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Welcome to the 4th English Correspondence Chess Championship. There has been a total of 54 entries for this Championship placed into a final, two semi-finals and one preliminary group. Average Rating for Final: 2373.

Tie-Breaks: Tie-breaks will be resolved in the following order of priority:
a) number of wins by each tied player in the tournament;
b) points evaluation by the Sonneborn-Berger-System;
c) results of the tied players against each other.
If players are still tied after all relevant tie-breaking procedures have been used, the players will be considered equal.

Any Adjudications required at the End Date will follow EFCC Adjudication procedures (and not ICCF). See here: http://efcchess.org.uk/efccAdjudicationProcedure.html

Prizes: Winner will receive £300 together with an engraved trophy for retention.
Runner-up will receive £150.
Third place will receive £100.
Fourth place will receive £50.

Qualifiers for the 5th ECCC Championship Final:
a) The winner and runner-up of both Semi-Finals of the 4th ECCC shall be entitled to enter. This entry cannot be deferred and must be used in the following event or it is void.
b) Those players who finished in 7th place or above in the 4th ECCC Championship Final.
c) The remaining places in the 5th ECCC Championship Final will be allocated at the absolute discretion of the Tournament Sub-Committe

This is a server event.
The start date was 3/5/2023.
The end date is 12/31/2024.
ICCF standard time control 10 moves in 40 days with doubling after 20 days is used.
If a player exceeds allowed thinking time in any way, the player will automatically be scored with a loss. Under some circumstances all of the player’s games will subsequently be cancelled (if not already rated).
28 days of leave per year are available to each player.
Special leave can be requested from the TD.
This tournament allows claims based on the seven piece tablebase.
Draw offers are restricted to one offer per player every 10 moves (called the ten moves draw rule).
Ties are broken by the Baumbach tie breaking rule (see ICCF rule 1.3.4.2).
If needed, adjudicators will be selected by the server.
Other participants can see the games only when they are finished, and at least 10 games are finished in the event.
The public can see the games only when they are finished, and at least 10 games are finished in the event.
This event is organized by Grayland, Stan J..