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CHESS Minister!:
CCCC Championship:
The Club publishes a magazine entitled ‘CHESS minister!’ 3 times a year to keep members in touch.
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The Club publishes a magazine entitled ‘CHESS minister!’ 3 times a year to keep members in touch.
If you are interested in joining us, please contact the Secretary:
The games shall be played by correspondence, ie by transmitting
the moves on specially printed correspondence chess cards, on post
cards, or in letters; these must contain the time used (see par.
14) and the signature of the player. It is desirable to use approved
correspondence chess cards to transmit moves. Scoresheets or scorecards
may be used only with the approval of both players: they must understand
that this method of transmission does not provide positive proof
of the moves played or the dates of transmission and receipt. Players
shall have the option of using second class post, except where first
class post is declared mandatory in the playing rules, or by the
tournament secretary. All correspondence to the tournament secretary
in respect of time claims, disputes, adjudications, and appeals shall
be transmitted by first class post.
Moves shall be sent in algebraic
or a mutually agreed notation. The opponent’s latest move shall be
repeated. The correct repetition of this move is necessary for the
sender’s own move to be valid.
The moves must be numbered.
A valid move, once posted can
in no way be taken back, not even by telegram. Clerical errors are
binding if they are possible and legal moves.
It is permissible to
propose to the opponent one or more conditional (“if”) moves. Whoever
proposes conditional moves is bound by them until he receives his opponent’s
answer.
When accepting conditional moves, they must be repeated. When
accepting a sequence of conditional moves, all accepted conditional
moves must be repeated in the correct sequence.
Impossible, illegal or
illegible moves shall be referred back to the sender for correction
and ambiguous moves for clarification. Additional reflection time shall
count for the guilty player as if for separate moves.
An impossible
move is a move which cannot be played as recorded. An impossible move
or an illegible move in no way obliges the player to move the piece
in question.
The omission or addition of chess indications (such as “check”,
“captures”, “mate”, “any move”, “en passant”) is without significance.
A move is not impossible in this way.
A full record of the game must
be written down, as well as the time of reflection used. It is desirable
to use authorized correspondence chess sheets for this. All correspondence
of one’s opponent shall be kept until the conclusion of the tournament.
The playing regulations of the FIDE are also valid for correspondence chess, in so far as they are not altered under paragraphs 1-10. (For instance obviously “touch and move” does not apply.)