The following Announcement was posted at the ICCF webserver on 28 February. * Please note that those members who wish to enter via the CCCA (your NF), the entrance fee per section will be $17.
---- Ralph P. Marconi, CCCA International Events Secretary

5th ICCF Webchess Open Tournament

Tuesday, February 28, 2012: ICCF is delighted to announce the start of the 5th WebChess Open tournament on the server. This announcement will be posted at the ICCF website and distributed to all national federations. The following Frequently Asked Questions clarifies all information applicable for this edition.

Dear Friends, ICCF is delighted to announce the start of the 5th WebChess Open tournament on the server. This announcement is posted on the ICCF website and distributed to all national federations. The following Frequently Asked Questions clarifies all information applicable for this edition.

1. What is the Webchess Open Tournament?
It is a tournament open to all correspondence chess players around the World, with or without any previous ICCF experience.

2. Who is in charge?
Frank Geider (FRA), World Tournament Director (WTD) has appointed Andrew Dearnley (ENG), ICCF Non-Title Tournaments Commissioner (NTTC) as the responsible ICCF Officer for this tournament. Please direct all general inquiries to him at: andrewdearnley@yahoo.co.uk Guido Bresadola (ITA) has been appointed Central Tournament Leader (CTL). He is in charge of registration, pairings and other tournament related issues. His email address is: guido.bresadola@tiscali.it

3. How and when to enter?
Multiple entries are allowed. Go to the ICCF Webserver main page www.iccf-webchess.com click on “New Events”, find the tournament in the main list and click “Enter”. It allows you to register with a click of a button using one of the three methods available: a) Contact your national federation (NF). Provide your ICCF-ID (if you have one) and a valid email address you will use for this tournament. Your national federation will forward your entry to CTL Guido Bresadola (ITA). b) Qualified players may use Direct Entry (DE). This method is available for new players to ICCF: c) New players to ICCF are allowed to enter 1 section for free. They should send their contact information: name, email address and country to Andrew Dearnley NTTC. If they wish to enter more than one section, all extra entries should be paid for as described above.

4. When does the registration close?
Registration is open immediately and it closes on April 30th, 2012.

* 5. How much does it cost?
The payment is linked to the method of registration used: a) Registering via your NF. Receiving payment of the event fee and confirmation of your registration are handled by your NF. b) Registering via Direct Entry. All information is provided through the DE registration process. Simply click the enter button and follow the prompts. c) New players to ICCF play 1 section for free.

6. Who is considered a new player to ICCF?
a) Players without ICCF ID or, b) Players with ICCF ID but who never played an ICCF rated game in the past.

7. What is the time frame?
The tournament will be played in three stages: preliminaries, semifinal and final. Preliminaries will start in early June 2012, with an approximate end date of Feb 28th, 2014. The other 2 stages will be scheduled accordingly at a later date. Reference information: 1st WebChess Open tournament - preliminaries started Feb 1st, 2005, all groups finished; semifinals started Nov 15th, 2006, all groups finished; final started May 5th, 2009 ended Genuary 29th, 2011 2nd WebChess Open tournament - preliminaries started June 15th, 2006, all groups finished; semifinals started Jul 25th, 2008, all groups finished; final started June 21st, 2010 ended on February 9th, 2012 3rd WebChess Open tournament - preliminaries started May 20th, 2008, all groups finished; semifinal started July 31st, 2010 6 groups unfinished 4th Webchess Open tournament - preliminaries started July 20th, 2010; 18 unfinished groups

8. How will I play?
Preliminaries will consist of groups of 7 (seven) players each. All games will be rated. The latest ICCF Playing Rules Webserver will apply for all stages as applicable. You can read them online at www.iccf-webchess.com by clicking on “Online Help” ? “Server rules”.

9. How do I qualify from preliminaries?
Only the section winners will qualify for the semifinal stage. Ties will be broken according to the ICCF Tournament Rules, Article 5.

10. What are the prizes available?
The ICCF Executive Board will decide on the prizes available for the final stage at a later date.

