I inform you that I have inserted the 2015 WCCC Preliminaries (WCCC 39 PR) on ICCF web-server.
Here are some highlights:
- Official start-date: March 20, 2015
- TD: Sections 1-6: IA Adrián de Blois Figueredo (ESP); Sections 7-12: IA Laurent Tinture (FRA)
- 12 Sections with 13 players each (i.e. 156 players)
- Category III (average rating of each Section: from 2321 to 2324)
- Players from 44 different countries (42 NF + 2 countries who are not currently ICCF members)
- 2 or 3 players from Germany, 1 player from RUS, no more than 1 player from any other country in each Section
- 2 GM; 26 SIM; 33 IM; 1 FIDE IM
- the winner and the runner-up of each Section (i.e. 24 players) qualify to a WCCC Semifinal
Best greetings.
Gian-Maria Tani
ICCF Title Tournament Commissioner