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 in favour of All India Correspondence Chess Federation to Shri Meherhomji

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 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	A.G.Nagaradjane, No. 40, 3rd Street, Kumaran Nagar Nagar, Lawspet, Pondicherry 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.Dabholkar 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 c/o Dr. Alok Saxena, D-21 Ajanta, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai 400 094 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 the printed version of the 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.(by email or at new address c/o Dr. Alok Saxena)

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. Most of the games in the 6th AICCF Championship (1506) are completed and the 7th Championship (1507) is announced in this Bulletin. 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 by email or by post c/o Dr. Alok Saxena, D-21 Ajanta, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai 400 094 Games for publication should be sent (preferably with notes) to Games Editor, Anil K. Anand, Email: anilanand_2940@yahoo.com, anand.anilkumar@gmail.com or by post C/o Dr. Alok Saxena

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: alokasaxena@rediffmail.com Phone: (022) 25587691. 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.

For more details refer to International Section (p. 53). Note that there are some ICCF tournaments like the Afro Asia Zone Tournaments where you can play for free (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 either of the ICCF Websites.

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.

To receive copies of AICCF Bulletins that you may have missed or to get free extra copies for friends, contact Shri E.G.Meherhomji

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