The 2020 WCCC Preliminaries (WCCC 44 PR) have been inserted on ICCF web-server.

Sunday, February 23, 2020: Here are some highlights:

• Official start-date: March 20, 2020
• TD: Sections 1-3: IA Laurent Tinture (FRA); Sections 4-7: IA Joop Jansen (NED); Sections 8-11: Virginijus Dambrauskas (LTU)
• 11 Sections with 13 players each (142 players + 1 double entry)
• Average rating of the Sections: from 2324,85 to 2324,92
• Players from 42 different countries
• 2 or 3 players from Germany, 1 or 2 players from Russia and no more than 1 player from any other country in each Section
• 2 GM; 13 SIM; 34 IM; 47 CCM; 27 CCE

The winner and the runner-up of each Section (i.e. 22 players) qualify to a WCCC Semi-Final

Gian-Maria Tani ICCF
Title Tournament Commissioner