ICCF Congress 2013 – Kraków (Poland)

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ICCF Congress 2013, Kraków (Poland) in short on YouTube

Aneta Bochnacka

Dear Friends,

Please visit YouTube and enjoy Congress summary made by our young and talented lady photographer Mrs. Aneta Bochnacka 🙂
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ICCF Congress 2013 participants in front of the hotel

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Registration status

Number of participants:	91
Member Federations:	41
Last update:	2013-07-21

See more details about registrations at page „Participants„.

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Previous ICCF Congresses hosted by Poland

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Poland hosted ICCF Congress three times: 1973-Warszawa, 1983-Poznań and 1993-Gdańsk. Some of you participated them and maybe you recognize yourself or other participants on the pictures 🙂

And now it’s time for Kraków!

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FIDE Congress in Kraków

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ICCF President, Eric Ruch from France, participated in FIDE Congress in Kraków in the period of 20-21.10.2011.

On 20.10.2011 in the evening, after congress meeting in Hotel Europejski, he was welcomed by ICCF Delegate to Poland, Mariusz Wojnar, and Polish cc player from Cracow, Piotr Walczak.

We could discuss differences between OTB and correspondence chess for a while with two Polish hosts – IA Andrzej Filipowicz and President of the Polish Chess Federation, Tomasz Sielicki.

Then substitute of the city attraction was presented during short walk in the Old Town. We had nice time in “Jama Michalika” (established in 1895), the most famous café for artists, very well known for almost one hundred years. Here most outstanding artists have met, here the cabaret „Zielony Balonik” began to exist and here the spirit of „Mloda Polska” was born.

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ICCF – 2013 Minutes – Final Version

Greetings ICCF Delegates, Officials, and Friends,

The final version of the 2013 ICCF Congress minutes has been posted on the ICCF website.

They may be found under the menu heading, ICCF Congresses, at www.iccf-webchess.com [see also congress page „Documents„]

Regards,

Dr. Michael Millstone, ICCF General Secretary

Transfers from/to the Kraków Airport/Kraków Główny Railway Station

Return transfers from Kraków Airport/Railway Station to the hotel were performed by professional transfer company Airporttransfer.com.pl. Cooperation was perfect! All participants complemented provided servises 🙂 Please see below owner of the company Marek Szostakowski.

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ICCF – 2013 Congress Summary

Dear ICCF Delegates, Officials, and Friends,

Below are some highlights from the 2013 Congress held in Cracow.

Statute 13 was modified to allow deviations from FIDE when appropriate.
“The Basic Laws of Chess only apply to Over-the-Board play”
New ICCF Member Federations
- Cape Verde (Zone 4 – Francisco Carapinha – Delegate)
- Venezuela (Zone 2 – César Jesús Reyes Maldonado – Delegate)
Andrew Dearnley (ENG) elected as Marketing Director
Markus Hömske (FRA) appointed as NTTC (Non Title Tournament Commissioner)
Jason Bokar (USA) appointed as Help Desk Manager
Neil Limbert (ENG) has resigned from the qualification Commission position after a superb 4-year contribution to ICCF. Any interested parties are invited to contact the General Secretary for more information.
Scoring 3/1/0 proposal not adopted
Chess 960 rating are approved – Rating Commissioner is working on implementation.
Incremental time control adopted (10/50 remains the time control for most ICCF tournaments)
Special Leave disbanded effective 01/01/2014. 45 days of leave per calendar year will be introduced for all tournaments starting after 01/01/2014.
Table bases are introduced. 50-move rule suspended if TB is entered. Playing Rules committee along with the Service Director, under oversight of the EB will address the technical issues of implementation.
Some changes were made to the Code of Conduct regarding slow play.
A new category will be added to the Promotion Events ladder (below to Open class) to promote chess for very low ranking players.
Congress 2014 – Sydney – Delegate Brian Jones is already preparing for an Oct 2014 Congress Australia.
Congress 2015 – Bulgaria has submitted a non-binding interest in hosting the 2015 in a resort on the Black Sea. However, other Federations are encouraged to submit proposals before Australia.

2013 Congress Minutes Review Timelines

August 24 – President and GS finalize first draft.
August 25 – send draft version 2 to officials presenting at Congress – deadline August 31
September 7, send draft version 3 to delegates
September 22, deadline for draft 3 comments
September 30, send final draft to all
October 6 – final version published

Regards,

Dr. Michael Millstone, ICCF General Secretary

Closing Banquet on 2013-07-26

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Closing Banquet 1 (mpg clip)

Closing Banquet 2 (mpg clip)

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Cracow Tour on 2013-07-26

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Cracow Tour (mpg clip)

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Match ICCF-Cracow on 2013-07-25

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Excursion to Wieliczka Salt Mine on 2013-07-25

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ICCF Blitz Tournament on 2013-07-24

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Traditional ICCF Blitz Tournament started at 20:20. It has been delayed because of emergency situation in the hotel.

Players – 20, distance-11 rounds (Swiss), rate of play – 5 minutes per game, chess arbiter – Tomasz Skrzypczak.

Two players shared the first place – IM Dmitry Lybin from Belarus and IM Virginijus Dambrauskas from Lithuania. However, Dmitry was better by tie-breaking, in addition Dmitry won against Virginijus.

Final standings after 11 rounds are presented in photo gallery above.