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ICCF Home of the official international body for Correspondence Chess (CC), whose aims are "to organize, develop and promote the study and practice of international correspondence chess throughout the world. It supports and promotes close international co-operation between chess players, enthusiasts and with the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE), thereby aiming to enhance contact and friendly harmony amongst the peoples of the world." Webmaster Evelin Radosztics has put together a well organized and easily navigated site. A menu bar across the top indicates the major sections: About ICCF, Ratings & Titles, ICCF Rules, Tables & Results, Columns & Articles, and Game Archive. Another menu bar along the left side of each page gives access to sub pages within each of these topics. A variety of CC tournaments are under way at any given time, currently including such events as the CC World Championship, Olympiads (including a separate one for the ladies), tourneys via both e-mail and the more traditional postal service, as well as tourneys organized along class, thematic, and geographical lines. Ratings are updated every six months. Dr. Vytas (Victor) Palciauskas, the 10th World Correspondence Champion, wrote a Game-of-the-Month column for ICCF from January 2000 to October 2001, and these are all archived there. Unfortunately, this column has no new entries after last October. Of special note are the archived games, 16462 of them altogether. This is a real treasure trove of CC games in zipped pgn-format. CC players are known for the depth of their opening analysis, and these games in your favorite openings deserve close scrutiny. If CC is your thing, or you want to get started in the world
of International CC, this site is essential. Check it out
here. New Links: Check out the Recent Additions to our links collection. The French Defense: David Surratt continues his series on the French Defense with the third and final part of the introduction (if you've "arrived late," you can start at the beginning here). The "Hidden" Side of Chess: Part Two of Steve Ryan's article on the ins and outs of correspondence play. Annotated Game: Lasker v. Steinitz, World Championship Match, 1894, Game 1. Annotations by the players themselves. Book Review: Bill Whited reviews C.J.S. Purdy’s Fine Art of Chess Annotation and Other Thoughts. Book Review: Kelly Atkins reviews Secrets of Chess Intuition by Alexander Beliavsky and Adrian Mikhalchishin. Introduction to Chess Strategy for the Novice Player: Bill Whited continues his series with a discussion of the Hypermodern Center.
Basic Opening Strategy for the Beginner: S. Evan Kreider continues his
look at the general principles of opening play.
The Hypermodern Center The “scientific school” championed by Tarrasch and Steinitz,
dominated chess until the end of World War I. Today the good doctor’s name
is often used synonymously with the term dogmatic...Tarrasch’s teachings
influenced a generation of chess players and much of what we read in middle
game manuals today flows from his teachings and from those of Wilhelm
Steinitz. Probably the greatest representative of this school was Jose Raul
Capablanca...On to this stage stepped the masters of the Hypermodern School
of chess who were determined to prove Capablanca and the Scientific School
wrong. The battleground was to be the center. Whereas Tarrasch and the old
school advocated occupying the center with pawns and trying to maintain it
at all costs, the Hypermoderns preached that a center could be attacked with
pieces and undermined. If White couldn’t maintain that center, then Black
would have an advantage after it had been liquidated. Rather than focus on
defense as Steinitz had preached for Black, Hypermoderns preferred the
counterattack...Read
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Snyder Please GAMES Pablo's picks from the FM over IM Pert - Ganguly 1.d4 d5 A fine endgame lesson from GM Speelman in Rd 5: Speelman - 1.c4 e5
Check out the links collection. EXTRA: It's not the will to win that counts. Everybody has that. It's the will to prepare to win that's important. – Bear Bryant The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. – Joe Paterno A man who is well prepared has already fought half the battle. – Cervantes The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. – Sun Tzu The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. – Vince Lombardi If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat. – Herschel Walker If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting. – Dick Vermeil Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes. – Chinese Proverb He, who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. – Joubert
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