I find the promotion of ICCF inappropriate and undesirable as ICCF causes decadence in modern postal/email/online chess refusing to assume right stance to external assistance in competitive one to one games.
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Dear Polar_Bear. Quite a few people found your attacks on ICCF inappropriate and undesirable. If you do not agree how the game is played right now on ICCF than do not play it. However, just refusing the change will not make it disappear. There are a lot of different games with different rules. Why you could not simply acknowledge, that this is a different game with different rules and let people who like it to play according those rules?
Jun 7, 2014
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Dear ZheKa. Not playing on ICCF is exactly what I do. I don't denounce consultational/assisted correspondence chess per se, I insist only such chess must not be confused with one to one competition and consulting artificial players (computers) must not be regarded as mere using tools. It makes sense and goes without saying. Unfortunately ICCF ignores the whole issue and fails to assume clear stance, i.e.:
a) approve computers in rules and declare games as team-based (and thus of course without titles, norms, etc)
b) ban external assistance and strictly punish violators as cheaters
c) make both, but keep it strictly apart.
ICCF deserves full criticism for not adressing the issue.
I think for ICCF players (or those who would like to become ICCF members) it is time to get organized. Especially, when first world championship among servers is on the way: http://www.chess-server.net/uploads/wccstc/index.html.
It was not surprise to me that chess.com declined invitation to the tournament, but I know that there are many players here who are interested and would like to participate in the future. For that purpose I created a new group: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/iccf-players.