THE ICCF CONGRESS 2004, MUMBAI

The ICCF Congress was the big event that we had all been preparing for. By now, all our members must have already read the reports about it on the various websites. (see http://www.geocities.com/aiccf, The Correspondence Chess Message Board, the US CC website, and the national federation websites of major ICCF member countries). Here we give a short report in pictures.


Opening Ceremony: (L to R) Ambar Chatterjee, Prasad Dalvi, Pedro Hegoburu, Josef Mrckvecka, Max Zanzeveli, Ruth Ann Fay and Med Samraoui


At the opening banquet: (L to R) N.G.Pandalai, N.R.Anil Kumar and P.M.Dalvi


Dr. Alok Saxena, T.Pawan Kumar, N.G.Pandalai and N.R.Anil Kumar a the opening banquet


Dr. and Mrs. Krishna Prabhakar at the opening banquet


Vikrant Chole vs. Per Söderberg in the blitz event


N.G.Pandalai vs. Alan Rawlings in the blitz event


IM Shekhar Sahu (Left) on Board 1 against Tunc Hamarat (CC World Champion) in the Local Team vs. ICCF Match. N.R.Anil Kumar (behind) played on Board 2 against Dr. Fritz Baumbach


Bhagyashree Thipsay in the exhibition match against Dr. Fritz Baumbach


Photo with a World Champion M.B.Mulla (Left) and P.S.Dabholkar (Right) with Dr. Fritz Baumbach at the Closing Banquet


(L to R) Alan Borwell, P.M.Dalvi and P.S.Dabholkar


GM P.M.Thipsay in the simul. as Dr. Alok Saxena thinks over his move


T.Pavan Kumar has a gift for GM Pravin Thipsay

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