ICCF Cuban Tropical Sun 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 "Cuban Tropical Sun 2025 International Open Tournament"

The Tournament will be played in a single phase using 1/25 ICCF rating list with 4 sections:

Section A for players with rating 2400 or higher

Section B for players with rating 2300 – 2399

Section C for players with rating between 2000 – 2299

Section D for players with rating 1999 or lower

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 50 days initial bank and 1 day increment for the first 50 moves is used.

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 grom higher to lower, 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 March 30, 2025.

Registrations

The registrations and the payment of the fees for Cuban Tropical Sun 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 9 €.

Inscriptions must be received no later than March 10, 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 lowest rating at the start of the tournament.

Amici Sumus,

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Problema de ajedrez de Román Torán publicat al Diari La Vanguardia de Barcelona.

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2nd Dimitar Karapchanski Memorial - Bulgarian International Open

Bulgarian CCA is delighted to announce the 2nd Dimitar Karapchanski Memorial

The tournament is played in the Silli system (10 games) on the ICCF server.

It is organized for player Elo 0-2750 rating group (two sections per player  )

all player entries (max. 2 per player) will be sorted according to the player's elo on the list 2025-1 as of 1 January 2025 in this grupps

Entry Link:  https://www.iccf.com/EventEntry.aspx?id=107649

2 groups A and A-1: players 2500 – 2750 ELO

2 groups B and B-1: players 2450 – 2499 ELO

2 groups C and C-1: players 2400 – 2449 ELO

2 groups D and D-1: players 2300 – 2399 ELO

2 groups E and E-1: players 2150 – 2299 ELO

2 groups F and F-1: players 1900 – 2149 ELO

2 groups G and G-1: players 0 – 1899 ELO.

In practice, this means that each player can play 2 sections!!

Tournament description:

ICCF standard time control 10 moves in 50 days with duplication after 20 days is used.

45 days of leave per year are available to each player.

There is no special leave in this event.

Linear conditionals can be entered.

This tournament allows claims based on the seven piece tablebase.

The event will be rated and if the criteria are met, it will be possible to achieve ICCF title norms.

Tie -breaking: if a tie persists after the standard tie-breaking procedures (para 1.3.4.2.2. a-e), the order is determined by the higher rating (fixed or unfixed) in previous ranting lists (before the end of the tournament) until broken.

If needed, adjudicators will be selected by the server.

Other participants can see the games after 10 games are finished in the event. and games are finished.

The public can see the games after 10 games are finished in the event and games are finished.

The tournament will start on 25.01.2025. There is no end date.

TO/TD: Matjaz Pirs and IA Simeon Vinchev

Registrations

The tournament is open to all players.

All entries have to go through the DE system on the ICCF server by opening Bulgaria menu in New Events . Entries cannot be sent via email!

Entry fee for Direct Entry system is 9.00 Euro (in the case of NF Entries, this is the responsibility of NF).

The ICCF rating as of January 1, 2025 (Ranking List 2025/1) is binding.

Closing date for Direct Entry is January 17, 2025.

Closing date for NF entries is January 15, 2025.

Certificates

Electronic certificates will be awarded for the first 10 places.

Amici Sumus,