11. To verify entries, you may check the latest list at http://www.asigc.it/temp/wot5.htm

We welcome with open arms regular ICCF players as well as new ones, eager to test their skills with us. It is our hope you will enjoy the experience on our server and will use this opportunity to make new friends around the World. Play Webserver chess with ICCF! Join your National CC Federation and the ICCF community! AMICI SUMUS!

by andrewdearnley@yahoo.co.uk

6 March 2012

The following are ICCF events that CCCA members have recently finished:
WCCC35PR02 (WS) * (Paul Morley) (completed play with 8-6)
WCCC35PR03 (WS) * (Michael Hyrniw) (completed play with 4½-7½)
WS/M/334 * (Paul Morley) (completed play with 6-4)
WS/O/472 * (Vas Sladek) (completed play with 3-3)
4th Webchess Open (prelims)
Group 82 * (Vas Sladek) (completed with 1-5, 7th place)
Direct Entry 5th Anniversary Tournament (Prelims):
DE5A/pr56 * (Craig Sadler) (completed play with 4½ - 1½)

Argentina Bicentennial "B"
* IM Mario Adriano (completed play with 3½ - 8½)
* IM Richard Labonté (completed play with 6-6)

The following are ICCF events that CCCA members have recently started:
* Please note that Paul and Craig are representing Canada in the 2012 WCCC Prelims. We wish them success and good games.
WCCC36PR02 (WS) (Paul Morley)
WCCC36PR09 (WS) (Craig Sadler)

21 February 2012

Updated ICCF Ratings of CCCA Members' list

20 February 2012

CCCA Rating list updated

The following cross-tables have been updated:
R-0901 ; KE-67; O-10 ; OE-11 ; O-11 ; P-1101 ; W-09 ; W-10 ; A-0901 ; AE-111 ; OE-11 ; P-1001 ;
PE-1101 ; PE-1102

New Events:
KE-68 ; K-68 ; L-6 ; P-1201

Updated 10th Pan/Am Canada-Blue Team crosstable

The following Team Friendly cross-tables updated:
Canada vs. Schemingmind.com
Canada vs. England (BCCA)

The following pages have been updated:
Team Friendlies Index
CCCA Tournament Index Page
Expired Tournaments Page

16 February 2012

Updated 10th Pan/Am Canada-Red Team crosstable

Walter Muir Memorial Starts!

This long over due memorial in memory of ICCF IM Walter Muir (1905-2000) finally got underway on 15 February. It was jointly organized by the CCCA and ICCF-US, and is being played in 2, 15-player sections on the ICCF webserver . The A-section is a very strong category 13 event with the participation of 8 ICCF GMs and 6 ICCF SIMs. The B-section is a category 7 event with the participation of 3 SIMs and 3 IMs. Canada is being represented in the B-section by IMs Eugen Demian and Serge Dubuc and Paul Morley. We wish them success. The total prize fund for section A is $1,800 for the top five places. And the total prize for section B is $1,500. Co-champions will be declared if a tie for first, and cash prizes will be split among all ties. Section A crosstable ; Section B crosstable. Below is a brief bio as published at the ICCF-US website:

"Walter Muir has deservedly earned the title of the Grand Old Man of American Correspondence Chess. He led American players into the international arena. He was a nine time Canadian Correspondence Chess Association Champion, twice British Overseas CC Champion, 16 time champion of the Illinois CCA, winner of nine ICCF Master Tournaments, qualified seven times for ICCF World Championship second-round play, and played on four Olympiad teams for the United States. Muir was awarded the title of International Correspondence Chess Master in 1971. Walter was active as a chess administrator and OTB player, and was a cofounder of ICCF-US." (7 February 2012).

In addition he won the CCCA Championship 8 eight times during the 1920s, 30s and 40s. He was also a member of the CCCA executive at one point in the early to mid 1930s. And became vice president in 1936.

