It is with great pleasure that we watch the site growing in success, attracting more visitors on a daily basis. We are sure it will continue to draw the attention of the media, and indeed will eventually find a backer for a significant prize fund. We are confident we can give chess a better image - with your help!

Unfortunately, we have recently noted voting irregularities: a photo of a selected contender is rated 2700, whilst the ratings of all her nearest rivals are negatively skewed by rating them all at 2000. As a result, we are in a situation when the ratings of the top 25 differ only minimally, and are obviously underestimated. Therefore, we have been compelled to establish a monitoring system behind the voting, allowing us to check for these unfair tactics.

As of today, we will negate these votes, which the Arbiter's Board will consider prejudiced. In case of repeated mallicious voting, the user will be warned by e-mail. Should they persist, we will block them from registering on our site by blocking their IP address. We are also compelled to impose a minimal censorship, both in comments on the photos and at the forum. We cannot and will not tolerate direct insults aimed at the participants.

We hope you both understand and agree with this (unfortunately forced) measure. You are, after all, certainly free in your choice and preferences! However, we are sure you will agree, that voting as described above, kills the very idea of the competition! In the long run, all we are interested in is the successful development of the WCBC, and for this we must count on your help!

We hope this does not discourage the participants; indeed, your new photos are needed more than ever, to give the competition a new impulse and to make the top ten more dynamic! To this end, the board have also agreed another innovation; in order to help each participant better express her individuality, we suggest you answer ten questions of the questionnaire in one of the three languages (English, French or Russian). Your questionnaire will be presented along with your photos and may be rated according to the regulations of the WCBC.

From April 1st, we will publish the official WCBC Top 10 list monthly. Another idea we hope to implement is a series of online video interviews with the leaders of the list! Such interviews will allow the registered members of our site to pose any questions to the participant online. We hope that with your continued support, that we will realize this idea.

Keep checking back for information on our forthcoming plans, and remember, chess is fun! Remain with us!

The Arbiter's Board

Dear registered members and guests of 1WCBC!

First of all we would like to express our gratitude for your interest in and enthusiasm for our newly opened competition.

We do believe this is only the beginning, and that many more pleasant surprises await you…

Nevertheless, we would like to draw your attention to some very important aspects of the regulations:

1. Although most of the female chessplayers represented here are very willing to take a part in our competition, not all of them are. Therefore, we kindly ask you not to send us photos without the consent of the person involved. Unfortunately several pictures have had to be removed from the site because of this reason.

2. Copyright. We kindly ask you to come to an agreement with copyright holders before sending us pictures. The unresolved copyright situation has led to the withdrawal of some photos.

3. Our contest is an individual one – therefore we urge you to send us photos in which only one person is present. Group photos will be rejected.

4. To the participants who are absent from the FIDE rating list:
We kindly ask you to state precisely in your Control Panel which chess tournaments you have participated in. Thank you in advance!

5. To the female chess players and © holders, whose photos were submitted to our site without their consent, we would like to inform you that we will remove any such pictures immediately upon your demand. Please just send an e-mail to blitzbrothers@gmail.com.

In any case, we will do our utmost to avoid any similar incidents.

Thank you very much for understanding.

1WCBC

Дорогие зарегистрированные пользователи и гости 1WCBC!

Прежде всего, хотим выразить благодарность за проявленные Вами интерес и энтузиазм по отношению к недавно открытому нами проекту.

Мы верим, что это только начало, поскольку заготовили для Вас еще массу приятных сюрпризов…

Вместе с тем, хотели бы остановиться на некоторых аспектах работы сайта:

1. Очень многие, но не все шахматистки, собираются участвовать в нашем конкурсе. Поэтому, мы убедительно просим Вас не присылать фотографии без согласования с теми, кто на них изображен. К сожалению, некоторые фотографии по этой причине были нами удалены.

2. Авторские права. Просим Вас согласовывать присылаемые Вами фотографии с теми, кому могут принадлежать на них авторские права. Неулаженность вопросов с обладателем © также стала причиной удаления некоторых фотографий.

3. Наш конкурс носит индивидуальный характер - именно поэтому мы убедительно просим присылать нам фотографии, на которой изображена только одна потенциальная конкурсантка.

4. Конкурсантки, отсутствующие в рейтинг-листе FIDE - отдельная просьба уточнить в описании (Control Panel это позволяет) в каких шахматных турнирах Вы участвовали. Спасибо заранее!

5. Отдельно обращаемся к шахматисткам и обладателям авторских прав, чьи фотографии были присланы на наш сайт без их согласия - мы удаляем фотографии по первому Вашему требованию. Достаточно написать письмо blitzbrothers@gmail.com.

В любом случае, мы стараемся всячески избежать подобного рода инцидентов.

Спасибо за понимание!

1WCBC