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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

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Oleksandr Vaisman Memorial (UKR)

Correspondence Chess Federation of Ukraine (CCFU) is delighted to announce the Oleksandr Vaisman Memorial of the 9th ICCF European Champion

Tournament description

Any player can play this tournament regardless of his rating. The tournament will be played in a single phase.

The tournaments will be organized with the SILLI system (single round 10). 

All player entries (max. 2 per player) will be sorted according to the player's ELO on the list 2025/4 as of October 1st, 2025 in these groups:

• Oleksandr Vaysman Memorial A and A1 (2 groups): players 2400+ ELO

• Oleksandr Vaysman Memorial B and B1 (2 groups): players 2300 - 2399 ELO

• Oleksandr Vaysman Memorial C and C1 (2 groups): players 2200 - 2299 ELO

• Oleksandr Vaysman Memorial D and D1 (2 groups): players 2000 - 2199 ELO

• Oleksandr Vaysman Memorial E and E1 (2 groups): players 0 - 1999 ELO

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

Start tournament is December 1 st, 2025

The event will be played on the ICCF server using the Triple Block time control with a tournament duration of 350 days, 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 event will be rated and if the criteria are met, it will be possible to achieve ICCF title norms.

Organized by: Horodyskyi Oleh (UKR)

Directed by: Yeremenko Andrei (UKR), Puzanov Vasyl (UKR)

Registrations

The tournament is open to all players.

Players may enter via the ICCF Direct Entry system on the ICCF server by opening menu "New Events-Ukraine". Entries received via email will not be accepted!

Entry fee for Direct Entry system is €8 per group. Contact your national federation delegates for the national fee.

The ICCF rating as of October 1st, 2025 (Ranking list 2025/4) is binding.

Closing date for Direct Entry is November 17 th, 2025.

Closing date for NF entries is November 15th, 2025.

Certificates

Electronic certificates will be awarded for the first 3 places.

Amici Sumus,

TO Horodyskyi Oleh