Caribbean Tropical Sun 2025 Open

Monday, December 16, 2024: - announcement; start date March 30, 2025

The Cuban Correspondence Chess Federation (FECAP) are pleased to announce an International Tournament. Correspondence chess players from all countries are warmly invited to participate in the "Caribbean Tropical Sun 2025 International Tournament”

The Tournament will be played in a single phase using ICCF Rating List 2025/1 with 4 sections:

Section A for players with rating 2400 or higher

Section B for players with rating 2300 – 2399

Section C for players with rating between 2000 – 2299

Section D for players with rating 1999 or lower

The tournament will be played on the ICCF server at triple block time control with an appropriate tournament duration according to the average rating of each group: 350 days event, with 75 days initial bank and 1 day increment for the first 50 moves is used, no guaranteed time after move 50.

The tournament will be rated and valid to obtain the norms for ICCF titles in groups that meet all the conditions required by the ICCF.

Registered players grouped by rating will be allocated to groups of 11, 13 or 15 players in ranking order, so that all group members have a similar rating. The number of groups will depend on the number of registrations. Up to 2 registrations will be allowed, with the second registration the player will be paired in the group following the first group.

The start date of the tournament is March 30, 2025.

Registrations

The registrations and the payment of the fees for Cuban Tropical Sun International Tournament 2025 must be done by the DE system in the server of the ICCF opening the menu Cuba in New Events.

The registration fee is 9 €.

Inscriptions must be received no later than March 10, 2025.

Certificates

This tournament will award certificates to the top 3 in each group. The tiebreaker system will be: 1. Baumbach, 2. Sonnenborn-Berger, 3. the results of the players tied with each other and 4. the lowest rating at the start of the tournament.

Amici Sumus,

Giraldo Menéndez Rodríguez

FECAP President & ICCF Delegate Cuba