20th World Cup
Wednesday, November 6, 2013: final entries
Here is a summary on entries to ICCF World Cup 20.
We have received 1,001 entries from 816 players representing 55 countries.
722 entries were sent us via national federations, 279 entries were made using DE facility.
1,001 entries is a new record for server World Cups (for comparison, 14 Cup – 671 entries, 15 Cup – 639 entries, 17 Cup – 711 entries, 18 Cup –
845 entries).
Titled players (58): ICCF GM – 3, ICCF SIM – 20, ICCF IM – 31, ICCF LGM – 1, ICCF LIM – 1, FIDE GM – 1, FIDE FM – 1. The most number of titled players are from Germany (14), Russia (11) and Ukraine (4).
Top 10 rated players:
2571 Persson, Conny (Sweden, GM)
2566 Shkuro, Iuri (Ukraine, FIDE GM)
2505 Telepnev, Igor Viktorovich (Russia, SIM)
2503 Romanov, Sergey Anatolievich (Russia, SIM)
2497 Voiculescu, Costel (Romania, GM)
2451 Dunlop, Gordon (Australia)
2442 Guberna, Aleksandr Vladimirovich (Russia)
2439 Biedermann, Thomas (USA, SIM)
2432 Andriuschenko, Nikolay (Ukraine, IM)
2427 Rada, Hannes (Austria)
Number of entries by countries:
205 Russia
133 Germany
74 USA
52 Spain
47 Italy
39 Ukraine
39 England, France
35 Czech Republic, Poland
26 Netherlands
23 Romania
19 Brazil
16 Latvia
15 Austria
14 Switzerland
13 Denmark, Lithuania
12 Finland, Portugal, Scotland
10 Australia
9 Bulgaria, Sweden
8 Canada, Slovenia, Turkey
7 Argentina, Norway, Slovakia
4 Belgium, Chile, Croatia, Hungary, Japan, Luxembourg, Peru
3 Iceland, India, Tunisia
2 Belarus, Estonia, Isle of Man, Venezuela, Wales
1 Cape Verde, Cuba, Ecuador, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, South Africa
Pairings will be done in a few days. Start lists will be sent to the participants after all preliminary groups are created on the ICCF webserver. An official start date is November, 30.
I would like to send my warmest greetings to ICCF Non-Title Tournaments Comissioner Markus Hömske, ICCF webmaster Gino Figlio and all National Delegates for their help.
I would like to say thank you to all the players who joined the event and let us hold a new record.
Andrey Pavlikov, Central Tournament Leader of ICCF World Cup 20