2 February 2012

Updated 10th Pan/Am Canada-Red Team crosstable

6 January 2012

* Happy New Year 2012! *

The following are ICCF events that CCCA members have recently finished:
WCCC34PR02(WS) * (Al Fichaud) (completed play with 6½-5½, 6th place)
WS/M/284 * (Paul Morley) (completed play with 5½-4½)
WS/M/316 * (Paul Morley) (completed play with 5½-4½)
WS/M/319 * (Craig Sadler) (completed play with 4½-5½)
WS/M/325 * (Paul Morley) (completed play with 7½ - 2½)
4th ICCF Veterans World Cup (prelims) (WS):
Group 19 * (Michel Giroux) (completed with 0-12)
Direct Entry 5th Anniversary Tournament (Prelims):
DE5A/pr59 * (Phil Heyland) (completed play with 0-6)
4th Webchess Open (prelims):
Group 68 * (Craig Sadler) (completed play with 5½-1½, 1st place, qualifies for 2nd rd. Congratulations to Craig!)

The following are ICCF events that CCCA members have recently started:
WS/M/352 (Paul Morley)
WS/M/357 (Arthur Prystenski)
WS/M/361 IM Serge Maurer)
WS/MN/078 (Michael Egan)

15 December 2011

CCCA-90 Starts!

The 4th edition of Canada's international Anniversary event, CCCA-90, to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the CCCA, officially gets underway today! The event is Category VII with 15 participants from 11 countries. IM Richard Labonté, Al Fichaud, and Dan Rotaru are representing Canada this time around. Below are the list of the participants. We wish all the players a good tournament.

1.(ENG) IM Rawlings, Alan J. C. 2409
2. (ARG) Macayo, Ricardo Luis 2379
3. (POR) IM Moreira, José Américo Paiva 2402
4. (ITA) IM Bresadola, Dr. Guido 2359
5. (POL) Stanach, Fabian 2448
6. (NOR) Gramstad, Reidar 2403
7. (USA) Green, Wesley C. 2444
8. (USA) Coplin, Lawrence 2416
9. (CAN) Fichaud, Alan 2400
10. (GER) Kraft, Dieter 2392
11. (AUS) Fenwick, John Paul 2405
12. (CAN) IM Labonte, Richard 2456
13. (FRA) LePage, Claude 2358
14. (CHI) Cortés Olivares, Ricardo 2442
15. (CAN) Rotaru, Dan 2447

Click: crosstable to view current standings. You can bookmark this webpage. The link to the crosstable will also be found on the ICCF Tournament Events Index Page

Updated 10th Pan/Am Canada-Red Team crosstable

28 November 2011

Updated 10th Pan/Am Canada-Red Team crosstable

27 November 2011

CCCA Rating list updated
The following cross-tables have been updated:
R-0901 ; L5 ; KE-67; O-10 ; OE-11 ; R-1001 ; AE-111 ; A-1101 ; O-11 ; PE-1104 ; P-1101 ; R-0801 ; W-09 ; W-10

Updated 10th Pan/Am Canada-Blue Team crosstable

The following Team Friendly cross-tables updated:
Canada vs. Slovakia
Canada vs. Schemingmind.com
Canada vs. England (BCCA)
Canada vs. Finland

The following pages have been updated:
Team Friendlies Index
CCCA Tournament Index Page
Expired Tournaments Page

22 November 2011

Updated 10th Pan/Am Canada-Red Team crosstable

11 November 2011

Updated ICCF Ratings of CCCA Members' list

Updated 10th Pan/Am Canada-Red Team crosstable

	Welcome To The Canadian Correspondence Chess Association Home Page Bienvenue Au Site De L'association Canadienne Des Échecs Par Correspondance

The following Announcement was posted at the ICCF webserver on 28 February. * Please note that those members who wish to enter via the CCCA (your NF), the entrance fee per section will be $17. ---- Ralph P. Marconi, CCCA International Events Secretary

5th ICCF Webchess Open Tournament

The following Announcement was posted at the ICCF webserver on 28 February. * Please note that those members who wish to enter via the CCCA (your NF), the entrance fee per section will be $17.
---- Ralph P. Marconi, CCCA International Events Secretary