Russian Correspondence Chess Federation (RCCA)

Announcement of the RCCA invitational tournaments

Russian Correspondence Chess Association (RCCA) will

organize invitational tournaments. The tournaments were

approved by the ICCF Congress 2010 and will be played on the

ICCF webserver. All games in the tournaments will be rated. The

official start date of the tournaments is November – December

2010. The reflection time will be 50 days for 10 moves.

RCCA-Diamond. Cat XV. Granting GM, SIM, IM norms.

11-15 players. Players who wish to participate in RCCA-Gold

shall have ELO (rating) 2600+ in ICCF rating list from October 1st

2010.

RCCA-Gold-2010. Cat XI. Granting GM, SIM, IM norms.

15-17 players. Players who wish to participate in RCCA-Gold

shall have GM title or a ELO (rating) 2525+ in ICCF rating list from

October 1st 2010.

RCCA-Silver-2010. Cat VII. Granting GM, SIM, IM norms.

15-17 players. Players who wish to participate in RCCA-

Silver shall have a ELO (rating) 2425+ in ICCF rating list from

October 1st 2010.

RCCA-Bronze. Cat IV. Granting SIM, IM norms.

15-17 players. Players who wish to participate in RCCA-

Bronze shall have a ELO (rating) 2350+ in ICCF rating list from

October 1st 2010.

I have the honour of inviting players from your country to

take part in our tournaments.

I look forward for your answer as soon as possible.

Kind Regards & Amici Sumus

Sergey Ya. Grodzensky

President of the RCCA,

ICCF delegate for Russia