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THE INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE
CHESS FEDERATION – ICCF

MARCO CARESSA
Title Tournaments Commissioner
Email: mcaressa@iccf.com

CORRESPONDENCE CHESS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
FINAL OF THE 9th LADIES’ TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
(9th Ladies’ Olympiad)

June 3rd 2011
Dear chessfriends,


The International Correspondence Chess Federation is delighted to announce the organisation of the Ninth Ladies’ Correspondence Chess Team Championship.

All National Federations are invited to enter.

The tournament will consist of a Final only because there were an insufficient number of teams to form Preliminaries.

The tournament will be played on ICCF webserver.

The tournament will be governed by the paragraph 1.8 of the valid ICCF Tournament Rules. Paragraph 6.7.g of the ICCF Tournament Rules shall apply for the allocation of colours.

It is planned to start the Final on 1st September, 2011.

There will be four (4) lady players in each team. A maximum of two (2) lady players may be replaced during the tournament. The top three placed teams will qualify for the Final of the 8th Ladies’ Olympiad.

The entry fee is Euro 17,00 per player.

Team entries should be sent via the national federation, by Email to the ICCF Title Tournaments Commissioner Marco Caressa (mcaressa@iccf.com), to be received not later than on 20th July, 2011.

All entries should include the following details:
- preferred board order,
- names, ICCF codes, Email addresses of all lady players in the team,
- name, Email address of the Team Captain.

For title norm purposes, rating numbers will be taken from the ICCF Rating List as at July 1st 2011 and / or from the current FIDE Rating List. FIDE ratings will be treated as “unfixed” for title norm purposes. Other players will be allocated a special tournament rating of 1900.

AMICI SUMUS !

Marco Caressa
Title Tournaments Commissioner