NORTH AMERICA/PACIFIC ZONE (NAPZ)

THE INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE CHESS FEDERATION
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Josef Mrkvička, ICCF President
Houškova 32, 326 00 Plzen, Czech Republic
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Email: josef.mrkvicka@volny.cz

4th November 2003

Dear Friends,

National delegates attending the ICCF Congress in Ostrava, unanimously approved detailed plans and funding arrangements for the agreed dedicated ICCF Webserver system.

The ICCF Congress agreed unanimously that a significant contribution should be transferred to a new Development Fund, which would be used for the ICCF Webserver system and for other future projects. It was also agreed, that further sources of funding should also be sought for the Development Fund, including individual, group and corporate patron schemes and other specific fund raising methods.

ICCF has been working closely with Chess Base GmbH to develop the technical design of the system and ChessBase has pledged to support the innovative standards, which we will use. ICCF is grateful for this assistance and welcomes close ongoing relationships with ChessBase GmbH.

The ICCF Congress in Ostrava also appointed Iain Mackintosh (SCO) as Project Manager. He is a very experienced IT and general manager and he is currently finalising the membership of the project team.

Design and development work is progressing well and the first events should be running on the new system around mid-2004. The ICCF schedule of events will be phased for Webserver tournaments over future months and new types of event will be developed, to exploit technology which will be available.

The Steering Group responsible for the system is Josef Mrkvička (CZE), Chairman, Alan Borwell (SCO), Nol van 't Riet (NED), Pedro Hegoburu (ARG), Grayling Hill (USA), Chris Lüers (GER) and Iain Mackintosh (SCO)

Member Federations and Zones will be able to use the ICCF Webserver system, for their own events.

The new system will provide administrative assistance for other methods of play e.g. postal and Email, and will also include streamlined facilities for rating, title awards, result reporting, game archiving etc.

We hope that ICCF players, officials and all member federations will give their full support to the project team, and to the Webserver facilities, as they become available.

With best wishes,

Amici Sumus

Josef Mrkvicka
ICCF President

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