British Federation for Correspondence Chess

The Third ICCF Veteran’s World Cup will be started on 1st September 2010.
As with the 2nd VWC, the event will be organised in three stages, which will allow several players from each group stage to advance to the Semi-finals and Final. The number of promotions will depend on the total of entries received, but groups at each stage will comprise of 13 players (12 games) played by webserver with a rate of play of 10 moves in 40 days.
ICCF Veteran’s World Cups are open to all players who are 60 years old or more at the start of the tournament. Although the number of preliminary groups which each player may enter is unlimited, no player will qualify for more than two Semi-final groups or more than one place in the Final. Entries to be received before 17th July 2010. The  subsidised entry fee is £15 through BFCC. Please send your entrie(s) to Andrew Dearnley, 17 Smithy Hill, Upper Denby, Huddersfield, HD8 8UH including a cheque payable to 'BFCC'. If you prefer to pay online, that is fine. Please use the description 'ICCF 3rd Veterans WC' but still advise your entry by post or email to me, including your date of birth in the communication.

BFCC would like to encourage more women chess players to enter correspondence chess tournaments, and we are currently running a survey of female players to help us to understand what kind of events would be attractive in the future.

If you are a lady, and you play chess, please consider completing the online questionnaire:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YL5JFB9

Thank you.

Edward Sowden has taken a commanding lead in the final of the British Veterans Championship with 5/6. Only three players can still catch him. For full crosstable see:-
http://www.iccf-webchess.com/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=19679

There are also five Candidates sections which are all still wide open.

See "International" page for latest England Match Scores update from Captain Barry Sheppard.