10th WebChess Open
Wednesday, April 9, 2025: Tournament Announcement
ICCF is delighted to announce the start of the 10th WebChess Open tournament on the server.
This announcement is posted on the ICCF website and distributed to all national federations.
Working in collaboration with ICCF, the Non-Title Tournament Commissioner, Giorgio Ruggeri Laderchi, will organize the tournament.
The WebChess Open Tournament is a tournament open to all correspondence chess players worldwide, with or without any previous ICCF experience.
The tournament is played over three rounds (preliminary, semi-final, and final). Winners from each group in each round advance to the next round.
After tie-breaking, if necessary, a small number of best placed 2nd place players will qualify for the final semi-final stage.
The preliminaries will start on 15th June 2025.
The semi-finals will start in June 2027 (sooner if all preliminary groups are completed).
The final will start in June 2029 (sooner if all semi-final groups are completed).
The semi-finals and the final will be played with Silli System, if necessary.
All games will be played by webserver with the triple block system.
Time control will be Triple Block (Duration of Tournament: 700 days; Initial Clock: 50 days; Initial Bank: 50 days; Increment: 5 days). Please note –
- in the preliminaries and in the semi-final without guaranteed time
- in the final with guaranteed time.
All games will be rated with title norms possible.
Title norms are not available in the preliminary round.
Entry Fee
The entry fee is 9 euros by direct entry, or contact your federation for details of the fee you will pay by entering through the federation.
Entries
Multiple entries are allowed.
Although the number of preliminary groups each player may enter is unlimited, no player will qualify for more than two semifinal groups (or one semifinal group, if played with Silli System) or more than one place in the final.
Registration
New players to ICCF can enter 1 section for free. They have to register directly at www.iccf.com. All extra entries should be paid if they wish to enter more than one section. They should send their contact information: name, email address, and country to Giorgio Ruggeri Laderchi / NTTC (nttc.iccf@gmail.com).
Players may use Direct Entry (DE) or registration via the national federation (MF).
[Rule 1.3.1] Any promotion to a higher section or (other-than-norm) prize or event-related title in an ICCF event requires a plus score from all non-cancelled games, no matter the final placement in the completed section (that is, no matter if first, second, third or fourth place).
Registration Deadline
The closing date for all entries is 31st May 2025.
After that date any registrations received by the tournament organizer will only be confirmed so that groups may be balanced.
All chess players are heartily invited to enter this tournament, both for the enjoyment of games and for friendly contact/communication with players worldwide.
National federation delegates are asked to give tournament-wide publicity to their players.
Amici sumus,
Uwe Staroske
World Tournament Director
Giorgio Ruggeri Laderchi
Non-Title Tournament Commissioner