Transmission banned by ICCF
Following the ICCF's policy, the Tournament Director of the 14th Olympiad Final asked me to stop the online transmission of my running games from this event.
Here is the announcement of the ICCF Executive Bord, which determinated the reaction of the TD:
Addition to the ICCF Code of Conduct Guidelines, Article 2
(as adopted by the ICCF Congress in Ostrava, 2003)
Provided that it is not stated otherwise in the tournament announcement and/or in the start documents, any player is only allowed to publish or submit for publishing on the internet or elsewhere any unfinished games or positions played by him/her under the conditions that:
- all his/her games in the tournament are already different from each other,
- the game (position) is demonstrated with a delay of at least 3 moves,
- the URL of the subject website is given,
- the date of the last update is mentioned,
- his/her opponents involved officially agrees with the live-publishing of their game and declare this to the Tournament Director.
The Tournament Director is not expected to check player's private websites regularly. However, if his/her attention is drawn to a violation of this guideline by another person, he shall investigate.
When a player violates this guideline for the first time, then the TD shall not apply any sanctions, but simply order the change of the status of the published game according to this guideline.
When a player violates this guideline for a second time in the same tournament, the player shall be penalised by 10 extra days added to his time of reflection in all games of the respective tournament.
When a player violates this guideline for a third time in the same tournament, the player shall be disqualified from this tournament and all his/her remaining unfinished games shall be scored as losses.
When a player violates this guideline repeatedly in various tournaments, the World Tournament Director can ban this player from ICCF play for 2 years.
The jurisdiction to deal with appeals concerning violations of this guideline is designated to the Appeals Commission (Other ICCF Rules).
This amended guideline is to be applied with immediate effect to all ICCF running and future tournaments.
AMICI SUMUS,
Josef Mrkvicka
ICCF President
Until the ICCF officials will be able to understand the importance of the CC advertisement made by showing online running CC games, I am needed to stop this online transmission.
Marius Ceteras, webmaster www.romanianchess.org