Alok Saxena
International Matters

ICCF Olympiad 20 Final After nearly three years’ of play ICCF Olympiad 20 is now finished. The results are:

1st place: Germany (team in board order) Matthias Kribben, Arno Nickel, Stephan Busemann, Reinhard Moll, Robert Bauer, Matthias Gleichmann. The captain for Germany was Matthias Kribben.

2nd place: Russia (team in board order) Aleksandr Surenovich Dronov, Aleksey Borisovich Voll, Sergey Konstantinovich Matyukhin, Vladimir Sergeevich Turkov, Evgeny Vasilievich Lobanov, Valery Ivanovich Lebedev. The captain for Russia was Sergey Konstantinovich Matyukhin.

3rd place: Spain (team in board order) David Lafarga Santorroman, Angel-Jeronimo Manso Gil, Carlos Cruzado Duenas, Manuel Jesus Bescos Anzano, Francisco de Asis Velilla Velasco, Eduardo Miras García. The captain for Spain was Inigo De Carlos Arregui.

Congratulations to all the successful teams.

ICCF Congress 2019 – Vilnius, Lithuania
18 August to 22 August 2019 Executive Board and Auditor Election Results
Monday, August 19, 2019: Results of Elections
The following votes were cast in the EB and Auditor election.

President: Eric Ruch 40 votes (elected)
General Secretary: Michael Millstone 40 votes (elected)
Finance Director: Jan Vosselman 43 votes (elected)
Marketing Director: Russell Sherwood 40 votes (elected)
Services Director: Austin Lockwood 44 votes (elected)

World Tournament Director

Jason Bokar: 22 votes
Frank Geider: 23 votes
Everdinand Knol: 1 vote (withdrawn)
Olli Ylönen: 1 vote

No candidate attracted more than 50% of the votes cast, therefore the second round of voting will be conducted according to the voting regulations. Everdinand Knol has withdrawn from the election.
The results of second round were as follows:

Jason Bokar: 18 votes
Frank Geider: 28 votes
Olli Ylönen: 0 votes

Frank Geider is duly elected as World Tournament Director for the 2020-2024 Executive Board.
Auditor

Ferdinand Burmeister: 12 votes
Paul Scott 23 votes (elected)

The proposals for merger of Zone 4 in world zone and elimination of ICCF zonal systems were defeated at ICCF congress. This is a good news for Zone 4 players as existing system continues and we were against having only two Zones: Europe and rest of the world. Also age and gender specific events will continue which is consistent with our stand. Mr. Knol who attended ICCF congress from Zone 4 will send Indian medals and certificates to us.

ICCF GM norm for K. Sasikiran
In the ICCF international title event Germany Grandmasters 06 -B the AICCF player Krishnan Sasikiran with ICCF ID 280330 has scored enough points to achieve a norm for ICCF-GM. The intimation was received on Aug. 1 2019. Congratulations. He has topped the table with score of 8.5/16. One of his wins from this tournament is given below:

IND-JPN 2018, India – Japan friendly international Match 2018

IND-JPN 2018, India – Japan Friendly Match 2018

CUN-IND 2018, Cuba - India Friendly Match 2018
India is losing with massive lead for Cuba with score-line of 39.5-11.5 in CUN-IND 2018, Cuba - India Friendly Match 2018 started on 1/10/ 2018 with only 10 games remaining unfinished. This event is organized by Salcedo Mederos, Pablo. TD for this event is Hernández Molina, David E. One of the Indian players, Arghyadip Das’ winning game is given below:

AA/C16/Final, 16th Africa Asia Zonal Championship Final

AA/C15/Final, 15th Africa Asia Zonal Championship Final
CCM Akkaraju, Sailesh Kumar has scored 3.5/7 and is at present 5th in the table.

One of his wins from this event is given below:

Title Received
Dr. Alok Saxena has received an ICCF CCE (Correspondence Chess Expert) title. R.K.Chauhan has qualified for ICCF CCE title.

ICCF 22nd CC Olympiad Prelim
The tournament will start on January 13th, 2020.
Details are to be found on ICCF site.
Entries were received upto 15th October 2019.
The 6 players selected for the Indian team are required to deposit fees Rs. 1300/- to AICCF account.