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- Revision: October 28, 1996
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- International Email Chess Club
-
- To become a registered member of IECC,
- please write to Lisa Powell <drpowell@uoguelph.ca>
-
- 1. First Name and Last Name
- 2. Internet address <----- if more than one, prioritize!
- 3. Country
- 4. Current or past rating, and from what chess organization.
- ---[NOT the same categories used in IECC Class Events]
- Category 1 - Senior Master 2400+
- Category 2 - Master 2200-2399
- Category 3 - Expert 2000-2199
- Category 4 - Class A 1800-1999
- Category 5 - Class B 1600-1799
- Category 6 - Class C 1400-1599
- Category 7 - Class D 1200-1399
- Category 8 - Class E 1000-1199
- Category 9 - Class F up to 999
-
- 5. Activities you elect to participate in.
-
- 6. If you have previously played with a chess-via-email
- organization, please submit a copy of the moves record
- of a game you have played via email.
-
- If it does not conform to specifications as stated
- in IECC Guidelines, you must join our brief New Member Program.
-
- 7. Do you have access to Usenet's rec.games.chess.play-by-email
- newsgroup?
-
- Please note: IECC membership is your best guarantee of
- the continuing existence of free chess-via-email!
-
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-
- Free game, match and tournament activities:
-
- However...
- New staff members are welcome to share the workload
- that keeps IECC going with organized free chess-via-email!!!
-
- Please write to: CEO Lisa Powell <drpowell@uoguelph.ca>
-
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-
- 1. Two-game rated matches.
- TD Unes Hassim uhassim@interlog.com
- Asst TD Gordon Lee glee@adept.co.uk
- Asst TD Jan Bouma janbouma@fris.nl
-
- 2. Mini two-game rated match tournaments of 3 players.
- TD Michael Thayer mthayer@ix.netcom.com
-
- 3. Pyramid Ladder Challenge competition
- [eligibility-to-challenge independent of rating,
- but games are rated.
- [Rules of Pyramid Ladder Challenge on request.]
- TD Robert Francis
-
- 4. Knock-Out Chess tournaments [KO Tmt 1, etc]
- [Please note: you must have played at least one
- rated IECC game before you can register for this event.]
- Round 1: Eight players are paired in two-game matches.
- Round 2: Four survivors are paired in two-game matches.
- Round 3: Last two survivors paired in two-game matches.
- 1. KO tournaments are open tournaments.
- 2. Games are rated.
- 3. If a match is drawn, the lower-rated player advances.
-
- TD Markus Mock mock@pobox.com
- Asst TD Don Camper kingpawn@megalinx.net
-
- 5. IECC Category Rating Tournaments
- Category 1 - Master 2200+
- Category 2 - Expert 2000-2199
- Category 3 - Class A 1800-1999
- Category 4 - Class B 1600-1799
- Category 5 - Class C 1400-1599
- Category 6 - Class D 1200-1399
- Category 7 - Class E up to 1199
-
- Class Tournaments : 7,5 players . single round robin
-
- If there is only one section in a rating group, that winner
- is the class champion. If we have more than one section going,
- a two-game match playoff of the section winners to determines
- the class champion.
-
- Class winners have the right of playing in the next higher
- class the following year, regardless of whether their rating
- may have slipped by the time of the next year's tournaments.
-
- The winner of Class 1 will be proclaimed IECC Club Champion.
- TD Bruce Dudley lawr601@relay1.it.net
- Asst TD Earl Cravens brandy.cravens@svis.org
-
- 6. Thematic Match Trios
- Each player plays two rated games with both opponents.
- All games will be rated as usual.
- All Thematic Trios are open events.
- TD Unes Hassim uhassim@interlog.com
- Asst TD Joseph Wenger YOSHELW@worldnet.att.net
-
- 7. 12-player, 4-round Swiss tournaments in three rating groups:
- TD John Fernandez IAmSumo@aol.com
-
- 8. IECC Chess Academy
- TD Toshi Takeuchi takeuchi@cgl.ucsf.edu
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- IECC Academy
-
- Rules:
- 1. Each player in an Academy two-game match plays two unrated
- games with an assigned opponent. Any opening.
-
- 2. Academy matches will be designated AM-1, AM-2, etc.
- Academy TD will be Toshi Takeuchi.
-
- 3. Instead of ratings for Academy matches, each player will be
- given a bonus of five [5] ratings after each Academy game,
- subject to the following conditions....
-
- 3a: In each game either player determines the first critical
- point. This involves positional judgement, such as
- 3a1: Plus, minus or even material;
- 3a2: Appraisal of the position: favorable, unfavorable, even;
- 3a3: Assessment of the strategical aspect of a game; understand
- the position, and be aware of all threats.
- 3a4: Assessment of tactical combinations, such as: annihilation of
- defence; decoying; discovered attack; opening a file; xray attack;
- blockade; demolition of pawn structure, etc.
-
- Please note! We are talking about the FIRST critical point, not
- complete analysis of the entire game.
-
- 4. If a game is judged hopeless, then we suggest that both sides
- should quit that game; analyze the game; and start a new one.
- The idea is to think about what went wrong -- to play games to
- learn and have fun. There is no reason to impose stress on
- winners or losers.
-
- In IECC Chess Academy, both players benefit!
-
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-
- 9. New Member program to instruct registered IECC members
- new to chess-via-email.
- VP Chuck Smith <csmith@fishnet.net>
- Asst VP Kyle Evans
-
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-
- 10. IECC Chess Basics, program for novices:
- VP Heiner Theofel theofel@mpa.uni-stuttgart.de
-
- IECC Chess Basics
-
- With a regularly-transmitted letter to the participants (via mailing
- list) we will:
- - learn how to open a game
- - discuss combinations/mating positions
- - analyse participants' games and questions, etc.,
- ... but everything not to complicated, just the 'basics'.
-
- Also a game "CB-participants vs. VP CB" is foreseen, during which
- general annotations will be given.
-
- All Category 9 players (rating <up to 1000) are invited to
- participate in the program, but also players
- from the bottom of Category 8 can join.
-
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-
- Please note: IECC membership is your best guarantee of
- the continuing existence of free chess-via-email!
-
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-
- You can get the latest IECC news updates including games,
- tournaments, and bulletins from:
-
- 1- news group rec.games.chess.play-by-email
-
- 2- ftp site at ftp://ftp.pitt.edu/group/chess/ORGS
- (look for iecc* files; then names are self explanatory)
- and //ftp.pitt.edu/group/chess/Collections/PGN
- (look for iecc* files in pgn format)
- or //ftp.pitt.edu/group/chess/Collections/CA
- (look for iecc* files in Chess Assistant format)
- and //ftp.pitt.edu/group/chess/Collections/CB
- (look for iecc* files in Chess Base format)
-
- or http://www.pitt.edu/~schach and mouse on FTP Site,
- then on Chess News.
- IECC files all begin with the text 'iecc'.
-
- 3- World Wide Web page at:
- http://kerouac.pharm.uky.edu/rgbIECC/IECC.html
- or using Netscape 2.0:
- http://kerouac.pharm.uky.edu/buice/rgbuice.html
-
- 4- email access to ftp site or WWW site
- (see newsletter Vol.2, No. 18)
- -- or request IECC Bulletin 44 from
- Lisa Powell <drpowell@uoguelph.ca>
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