15th ICCF Veterans World Cup (VWC15)
Friday, August 15, 2025: Tournament Announcement
The ICCF Congress decided that following the great popularity of this tournament amongst older players, the Veterans World Cup would be started every other year. Working in collaboration with ICCF, the Netherlands Federation for Correspondence Chess (NBC) will organize the 15th Veterans’ World Cup tournament.
The first stage of the 15th ICCF Veterans World Cup will start on 1st November 2025.
As with the previous VWCs, the tournament will be organized in three stages which will allow several players from each group stage to advance to the semi-finals and final.
The number of promotions will depend on total entries received. The winners of each group earn a qualification towards the next stage in any case.
It is envisaged that groups at the preliminary stage will comprise of 11 players (10 games) or 13 players (12 games) played by webserver with a rate of play 550 days Triple Block without "guaranteed time" (PR and SF). And only in the final with "guaranteed time". The final round will be played with Silli System, if necessary.
The Semifinal will probably start in May 2027 and the Final in February 2029.
Eligibility
The 15th ICCF Veterans World Cup is open to all players who are 60 years old or more at the start date of the tournament. Therefore, players have to be at least 60 years old on November 1st 2025.
Entries
Players may enter:
- through their federation (contact your federation for the amount of the entry fee)
- where eligible, via the ICCF Direct Entry system. The entry fee by Direct Entry will be € 9.00 for each preliminary group entered.
Although the number of preliminary groups which each player may enter is unlimited, no player will qualify for more than two semi-final groups or for more than one place in the final.
Entries should be made via the server from the "New Events" page. It would be appreciated if delegates would approve entries made through their federation via the server as soon as possible after receipt rather than delay them until the closing date. Entries sent by email directly to the tournament organizer by delegates or players will not be accepted.
Closing date for entries is October 5th 2025.
After this date any registrations received by the tournament organizer will only be confirmed so that groups may be balanced.
All veteran chess players are heartily invited to enter this tournament, both for the enjoyment of games and for friendly contact/communication with senior players around the world.
Federations are kindly asked to give the tournament wide publicity to their veteran players.
Joop Jansen
NBC Delegate and Tournament Organizer
Giorgio Ruggeri Laderchi
ICCF Non-Title Tournament Commissioner
Uwe Staroske
ICCF World Tournament Director