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   AMICI SUMUS         VERSION 1.00            *            1 January 1996
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1) Play and Control
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   A) Games shall be played in accordance with the FIDE Laws of Chess where
      applicable.
   B) A Tournament Controller shall be appointed who shall be responsible for
      the conduct of the tournament and progress of the games.
   C) By entering an email match or tournament, the player makes a commitment
      to maintain email access for the duration of the tournament. If a player
      should lose email access and is unable - for whatever reason - to
      re-establish email access within 30 days, he will be considered having
      withdrawn from the tournament.

2) Transmissions
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   A) Moves shall be numbered and
   B) sent by email messages using an official form
   C) in the international numeric or a mutually agreed notation
   D) as plain ASCII messages
   E) bearing the complete name and email address of the sender and
   F) a progressive transmission of the entire gamescore and confirmation
      of the date on which the opponent's latest message was sent (the
      "mailing date")
   G) The sender shall record on the message
   H) the date on which the message was received, and
   I) the anticipated date of the reply.
   J) Failing this, reasonable dates shall be assumed by the recipient and
      notified with the reply move.
   K) When the anticipated date does not agree with the actual mailing date,
      this shall be corrected by the recipient and the sender informed with
      the reply move.
   L) The normal accepted time of the email transmission is one day. If a
      longer transmission time is declared, it may be referred to the
      Controller for a ruling. The time used for the move [cf para 6D] and
      accumulated time for the game shall also be recorded.

3) Failure to Reply
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   A) A player who wishes to take more than 12 days for a move must send
      a notice to his opponent, with carbon copy to the Controller. If not,
      his time is doubled from the 12th day.
   B) Should there be no reply to any move (or notice as per 3 A or about
      leave) within 14 days, the full details shall be repeated with carbon
      copy to the Controller.
   C) If no reply is received after a further 14 days, the player shall
      inform the Controller without delay, and wait for his decision.

4) Moves and Continuations
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   A) No legal move shall be retracted after posting - clerical errors are
      binding if they are legal moves. The correct repetition of the opponent's
      latest move is necessary for the sender's own move to be valid.
   B) Illegible or illegal moves shall be referred back to the sender for
      immediate correction but without any obligation to move the piece in
      question.
   C) A message posted without a move shall be treated as an illegible move.
   D) The omission or addition of chess indications (such as "check",
      "captures", "en passant") is without significance.
   E) Proposals of conditional continuations are binding until the recipient
      makes a different move from that proposed.
   F) Any accepted continuation move shall be correctly repeated with the
      reply.
   G) When no reply is made to an accepted conditional continuation it shall
      be treated as an illegible move.

5) Records and Reports
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   A) All the transmissions in their original form from the opponent concerning
      the game and a record of the moves and dates shall be kept until the end
      of the tournament and sent to the Controller upon request.
   B) If a player does not answer enquiries from the Controller, that player
      may be deemed to have withdrawn from the tournament.
   C) Changes of permanent postal and/or email address must be notified to
      the Controller and opponents.
   D) The Controller must be notified immediately of any disagreement between
      competitors about the game.
   E) A player must notify the Controller by the fastest available means
      (Phone, telegram, fax, etc.) of any substantial period of hardware or
      software failure which affects the receipt and/or transmission of the
      moves.

6) Time Allowed and Penalties
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   A) Each competitor is allowed 40 days for every 10 moves.
   B) The time limit may be exceeded once.
   C) Time saved shall be carried forward.
   D) The time used for each move is the difference in days between the date
   of reception of the opponent's latest move and the mailing date
   of the reply.
   E) Time is not counted for accepted "if" (conditional) moves.
   F) A penalty of five days shall be added to the time of a player who
      sends an illegible or illegal move, or incorrectly repeats the opponent's
      latest move.
   G) If the Controller dismisses a claim as being unfounded, he may impose a
      penalty.
   H) Games in which no move has been sent for 42 days and neither player has
      made a claim according to para. 3C may be scored as 0-0.

7) Time Exceeding
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   A) Claims that the time limit has been exceeded shall be sent to the
      Controller with full details.
   B) At the same time, the opponent shall be informed by a message with
      carbon copy to the Controller.
   C) Any protest shall be sent to the Controller within 14 days of recei-
      ving the message, or the claim will be deemed to be conceded.
   D) The Controller shall inform both players of the decision. If the Con-
      troller upholds a first claim, a new count of the opponent's time shall
      begin on the date the message about the claim was sent.
   E) A competitor who has exceeded the time allowed for the second time
      shall forfeit the game.
   F) If the Controller dismisses a claim as being unfounded, he may impose a
      penalty.

8) Leave
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   A) Each competitor may claim up to a total of 30 days leave during each
      calendar year.
   B) Players taking leave must inform their opponents and the Controller
      in advance.
   C) In addition, the Controller may grant up to 30 days additional leave
      per annum which in exceptional circumstances may be back-dated.

9) Withdrawal
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   In the event of withdrawal or death, the Controller shall decide whether
   all the games shall be annulled or the remaining games adjudicated or
   scored as losses.

10) Adjudication
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   A) If no result has been agreed by the date set for close of play, both
      competitors shall submit to the Controller within 30 days, a record of 
     the moves played, preferrably in PGN (Portable Game Notation), or in 
     ChessBase format, or in plain ASCII.
   B) a statement claiming either a win or a draw which may be supported
      by analysis, submitted preferrably in PGN or ChessBase format.
   C) Competitors not wishing to submit analysis forfeit the right to appeal.
   D) The Controller shall notify the adjudicator's decision to both compe-
      titors indicating whether or not it is subject to appeal.

11) Adjudication Appeals
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   A) Any appeal against the adjudicator's decision must be mailed to the
      Controller within eight days of receiving the notification,
   B) whereupon the Controller shall obtain a final ruling from another
      adjudicator and notify the result to both competitors.
   C) Additional analysis may be submitted with an appeal.

12) Reporting Results
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   A) As soon as possible after ending a game, a clear record of the moves
      played shall be sent to the Controller by both players, preferrably in
      PGN format.
   B) The result is officially recorded only after receipt of this record.
   C) Should no record be received from either player, the result may be
      scored as lost by both.

13) Decisions and Appeals
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   A) The Controller may penalise or disqualify competitors who break these
      rules and
   B) any matter not covered in them shall be decided by the Controller.
   C) Any competitor may appeal within 14 days of receiving a decision of
      the Controller to the appointed Arbiter (or, if no Arbiter is appointed,
      the Director of the Tournament Office concerned) whose ruling shall be
      final.

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"... The International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF) is the worldwide
organisation for correspondence chess (which is a game of chess in which moves
are delivered by post or any other form of transmission). The aims of ICCF are
to organise, develop and promote the study and practice of international corr-
espondence chess throughout the world."
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