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- ======= Official Information from the International
- I C C F Correspondence Chess Federation
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- AMICI SUMUS VERSION 1.00 * 1 January 1996
- * We are friends! * ---------------------------------------------------
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- 1) Play and Control
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- A) Games shall be played in accordance with the FIDE Laws of Chess where
- applicable.
- B) A Tournament Controller shall be appointed who shall be responsible for
- the conduct of the tournament and progress of the games.
- C) By entering an email match or tournament, the player makes a commitment
- to maintain email access for the duration of the tournament. If a player
- should lose email access and is unable - for whatever reason - to
- re-establish email access within 30 days, he will be considered having
- withdrawn from the tournament.
-
- 2) Transmissions
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- A) Moves shall be numbered and
- B) sent by email messages using an official form
- C) in the international numeric or a mutually agreed notation
- D) as plain ASCII messages
- E) bearing the complete name and email address of the sender and
- F) a progressive transmission of the entire gamescore and confirmation
- of the date on which the opponent's latest message was sent (the
- "mailing date")
- G) The sender shall record on the message
- H) the date on which the message was received, and
- I) the anticipated date of the reply.
- J) Failing this, reasonable dates shall be assumed by the recipient and
- notified with the reply move.
- K) When the anticipated date does not agree with the actual mailing date,
- this shall be corrected by the recipient and the sender informed with
- the reply move.
- L) The normal accepted time of the email transmission is one day. If a
- longer transmission time is declared, it may be referred to the
- Controller for a ruling. The time used for the move [cf para 6D] and
- accumulated time for the game shall also be recorded.
-
- 3) Failure to Reply
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- A) A player who wishes to take more than 12 days for a move must send
- a notice to his opponent, with carbon copy to the Controller. If not,
- his time is doubled from the 12th day.
- B) Should there be no reply to any move (or notice as per 3 A or about
- leave) within 14 days, the full details shall be repeated with carbon
- copy to the Controller.
- C) If no reply is received after a further 14 days, the player shall
- inform the Controller without delay, and wait for his decision.
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- 4) Moves and Continuations
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- A) No legal move shall be retracted after posting - clerical errors are
- binding if they are legal moves. The correct repetition of the opponent's
- latest move is necessary for the sender's own move to be valid.
- B) Illegible or illegal moves shall be referred back to the sender for
- immediate correction but without any obligation to move the piece in
- question.
- C) A message posted without a move shall be treated as an illegible move.
- D) The omission or addition of chess indications (such as "check",
- "captures", "en passant") is without significance.
- E) Proposals of conditional continuations are binding until the recipient
- makes a different move from that proposed.
- F) Any accepted continuation move shall be correctly repeated with the
- reply.
- G) When no reply is made to an accepted conditional continuation it shall
- be treated as an illegible move.
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- 5) Records and Reports
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- A) All the transmissions in their original form from the opponent concerning
- the game and a record of the moves and dates shall be kept until the end
- of the tournament and sent to the Controller upon request.
- B) If a player does not answer enquiries from the Controller, that player
- may be deemed to have withdrawn from the tournament.
- C) Changes of permanent postal and/or email address must be notified to
- the Controller and opponents.
- D) The Controller must be notified immediately of any disagreement between
- competitors about the game.
- E) A player must notify the Controller by the fastest available means
- (Phone, telegram, fax, etc.) of any substantial period of hardware or
- software failure which affects the receipt and/or transmission of the
- moves.
-
- 6) Time Allowed and Penalties
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- A) Each competitor is allowed 40 days for every 10 moves.
- B) The time limit may be exceeded once.
- C) Time saved shall be carried forward.
- D) The time used for each move is the difference in days between the date
- of reception of the opponent's latest move and the mailing date
- of the reply.
- E) Time is not counted for accepted "if" (conditional) moves.
- F) A penalty of five days shall be added to the time of a player who
- sends an illegible or illegal move, or incorrectly repeats the opponent's
- latest move.
- G) If the Controller dismisses a claim as being unfounded, he may impose a
- penalty.
- H) Games in which no move has been sent for 42 days and neither player has
- made a claim according to para. 3C may be scored as 0-0.
-
- 7) Time Exceeding
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- A) Claims that the time limit has been exceeded shall be sent to the
- Controller with full details.
- B) At the same time, the opponent shall be informed by a message with
- carbon copy to the Controller.
- C) Any protest shall be sent to the Controller within 14 days of recei-
- ving the message, or the claim will be deemed to be conceded.
- D) The Controller shall inform both players of the decision. If the Con-
- troller upholds a first claim, a new count of the opponent's time shall
- begin on the date the message about the claim was sent.
- E) A competitor who has exceeded the time allowed for the second time
- shall forfeit the game.
- F) If the Controller dismisses a claim as being unfounded, he may impose a
- penalty.
-
- 8) Leave
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- A) Each competitor may claim up to a total of 30 days leave during each
- calendar year.
- B) Players taking leave must inform their opponents and the Controller
- in advance.
- C) In addition, the Controller may grant up to 30 days additional leave
- per annum which in exceptional circumstances may be back-dated.
-
- 9) Withdrawal
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- In the event of withdrawal or death, the Controller shall decide whether
- all the games shall be annulled or the remaining games adjudicated or
- scored as losses.
-
- 10) Adjudication
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- A) If no result has been agreed by the date set for close of play, both
- competitors shall submit to the Controller within 30 days, a record of
- the moves played, preferrably in PGN (Portable Game Notation), or in
- ChessBase format, or in plain ASCII.
- B) a statement claiming either a win or a draw which may be supported
- by analysis, submitted preferrably in PGN or ChessBase format.
- C) Competitors not wishing to submit analysis forfeit the right to appeal.
- D) The Controller shall notify the adjudicator's decision to both compe-
- titors indicating whether or not it is subject to appeal.
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- 11) Adjudication Appeals
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- A) Any appeal against the adjudicator's decision must be mailed to the
- Controller within eight days of receiving the notification,
- B) whereupon the Controller shall obtain a final ruling from another
- adjudicator and notify the result to both competitors.
- C) Additional analysis may be submitted with an appeal.
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- 12) Reporting Results
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- A) As soon as possible after ending a game, a clear record of the moves
- played shall be sent to the Controller by both players, preferrably in
- PGN format.
- B) The result is officially recorded only after receipt of this record.
- C) Should no record be received from either player, the result may be
- scored as lost by both.
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- 13) Decisions and Appeals
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- A) The Controller may penalise or disqualify competitors who break these
- rules and
- B) any matter not covered in them shall be decided by the Controller.
- C) Any competitor may appeal within 14 days of receiving a decision of
- the Controller to the appointed Arbiter (or, if no Arbiter is appointed,
- the Director of the Tournament Office concerned) whose ruling shall be
- final.
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- * ICCF * INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE CHESS FEDERATION * ICCF *
- World Tournament Office (Email Tournaments)
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- General Secretary: GM Juan S.Morgado juan.morgado@alvarez.satlink.net
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- "... The International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF) is the worldwide
- organisation for correspondence chess (which is a game of chess in which moves
- are delivered by post or any other form of transmission). The aims of ICCF are
- to organise, develop and promote the study and practice of international corr-
- espondence chess throughout the world."
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- * AMICI SUMUS - We are friends! *
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