Inter-Micronational Chess Federation

InterMicronational Chess Federation

Successor	World Micronational Chess Federation (claimed)
Founded	7 August 2010 (original) 7 August 2013 (re-establishment)
Founder	CJ Miller (original) Rigas Papadopoulos
Type	Chess federation
Official languages	English, Russian, Greek
Website	Website (recovered from Wayback Machine)

The Inter-Micronational Chess Federation, at one point known as the Micronational Chess Federation, was an intermicronational organisation intended to serve as the governing body of micronational chess. Initially founded in 2010 by CJ Miller, it was subsequently reinstated in 2013 by St.Charlian politician and future micronational world chess champion Rigas Papadopoulos.However, operations of the federation ceased by November 2015 as evidenced by the availability of its website for sale.

At one stage, the IMCF maintained a presence through a Chess.com club.

In 2023, the World Micronational Chess Federation was established, purporting to succeed the IMCF and take on the responsibility of organizing the Micronational World Chess Championship.

History

The Inter-Micronational Chess Federation was initially founded by CJ Miller of Safiria with the aim of establishing a governing body for the newly established Intermicronational Chess Tournament. However, just three days into the tournament, Safiria ceased activities, leading to the transfer of IMCF administration to the Tsarist Empire of Gishabrun. Despite this transfer, the IMCF subsequently became inactive once more.

In 2012, a successor organisation known as the Micronational Chess Federation emerged to govern micronational chess. The federation successfully hosted the 2012 Micronational Chess Championship, but eventually also ceased its operations.

In July 2013, Rigas Papadopoulos of St.Charlie became interested in micronational chess and undertook the re-establishment of the IMCF. With permission from Sovetus, the previous owner of the IMCF, Papadopoulos collaborated with Kuri Kabanov and Ben McKinlay to launch a new website for the federation. By 8 August 2013, following the completion of the website's development, the IMCF announced the commencement of the 2013 Micronational World Chess Championship.

On 7 October 2013, The IMCF announced that its website was temporarily inaccessible due to domain-related issues. On October 25 the organisation issued a new announcement stated that a domain had been purchased by Yaroslav Mar, who joined the IMCF's staff as the General Sponsor. The contents of the old website were transferred to the new domain, which quickly became operational. The IMCF has remained inactive since this period.

Micronational Chess Championships

The Micronational Chess Championship was the main tournament organized by the Inter-Micronational Chess Federation. The first two championships (in 2010 and in 2012) were held in single-knockout format. The third, in 2013, used a round-robin format.

After the 2010 championship, the tournament was renamed from Intermicronational Chess Championship to Micronational Chess Championship for the 2012 championship. The 2013 championship was the Micronational World Chess Championship.

Elo Ratings

Each incarnation of the Inter-Micronational Chess Federation used its own rating system.

The original Inter-Micronational Chess Federation used both ECF and Elo ratings.

The Micronational Chess Federation, which hosted the 2012 Micronational Chess Championship, used it's own rating system. Only three games were rated with this system, two games from the first round of the 2012 Micronational Chess Championship and a friendly match.

The reformed Inter-Micronational Chess Federation used a modified elo rating system. Unlike the rating systems of previous federations, this time rating players rather than nations.