

England

Ackley, Peter J. E. Bailey, Matthew W. Beckett, Phillip J. Brookes, John G. Brotherton, Trevor S. Bruce, Robert Cole, Steve Coleman, Peter L. Cowan, Alastair Ellis, Les Gardner, Allan Girling, Clive F. Gosling, Brian G. E. Graham, Oliver Grobler, David J. Grummitt, William Herman, Tom Kent, Chris Kitson, Keith Lockett, John Maguire, Gary Mahony, Jon D. Marchant, Arnold Raby, Eugene Rawlings, Alan J. C. Reed, Arthur F. Roberts, Anthony Arthur Ruffle, Alan Sutton, Alan B. Ward, Richard Webster, Richard Wood, Ben A. Wright, Ashley

Scotland

Beveridge, Colin Buchan, Allan Burridge, Raymond John Dunn, John Robinson, Andrew Whittaker, Ian P.

Wales

Bishop, William Bowley, Michael Dutfield, Owain Gunn, Tom Jenkins, Gerald Jones, Gareth Jones, Rhys Lumley, Bill F. Perrin, Richard David Robinson, Josh Sherwood, Alexander Sherwood, Helen Sherwood, Russell Wakeham, Marc R.

If you believe you have entered and are not on the list above please contact the Tournament Organiser, Russell Sherwood , [email protected] ASAP.

There is still time to enter if you have not already. If you wish to do so then this can be done by either your National Federation or directly to the WCCF at Online Payment (welshccf.org.uk), quoting your name and ICCF ID with your payment of £12.

Event Details can be found here: British Correspondence Chess Championship (welshccf.org.uk)

Russell Sherwood

TO British Correspondence Chess Championship 2021-2023

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CCM Norm for Alex Bullen

Russell Sherwood Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Congratulations to Alex Bullen in collecting his first CCM Norm in States and Regions CCC 2021 Division Three Board 1

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ICCF Congress 2021 Proposals

Austin Lockwood Saturday, August 7, 2021

Between 15th and 28th August ICCF member federations (including WCCF) will be voting on several proposals to be included in the ICCF rules and procedures from 2022; these are listed here:

https://www.iccf.com/Proposals.aspx?id=74

All premium members of WCCF are entitled to make a contribution towards the Welsh vote; if you are a premium member and would like to participate in our internal voting process, please let me know ([email protected]).

Before deciding how to vote, you may be interested in reading the online comments and discussions under each proposal. You may also be interested in following the virtual debate on each of the proposals, which will be streamed live here on Saturday 21st August 2021 at 13:00.

Austin Lockwood

WCCF Secretary

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