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“Chess Training for Candidate Masters” is a book by Grandmaster Kalinin aimed at addressing the fact that today’s aspiring chess masters have benefited greatly from working with chess computers.  Altough the book is aimed at over the board players, the book has great insights for correspondence aspring masters as well. It starts from the recognition that […]

The tournament organizer Everdinand Knol (RSA) has submitted the following tournament announcement: Tournament AnnouncementThe purpose of this event is to develop the spirit of amici sumus among players worldwide (in all ICCF Zones) and to provide opportunities to qualify for title norms.This event will start with a preliminary stage consisting of groups of 9 players […]

This post reviews a book that is a treasure trove of insights into CC. Sanakoev is the 12th World Correspondence Champion, 1985-92. The book relates his three attempts to win the Championship. WORLD CHAMPION AT THE THIRD ATTEMPT (Grigory Sanakoev). GAMBIT PUBLICATIONS 256 pages (210 mm by 145 mm). £9.50/$14.95/€12,85  ISBN (10 digits): 1-901983-11-0 ISBN (13 […]

Our Head TD IA Juan Martello (ARG) reports the following events have started in December 2019: Open Class Open class 45/2019 Open class 46/2019 Open class 47/2019 Higher Class Higher class 19/2019 Master Class Master class 4/2019 WZ Individual Championship Preliminaries Prelim 14/2019 Prelim 15/2019 WZ Individual Championship Semifinals Semif 14/2019 PanAm Individual Semifinals 12 […]

Our General TD IA Juan Martello (ARG) reports the following events have started in October-November: Open Class Open class 43/2019 Open class 44/2019 Higher Class Higher class 16/2019 Higher class 17/2019 Higher class 18/2019

Dear players, The Pan Am Semifinals will be starting soon but we wanted to mention a few details that are important: Players that qualified in one of the 33 preliminary sections must confirm their intention to play the semifinals otherwise they will not play. You may accomplish this by simply sending us a message. To […]

The World Zone Management Team is glad to announce that registration is open to the Pan Am Individual Championship Semifinals Time control: Triple Block 600 days Start date: 15 December 2019 Registrations: before 30 November 2019 11 or more players per sections, according to the number of entries Reserved for qualifiers from the Preliminaries and […]

Our General TD IA Juan Martello (ARG) reports the following events have started in September: Open Class Open class 41/2019 Open class 42/2019 Master Norm Master norm 9/2019 WZ Individual Championship – Preliminaries Prelim 12/2019 Prelim 13/2019 WZ Individual Championship – Semifinals Semifinal 13/2019 WZ Individual Championship – Candidates Candidates 3/2019 Candidates 4/2019