Welsh Correspondence Chess Federation

Welsh Victory in EU Team Cup Quarterfinal vs Sweden

Russell Sherwood Tuesday, August 4, 2020

....with a draw in the 35th game to finish, Adam Davies pushes the Welsh team over the line with five games to spare!

https://www.iccf.com/event?id=83769

Euro Teamp Cup

Congress Proposal Voting

Austin Lockwood Thursday, July 30, 2020

The voting for the ICCF "Virtual Congress" proposals 2020 has now completed and the results shown below.

Online voting was a real success this year, with 85% of possible votes having been cast by national delegates. Some proposals recieved as many as 50 votes out of a possible 56, this is probably a record for an ICCF Congress!

For the first time, all votes were cast by the official delegate for each federation, with no need for any proxy allocations.

ICCF officials will now start the work of implementing the successful proposals, in most cases starting from 1st January 2021.

	Proposal	+	-	Result
2020-001	Approve Services Committee Budget for 2021	47	0	Passed
2020-002	Optional Preferential Voting (OPV) for Election of Officials	32	12	Passed (2/3 majority)
2020-003	Approve the 2019 Minutes	50	0	Passed
2020-004	Approve Financial Reports	47	1	Passed
2020-005	Players' Record Keeping Requirement	40	9	Passed
2020-006	Players' Requirement to Update Personal Address	48	0	Passed
2020-007	Counting FIDE GMs	41	7	Superceded by 2020-008
2020-008	Eliminate Requirement of "5 GM" Opponents for GM Title	37	11	Passed
2020-009	Making the Triple Block Time Control System an Official Option	41	7	Passed
2020-010	Clarifying a Requirement for a Title Tournament	41	6	Passed
2020-011	Congress Allowances for ICCF Auditor	26	20	Passed
2020-012	Limiting the 10-Move Draw Rule	39	8	Passed
2020-013	Lowering Entry Fees	50	0	Passed
2020-014	2020 and Onwards - CCE and CCM Medals	19	27	Defeated
2020-016	Add a Second Payment Processor to the Server Entry Process	46	3	Passed
2020-017	Validity of “Half Qualifications” for WCCC	41	7	Passed
2020-018	Assumed Ratings	42	5	Passed
2020-019	New Tournament Format	42	6	Passed
2020-020	Special Provisions for the 70th ICCF Jubilee Events	31	17	Passed
2020-023	Clarifying Rules about Resetting Clocks after Extended Period of Down Server	48	1	Passed
2020-024	Establish “Regional” Tournaments	31	15	Passed
2020-025	Norm Tournaments: Switching of an Entry When the Player's Rating Changes	49	0	Passed
2020-027	Updates to the ICCF Voting Regulations and Electoral Procedures [2/3 VOTE]	35	10	Passed (2/3 majority)
2020-028	Electronic Awards	20	28	Defeated
2020-029	Allowing FIDE GMs to Play Free in ICCF GMN Events	38	7	Passed
2020-030	New Title: International Organizer (IO) and its Scales TO Level 1 and TO Level 2	18	27	Defeated
2020-031	Allowing TCs to Make TC-initiated Substitutions Directly	38	10	Passed
2020-032	ICCF Congress 2021-Clydebank Glasgow	47	1	Passed
2020-033	Title Norms in Chess 960	15	33	Defeated
2020-034	Limitations to the Number of Open Tournaments Organised by MFs	40	6	Passed
2020-035	Final "B" in Different Rounds of the Tournament	18	30	Defeated
2020-036	New Tournament: World Team Cup	39	8	Passed
2020-037	Friendly Matches Viewing Rules	15	29	Defeated

ICCF Congress

WCCF 2019 Christmas Special

Austin Lockwood Saturday, July 25, 2020

Well played Rhys Jones for winning the recently completed 2019 Christmas Special with an impressive score of 5.5/6!

https://www.iccf.com/event?id=83366

WCCF Christmas Special

3rd Chess 960 European Team Cup

Russell Sherwood Thursday, July 23, 2020

ICCF-Europa invites all its member federations to enter a team to a new team tournament to be played on the ICCF webserver. Each member federation may enter one team of 4 players (and a team captain).

The tournament is likely to be organized in

one or two stages

(it depends on the number of entries). Pairings will use a Double Round Robin system whereby players play 2 games with alternate colours against each opponent (both games against the same opponent will start with the same randomized position of the pieces but these will vary against other opponents). Time control is

30 days for 10 moves

and the games will be

rated in ICCF Chess 960 rating system

. Members of the first three teams in the final will be awarded medals and certificates.

Start date
The tournament will start on 15th of September 2020.

There is no entry fee for this tournament.

The first Cup attracted 9 teams, the second Cup was played with 12 teams. I invite all national federations to join this tournament and let players enjoy play at chess 960.

If you are interested in being part of the Welsh team please get in touch by 23/8/2020

960Euro Team Champs

CCE Title for Andrew Smith

Russell Sherwood Sunday, July 19, 2020

Fast on the heels of his previous norm Andrew has completed another Norm and gained the CCE Title in WS/CCE/A/4

Andre becomes our 18th CCE titleholder

Andrew SmithCCE Title

Wales - Brazil Friendly underway

Russell Sherwood Sunday, July 19, 2020

The friendly match is underway on 29 boards WLS - BRA 2020

CCE Norm for Andrew Smith

Russell Sherwood Friday, July 17, 2020

Congratulations to Andrew Smith in picking up a CCM Norm in the George D. Pyrich Memorial Team Tournament SF1 Board 3

This is Andrew's second CCE Norm but more games will be required to complete the title.

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Friendly Match vs Aruba

Austin Lockwood Monday, July 6, 2020

Wales have just started a new friendly match vs some new players from Aruba

https://www.iccf.com/event?id=87149

We are hoping that this will be a great introduction to CC for our new Aruban friends, and that eventually they will consider starting a new national CC federation and applying for membership of ICCF.

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CCE Norm for Peter Bevan

Russell Sherwood Sunday, June 28, 2020

Congratulations to Peter Bevan in picking up a 2nd CCE Norm in George D. Pyrich Memorial Team Tournament SF1

To complete the Title a third norm will be required.

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Quote of the Day

After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived.
Edmar Mednis