THE INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE

CHESS FEDERATION – ICCF

FINAL of the 19^th World Correspondence Chess ampionship

(1^st email chess world championship, Sponsored by nic)

PRESS RELEASE

April 3^rd, 2004

The Final of the 19^th World Correspondence Chess Championship (1^st Email Chess World Championship, sponsored by NIC) will start on 20^th April, 2004 with the following 13 participants in start order:

#	ICCF id	title	player	country	rating
1	240336	GM	CARDELLI, Gabriel	ITA	2538
2	081348	GM	VOSS, Maximilian	GER	2641
3	080939	GM	HERTEL, Peter	GER	2655
4	180753	GM	LÉOTARD, Christophe	FRA	2655
5	940476	SM	GOZMAN, Alexandr	UKR	2590
6	940345	GM	LEPIKHOV, Aleksey	UKR	2609
7	070628	GM	COSTA, Carlos E.	BRA	2689
8	083552	GM	GERHARDT, Frank	GER	2643
9	570017	GM	STULL, Norbert	LUX	2602
10	083556	SM	GEIST, Helmut	GER	2575
11	130982	SM	LEXA, Václav	CZE	2562
12	083358	SM	FADEMRECHT, Werner	GER	2570
13	141166	SM	ROMANOV, Sergey A.	RUS	2558
Elo average:		2607		Category:	XV
GM norm: 6,0 / 12 • SM norm: 4,5 / 12 • IM norm: 4,0 / 12

The Tournament Director is Mr. Ian Brooks from England.

For this tournament, the ICCF Playing Rules for tournaments played normally by email will apply.

Those players who gain places 1-3 will be awarded a GM title. Ties will be broken according to the ICCF rules (first the Sonneborn-Berger, then results of the tied players against each other). In cases of death or withdrawal (para 9 of the Playing Rules), the Tournament Director will decide individually whether all the games of the deceased or withdrawn players will be annulled or the remaining games adjudicated or scored as losses.

With very best wishes.

AMICI SUMUS,

J. Daniel Finkelstein

ICCF Title Tournaments Commissioner