{"id":3252,"date":"2012-02-09T09:26:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T08:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=3252"},"modified":"2012-02-09T09:37:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T08:37:44","slug":"japan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=3252","title":{"rendered":"Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article from Gold Book. Update to follow.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Name of Federation<\/strong>: Japan Postal Chess Association (JPCA)<\/p>\n

Year of Foundation<\/strong>: 1964<\/p>\n

ICCF Delegate and E-Mail contact<\/strong>: Hirokaz Onoda (iccfjpn@hotmail.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Website<\/strong>: http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/games4\/kakapo\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Article provided by<\/strong>: Hirokaz Onoda.<\/p>\n

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In 1963, Mr. Hayakawa, the current JPCA president, started a postal Chess club named “Pawn Chess Club.” It first consisted of 9 members. Mr. Hayakawa started to edit and publish a club bulletin “The Pawn” and the first CC. tournament was held, with 9 participants.<\/p>\n

One year later, in February 1964, \u201cThe Pawn\u201d Club was renamed \u201cJapan Postal Chess Association\u201d (JPCA).<\/p>\n

In 1965 JPCA joined the ICCF. At that time, JPCA had 30 members. Japan participated in the 4th ICCF Olympiad.<\/p>\n

In 1966 the first Correspondence Chess Championship of Japan was held. In the year 1972 JPCA started to calculate the domestic rating.<\/p>\n

The postage rate was raised excessively in 1981. (The new postage for a card was 40 yen\u2014in the spring of 1980, it was 20 yen, and after that, there was a short period when it was 30 yen). It affected the active CC players, about 140 people at the time, so severely that almost half of them stopped playing CC.<\/p>\n

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JPCA Open, the prize tournament for the first time, was held with 13 participants divided in two groups.<\/p>\n

In 1994 Onoda’s book “Chess” was published and the number of members of JPCA started to increase constantly. In 1997 Japan’s delegate for ICCF was changed from Mr. Tandai to Onoda.<\/p>\n

Now the JPCA bulletin “The Pawn”, written in Japanese, is published bi-monthly by Mr. Hayakawa, free to all members of the JPCA. The Japan CC Championship has been held almost every other year recently.<\/p>\n

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Article from Gold Book. Update to follow.<\/p>\n

Name of Federation: Japan Postal Chess Association (JPCA)<\/p>\n

Year of Foundation: 1964<\/p>\n

ICCF Delegate and E-Mail contact: Hirokaz Onoda (iccfjpn@hotmail.com)<\/p>\n

Website: http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/games4\/kakapo\/<\/p>\n

Article provided by: Hirokaz Onoda.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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