MEMBER SERVICES

New Membership: Rs. 50/- (Entrance Fee) plus either Rs. 100/- (2 years) or Rs. 600/- (Life) or Rs. 1500/- (Donor)
Membership Renewal: Rs. 100/- for 2 years
Send: Draft/Mumbai cheque/MO to Shri Meherhomji. For address, see Membership Page

AICCF Postal Tournaments: Type-A (7 player, single game) and Type-B (4 player, double game). No fees. Send as many self-addressed stamped envelopes as tournaments you want to play to Shri Meherhomji. For address, see Membership Page
. Please make use of the form given on the inside back cover of the printed bulletin.
AICCF Email Tournaments: Both type A and B are started from time to time. Send your request to Shri Santhosh Paul by email at earalil@gmail.com

Tournament Directors (TDs): There are different TDs for different tournaments. When you have a claim, dispute or query make sure you contact the TD allocated for your tournament (as mentioned in the start list of your tournament). Here are the contact details of Tournament Directors:

Shri M.B.Mulla
Hill View,
23 N.S.Patkar Marg,
Mumbai 400 007
(022)23803951, (022)23804523
Email: mbmulla@rediffmail.com, mbmulla@gmail.com
A.G.Nagaradjane
No. 40, 3rd Street
Kumaran Nagar Nagar,
LawspetPondicherry 605 008
No email
Shri E.G.Meherhomji
Brahmand Phase II,
A-6, G-3, Azad Nagar
Sandoz Baug P.O.Thane (West) 400 607
Phone: (022)25896941
Email: pourushah@vsnl.net
P.S.Dabolkar
G-1 Radha Sahniwas C.H.S.
Damodar Nagari,
Chendani Village
Thane (East) 400 603
Phone: (022)25433703
Email: psd1959@yahoo.com
Dr. A.Chatterjee
11 Shriniketan, Anushakti Nagar
Mumbai 400 094
Phone: (022) 55749097
Email: DrAmbar@gmail.com
Santhosh M. Paul
Earalil Market Road
Convent Jn,
Ernakulam, Kochi 682011
Email: earalil@gmail.com

Adjudication: When the tournament you are playing in reaches the adjudication date you MUST send a complete report to the TD following the form included in the inside back cover of this bulletin.

AICCF Ratings: New members start with an initial rating of 800. Thereafter the rating is incremented/decremented according to results. Both postal and email results count for AICCF Ratings. The rating calculation method is provided in the Tournament Rules sent to new members. In case of any doubt or discrepancy in your rating, please get in touch first with the Tournament Director (to correct wrong or missing results) and thereafter contact Dr. A.Chatterjee.

AICCF Championships: The AICCF championships (15-player) are conducted from time to time. Qualified players are the current champion, players at the top of the Rating Chart and 2 donors. Presently the 6th AICCF Championship (1506) is in progress and starting the 7th Championship is being planned. S.K.Somani of Indore is the current AICCF Champion.

AICCF Bulletin: Submit articles for publication, Letters to the Editor, Comments etc. to Dr. A.Chatterjee. Games intended for publication should be sent (preferably with notes) to the Games Editor, Anil K.Anand, Email: anilanand_2940@yahoo.com or anand.anilkumar@gmail.com (see Games Section for more information)

AICCF Websites
www.geocities.com/aiccf General information
Recent AICCF Bulletins
Email address of members
www.geocities.com/ganesh_chess_aiccf AICCF Games display
www.aiccfindia.com Under construction by Nagesh J.
www.geocities.com/iccf2004 ICCF Congress, Mumbai 2004

International Section: To play in ICCF Tournaments you must become a member of the International Section of AICCF (fees Rs. 300/- for 2 years or one time donation of Rs. 1500/-, to be sent to Shri Meherhomji). For ICCF tournaments contact Dr Alok Saxena, D-21 Ajanta, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai 400094 Email: . One can play by email or webserver (even by post, though this is not common now). The fees for the requested tournament must also be sent to Shri Meherhomji.

Webserver/Email/Postal Individual Tourneys 7-player8 CHF (Rs. 280/-)
Webserver/Email/Postal Individual Tourneys 11-player13 CHF (Rs. 455/-)
Webserver/Email/Postal Master Norm Tourneys40 CHF (Rs. 1400/-)
Webchess Open12 CHF (Rs. 420/-)

For more details refer to International Section.
Note that there are some ICCF tournaments like the Afro Asia Zone Tournaments where you can play for free (contact Med Samraoui, Zonal Director msamraoui@iccf.com, see website (c) below).One can also play in Team Tournaments such as the ICCF Olympiad (Email-Postal or Webserver) and Friendly International Tournaments, both of which are ICCF rated. Announcements regarding these are sent to members by email. It is important to send your email address to Dr. Saxena so that he can keep you updated on these team events.

Note that ICCF allocates a unique ID number to you when you play in your first ICCF event. You can locate this ID by searching at the ICCF Websites.

ICCF Websites
www.iccf.comwww.iccf-webchess.com
Afro-Asia Zone: www.iccf-europa.com/aa/index.htm

ICCF Ratings
ICCF ratings are entirely separate from AICCF ratings and are computed in a different way. Note however that games played in the AICCF Championships are also ICCF rated. An ICCF rating is given to participants only after he completes 12 games. This rating is considered provisional. A regular or fixed rating is given only after the completion of 30 games. You can find your ICCF rating at the ICCF websites mentioned above.

  • For general enquiries of any nature, contact Shri Meherhomji.
  • All payments (whether AICCF or ICCF related) must be sent to Shri Meherhomji. The method of payment is Bank Draft, Mumbai Cheque or Money Order. Cheques/Drafts must be in favour of “All India Correspondence Federation” and payable in Mumbai.
  • For further information about International Tournaments contact Dr. Alok Saxena.
  • To receive copies of AICCF Bulletins that you may have missed or to get free extra copies for friends, contact Dr. A.Chatterjee.

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