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World Correspondence Chess Championship


  • 14 months ago · Quote · #1

    Polar_Bear

    We all know ICCF lost all credibility around all real chessplayers more than 15 years ago, because it keeps silent on the computer cheating issue. Yet still ICCF organizes its self-styled championships, awards computer monkeys with titles and FIDE recognizes them by inertia, which i find quite irritating.

    I got the idea. Let's leave ICCF codgers alone with their casual computerized chess and organize true Correspondence Chess Championship here at Chess.com.

    Winner will get designed trophy and Wiki-page, where he will be mentioned as world champion next in line after the last computer-free champion Tõnu Õim.

    Additional details:

    Players must play with real names in their profiles.

    Only players with >100 properly finished* rated games with >1 year membership can participate.

    *Abandoned games don't count. The issue can be participation of online players from other sites, e.g. RedHotPawn. IMO the 100 games + year membership rule may include also any other online chess site banning cheaters. Thus ICCF-web and FICGS aren't trustworthy sites.

    Qualification groups will be independent tournaments.

    Players will be checked for cheating before tournament starts and during. Tournament committee will have the power to decide who cheated and forfeit their games itself instead of Chess.com bot, including fixing finished games results.

  • 12 months ago · Quote · #2

    Polar_Bear

    You can register:

    Preliminaries Group A

    Preliminaries Group B

    Preliminaries Group C

    Only serious correspondence players please. This is not fun tournament for casual players.

  • 10 months ago · Quote · #3

    Polar_Bear

    Groups B and C are still awaiting for more participants!

    You can't register in more groups than in one.

    All groups will start at once.

  • 9 months ago · Quote · #5

    echecs06

    You may have a point, but why shouldn't we try to give it a chance?


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