dijous, 30 d’octubre del 2025

ICCF Caribbean White Sands Reminder

Caribbean White Sands 2025 Open

Saturday, September 13, 2025: - announcement; start date December 15, 2025

The Cuban Correspondence Chess Federation (FECAP) are pleased to announce an International Tournament. Correspondence chess players from all countries are warmly invited to participate in the "Caribbean White Sands International Tournament 2025

 

The Tournament will be played in a single phase using 4/25 ICCF rating list with 4 sections:

 

Section A for players with rating 2500 or higher                        TO: Giraldo Menendez Rodriguez

Section B for players with rating 2300 – 2499                            TO: Pedro Vertiz Gutierrez

Section C for players with rating 2000 – 2299                            TO: Carlos Vila Hernandez

Section D for players with rating 1999 or lower                         TO: Giraldo Menendez Rodriguez

 

The tournament will be played on the ICCF server at triple block time control with an appropriate tournament duration according to the average rating of each group: 350 days event, with 75 days initial bank and 1 day increment for the first 50 moves is used. No guaranteed time will be available after move 50.

 

The tournament will be rated and valid to obtain the norms for ICCF titles in groups that meet all the conditions required by the ICCF.

 

Registered players grouped by rating will be allocated to groups of 11, 13 or 15 players in ranking order, so that all group members have a similar rating. The number of groups will depend on the number of registrations. Up to 2 registrations will be allowed, with the second registration the player will be paired in the group following the first group.

 

The start date of the tournament is December 15, 2025.

 

Registrations

The registrations and the payment of the fees for Caribbean White Sands International Tournament 2025 must be done by the DE system in the server of the ICCF opening the menu Cuba in New Events.

 

The registration fee is 15 €.

 

Inscriptions must be received no later than December 1, 2024.

 

Certificates

This tournament will award certificates to the top 3 in each group. The tiebreaker system will be: 1. Baumbach, 2. Sonnenborn-Berger, 3. the results of the players tied with each other and 4. the highest rating at the start of the tournament.

 

Prizes

This tournament will award a money prize of 30 € to each group winner depending of a pluss score (+50% of the points) After tie breaks prize will be adjudicated to the higher rated player at the start of the tournament.

 

 

Amici Sumus,
Giraldo Menéndez Rodríguez
FECAP President & ICCF Delegate Cuba