The waiting list for the 6th FICGS correspondence chess championship is open !
Rules and details are available here
"FICGS world chess championship is a 5 stages tournament. The 8 players with the strongest established ratings at the start of the tournament play first a 3 stages (quarter-final, semi-final, final) knockout tournament. The others play a 3 stages single round-robin tournament. All games during the whole cycle are played in 30 days + 1 day / move. (...)"
The tournaments will start on February 1st, 2009.
The next FICGS championship final will be played in a 12 games match by Wolfgang Utesch, 2484 (DEU) and Xavier Pichelin, 2483 (FRA).
Have good games
Thibault