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
