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CC SITES OF GENERAL INTEREST
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The International Correspondence Chess Federation main
site. Information about every aspect of the ICCF including World
Ascension Tournaments, rules, zones, member nations and congress minutes. |
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ICCF Afro-Asia |
ICCF Afro-Asia Zone -- Web site dedicated to players
from Africa and Asia to follow ICCF Afro-Asian Zonal activities.
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ICCF - Europa (ICCF European Zone) Home
page for the ICCF European Zone. Includes a great ICCF
Photo Album of ICCF people from all zones. (added 28-Feb-2004)
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WZ |
ICCF World Zone. World Zone currently consists of all the ICCF affiliates in the Americas
(North, South and Central) as well as some Pacific rim countries. Look for new opportunities in the World Zone.
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The United States Chess Federation site. ICCFUS affiliate.
Mostly dedicated to over the board play. Their web site has a
section devoted to USCF Correspondence
Chess
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The Correspondence Chess League of America site. ICCFUS affiliate.
The oldest correspondence chess organization in the US, still publishing the quarterly
Chess Correspondent.
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The All Services Postal Chess Club site.
Not an ICCFUS affiliate. This organization was created in 1957 to
meet the time control meeds of military personnel, but membership
is not restricted to members of the military.
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Excellent site maintained by Tim Harding, editor of
Chess Mail. Current events,
player
news, game results and much more. Frequently updated and definitely a must
visit for any CC player.
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The Campbell Report, chess journalist
J. Franklin Campbell's archived site devoted to correspondence chess
containing an archive of his APCT columns plus articles by many
chess journalists and other features. He was the long time editor of the ICCFUS
site so this archive contains a lot of the history of ICCFUS and NAPZ.
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Non-CC SITES OF INTEREST |
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2700 Chess. gives you the day-to-day updated/projected ratings of the
top OTB players in the world! Additionally it tracks the current tournaments and games involving those players.
If you enjoy watching the struggle at the top of the chess world this site is a must.
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ChessBase News provides all of the tournament news for top level OTB play. If you
follow the chess world, put this on your most viewed! It also offers a portal to current tourneys and games as well
as the Playchess server for playing and viewing.
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The Week In Chess |
The Week in Chess (TWIC) provides all of the tournament news and downloadable games for top
level OTB play from Mark Crowther. For 25 years providing the most up-to-date games from tournaments around the world.
For namy years this was the only free source for the CC player to download a current DB.
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The United States Chess Center. Mostly dedicated to
academic chess with some interesting ideas for chess education. |
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The CJA publishes a quarterly journal and conducts the
annual competition for the best chess journalism for the year. This web site
provides information on the organization, how to join, sample magazine articles
and resources for the working chess journalist. |
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Opportunities for live internet play, books, game archives
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| lichess.org |
All the features of the non-profit lichess playing site are always free to all and they do not run ads.
Even Magnus Carlsen sometimes plays there. Their TOOLS feature a great opening explorer with a nice database and the latest Stockfish. If you import a position into their opening explorer with less than 8 pieces a 7-man endgame tablebase appears that works great!
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USA Correspondence Chess Rating Lists
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| ICCF Rating List |
ICCF Rating List.
The full ICCF rating list is available interactively on the ICCF Webserver with search options
by player name, country, title, rating period, etc. So for instance you can search for and download
the current ICCFUS rating list.
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| CCLA Rating List |
CCLA Rating List
This is a rating list for the Correspondence Chess League of America
(CCLA) covering the latest 2-month period. It is arranged in alphabetical
order with links to quickly find the pertinent area of the list.
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| USCF Rating List |
USCF Rating List
This takes you to the Top 100 ratings lists for both Correspondence and OTB players.
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