Chess News ICCF

Dear chessfriends,

A sad news shakes our chess community far beyond the BdF. GM Horst Rittner finished his last game in the night of June 14 and will never return to the board. A look into his vita shows which big footprints he leaves behind:

Correction of EU Senior Cup Preliminaries

see details

Server Downtime

The server will be briefly unavailable on the morning of Friday 2nd July.

World Correspondence Chess Championship 2021 Cycle:

the Candidates‘ Tournament of the 41th WCCC

Final of the 11th European Team Championship

- initiated!

NOL van ‘t Riet Tournaments!

have started

ICCF Platinum Jubilee

- you can already follow the struggles of the world's top chess players live!

World Team Cup

Call for entries

1st EU Senior Cup

has commenced

ICCF - 2020 - 2021 Medal and Certificate Awards

Sent to all ICCF Delegates and Officials - Please note that if your federation does not appear on this list by 15th June 2021, you will not receive any medals or certificates earned since 2019, and these will not be re-issued in future years.

2021 WCCC Semi-Finals (WCCC 45 SF)

The 2021 WCCC Semi-Finals (WCCC 45 SF) have been inserted on ICCF webserver

Silli System Description

New explanatory document

Veterans World Cup 13

Entries Update 11/5/2021

The 10th European Team Championship has come to an end.

The winner is Germany!

Veterans World Cup 8 Final (VWC8) has finished.

Winner is IM Guy Van Habberney (BEL).

George D. Pyrich Memorial Team Tournament Final

The tournament has started.

ICCF 2021 Congress – Updated Status (15/04/2021)

The updated plan for the ICCF 2021 Congress

Zvonko Juras 1948-2021†

With the sad news, ICCF must announce the passing of our Croatian delegate, Mr. Zvonk Juras.

DE 15th Webserver Anniversary DE15 A

The Direct Entry Webserver 15th A Anniversary has just started - already results are piling in—some interesting statistics on the tournament.

13th ICCF Veterans’ World Cup (VWC)

Tournament Announcement