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The 2009 Congress asked the TRC to revise the wording of Section 5 of the Tournament Rules to make it clear that ICCF tie breaking rules were applicable for all ICCF correspondence chess tournaments, unless specifically excluded in the tournament announcement.
The following wording is suggested:

5 Tie Breaking

5.1 Tie-breaking is used in all tournaments organised by ICCF, unless the tournament announcement specifically states that ties will not be broken. The following will apply for two or more players, or two or more teams, with the same number of points:

5.2 Individual tournaments:

(a) points evaluation by the Sonneborn-Berger-System,
(b) results of the tied players against each other.

5.3 Team Tournaments:
(a) tie breaking on the basis of team results (2 additional points for a won match, 1 additional point for a drawn match),
(b) the results of the tied teams against each other.
(c) better individual result on bd.1 (following bd.2, 3 etc.)

5.4 If necessary, the organiser of the tournament is entitled to set up further tie-breaking procedures. These procedures must be indicated in the start list at the latest.

5.5 If players or teams are still tied after all relevant tie-breaking procedures have been used, the players or teams will be considered equal.