{"id":3204,"date":"2012-02-09T07:17:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T06:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=3204"},"modified":"2012-10-23T15:16:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T13:16:23","slug":"spain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=3204","title":{"rendered":"Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Name of Federation<\/strong>: Asociaci\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola de Ajedrez por Correspondencia (AEAC)<\/p>\n

Year of Foundation<\/strong>: 1941\/ from 2002 as AEAC<\/p>\n

ICCF Delegate & E-Mail contact<\/strong><\/strong>: Carlos Flores Guti\u00e9rrez (florescar@matepostal.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Website<\/strong>: http:\/\/www.matepostal.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Article provided by<\/strong>: \u201cMate Postal\u201d Group<\/p>\n

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Short History<\/h4>\n

Until now the oldest game played by correspondence in Spain of which we preserved full development and data was disputed in 1865 between two chess clubs domiciled in the cities of Gijon and Oviedo, as it was published by Pablo Mor\u00e1n Santamar\u00eda in our magazine \u201cMate Postal\u201d. However recently, thanks to research conducted by our partner and collaborator Carlos Mart\u00edn S\u00e1nchez fortune has brought the discovery of an even former game. It was played from March to June of 1850 between a Mr. William Henderson and several members of the club \u201cCirculo Cartagenero\u201d of the city of Cartagena and the development of the game was published move after move in a local newspaper from 24 of March till 2nd June 1850.<\/p>\n

The first Spanish organization dedicated exclusively to correspondence chess was founded in 1941 under the acronym FEDA-SAC. Ten years later the Spanish Chess Federation (FEDA) created their own \u201cVocal\u00eda de Ajedrez Postal\u201d and nominated Luis Marim\u00f3n Riera as Postal Chess member in its Executive Board. After a period of time when the activities of correspondence chess is largely irrelevant in our country, the Catalan Chess Federation decided in 1961 to organize the Catalonia Postal Chess Championship, that after two editions become “Open” and in 1969 the IX Spanish Postal Chess Championships. Almost at the same time, Carlos Ros Mir\u00f3 Postal Chess Commissioner within the Catalan Chess Federation Carlos was appointed to the same position in the Spanish Chess Federation.<\/p>\n

In 1974 Alfonso Campoy Moreno – a regular postal player – is elected President of the Spanish Chess Federation and under his leadership FEDA agreed to support postal chess, substantially increasing the financial aid to this modality of the game. With this help, Carlos Ros began publishing the newsletter \u201cMate Postal\u201d, organized all kind of national and international tournaments, and decided to devote his life to work with and for correspondence chess.<\/p>\n

A few years later FEDA Board was occupied by other persons and the financial support to postal chess disappeared from their budgets. For those reasons in 1983 is created the \u201cComisi\u00f3n Permanente de Ajedrez Postal (CPAP)\u201d, a kind of Association still connected with FEDA but acting quite independently.<\/p>\n

Finally, in January 2002 we decided to operate as an independent CC organization and founded the \u201cAsociaci\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola de Ajedrez por Correspondencia (AEAC)\u201d who has been ruling the destiny of correspondence chess in Spain during the last 10 years.<\/p>\n

Principal Achievements<\/h4>\n

A Spanish team (Lafarga Santorrom\u00e1n, Mart\u00edn Clemente, Drake D\u00edez de Rivera, C\u00e1novas Pordomingo, Velilla Velasco and Besc\u00f3s Anzano) has won the Silver Medal in Olympiad XVII.<\/p>\n

A Spanish team (Reig Pi\u00f1ol, Fern\u00e1ndez Vicente, Moreno Carretero and Mart\u00ed Pericot) won the \u201cMare Nostrum III\u201d tournament.<\/p>\n

A Spanish team (Cuadrado Wentwort-Hyde, Penades Ordaz, Fern\u00e1ndez Vicente, Reig Pi\u00f1ol, De Carlos Arregui, S\u00e1nchez R\u00f3denas, Pe\u00f1afiel L\u00f3pez and Rodr\u00edguez Rey) won the \u201cNorth Atlantic VI\u201d tournament.<\/p>\n

A Spanish team (Cruzado Due\u00f1as, Alonso G\u00f3nzalez, Mart\u00ed Pericot, Santos Crespo, P\u00e9rez Fern\u00e1ndez y Penades Ordaz) has won the Section 5 in the Preliminaries of the XVIII Olympiad, obtaining the classification for the next Olympiad Final.<\/p>\n

A Spanish team (Cruzado Due\u00f1as, Punz\u00f3n Moraleda, Penades Ordaz, Rodr\u00edguez Amezqueta, De Carlos Arregui, Rosa Ram\u00edrez, Tarr\u00edo Oca\u00f1a, Pe\u00f1afiel L\u00f3pez, Landero Luna and De Blois Figueredo) placed second in the \u201cChessfriends Rochade 5171 – 20 years\u201d, scoring 2,5 points more than the actual winner of the tournament!!.<\/p>\n

Carlos Cruzado Due\u00f1as won the title of European Champion in the 66th Championship.<\/p>\n

Several Spanish players classified for the World Championship Finals: Josep Mercadal Benejam (XX), Pedro Drake D\u00edez de Rivera (XXII), Joel Mart\u00edn Clemente (XXIII and XXVI), Francisco Javier Mu\u00f1oz Moreno (XXIV) and Juan Manuel Mart\u00ed Pericot (XXVI).<\/p>\n

Miguel \u00c1ngel C\u00e1novas Pordomingo was the winner of \u201cAEAC 5 Years \u2013 Alcazaba\u201d tournament (Category XII).<\/p>\n

Joel Mart\u00edn Clemente was the winner of \u201cAEAC 5 Year \u2013 Alhambra\u201d tournament (Category XII).<\/p>\n

Francisco de As\u00eds Velilla Velasco was the winner of \u201cCarlos Ros Mir\u00f3 Memorial\u201d tournament (Category VII)<\/p>\n

Manuel Jes\u00fas Besc\u00f3s Anzano was the winner of \u201cCarlos Ros Mir\u00f3 Memorial\u201d tournament (Category VII)<\/p>\n

At 31.08.2012, Spain has (some of them inactive):<\/p>\n