THEMATIC
TOURNAMENT
OFFICE
	
THE INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE CHESS FEDERATION

							Leonardo Madonia
							via Leandro Alberti 54
							IT-40137 Bologna
							Italy

                                                                                         E -mail: l.madonia@iccf-europa.com	

								Bologna, July 12th 2015.

Dear chessfriends,

As in previous years, about 200 players participated in thematic tournaments last year. Some months ago I  cancelled a postal tournament because I received only 2 entries and some week ago I did the same for one of those of the series of server themes because any new tournament has not departed within one year. Now I will propose 11 themes (4 by post and 7 on the server) for 2016. Obviously, entries to the series of themes will continue to be always available and I will see if to replace that I have cancelled .

Chess 960 tournaments. 

I have started 10 new sections in 2014 and 7 in the first 7 months of 2015. There is a small increase every year and I am quite satisfied.
The 4th Chess 960 World Cup saw the participation of 95 players (were 103, 72, 100 in the previuos WCs) of which there were 10 titled players. We have the winner in the Diamond Jubilee 1st Chess 960 World Cup (1 game to go): SIM Fabian Stanach (POL) who scored 11.5. Congratulations to him! The Final of 2nd Chess 960 World Cup, the Semifinals of 3rd Chess 960 World Cup and the preliminaries of 4th Chess 960 World Cup are currently running. The 5th Chess 960 World Cup will start in March 2016.

As usual, I ask all the National Federations to publish the information about 2016 themes and Chess 960 events on their websites and magazines.

Amici sumus.

The TT Office
Leonardo Madonia