WZ tournaments starting in February 2019

Our Head tournament director IA Juan Martello (ARG) reports the following events started in February 2019: Open Class Open Class 27/2019 Open Class 28/2019 Higher Class Higher Class 10/2019 WZ Master Norm Master norm 7/2019 WZ GM norm GM norm 8/2019 Friendly match Brasil vs WZ

WZ tournaments starting in January 2019

Our Head tournament director IA Juan Martello (ARG) reports the following events started in January 2019: Open Class Open Class 24/2019 Open Class 25/2019 Open Class 26/2019 Individual Championship Semifinals Semif 10/2019

Match WZ vs CXEB

We received a great response from players to this match, 176 interested but we could only accommodate 50. Players were selected considering the number of interested players per country and also trying to include as many countries as possible. The excel file below shows the team lineups for this match.

Friendly match CXEB – WZ

We have been invited by CXEB (Brazilian federation) to play a friendly match celebrating their 50th anniversary.It will be a 50-board team match. Start date February 14 (day when CXEB was founded)The WZ team will be composed by players from all member federations with rating that matches the brazilian opponent and evenly distributed amongst all … Continue Reading

WZ tournaments starting in December 2018

Our Head Tournament Director IA Juan Martello (ARG) reports the following events started in December 2018: Open Class Open Class 21/2018 Open Class 22/2018 Open Class 23/2018 Higher Class Higher Class 08/2018 Higher Class 09/2018 Individual Championship Preliminaries Prelim 07/2018 Prelim 08/2019 Individual Championship Semifinals Semif 09/2018 Individual Championship Candidates Candidates 02/2019 Individual Championship Final … Continue Reading

WZ tournaments starting in November 2018

Our Head Tournament Director IA Juan Martello (ARG) reports the following events started in November 2018: Open Class Open Class 20/2018 WZ Master Norm WZ Master Norm 6/2018 WZ Grandmaster Norm WZ GM norm 7/2018

Class Championships have been cancelled

Due to the lack of popularity and inability to start more than one section in 10 months, the World Zone (WZ) Director has cancelled the Class Championships. This was reported by him to the WZ Delegates. Eleven players have outstanding entries to these events, in the different sections. They will be contacted by the Head … Continue Reading

New World Zone Auditor

The World Zone has a new Auditor, Ferdinand Burmeister (USA). He is an active correspondence chess player and has a financial background for over 50 years. Ferdinand owns an Accounting, Audit, International Tax and Financial consulting firm on Oxnard, CA. We wish him the best in his new position. We also thank our departing Auditor … Continue Reading

WZ tournaments starting in October 2018

Our Head Tournament Director IA Juan Martello (ARG) reports the following events have started: Open Class Open Class 18/2018 Open Class 19/2018 Higher Class Higher Class 07/2018 WZ Grandmaster norm WZ GM norm 06/2018