World Correspondence Chess Championship

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The World Correspondence Chess Championship determines the World Champion in correspondence chess. Men and women of any age are eligible to contest the title. The official World Correspondence Chess Championship is managed by the International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF).

The world championship comprises four stages: Preliminaries, Semi-Finals, Candidates' Tournament, and Final. ICCF tournament rules define which players can access each stage. The first-, second- and third-placed finishers from the previous Final, and the first- and second-placed finishers from the Candidates' Tournaments have access to the World Correspondence Chess Championship Final.

The ICCF also manages the Ladies World Correspondence Chess Championships, that comprises Semi-Finals and Final.

World Champions[]

Dates given are the period in which the final of the championship took place, as given on the ICCF website.[1][2]

Years Champion Runner-up
01. 1950–1953[3] Australia Cecil Purdy Sweden Harald Malmgren
02. 1956–1959[4] Soviet Union Viacheslav Ragozin Australia Lucius Endzelins
03. 1959–1962[5] Belgium Albéric O'Kelly de Galway Soviet Union
04. 1962–1965[6] Soviet Union Vladimir Zagorovsky Soviet Union Georgy Borisenko
05. 1965–1968[7] United States Hans Berliner Czechoslovakia
06. 1968–1971[8] Germany Horst Rittner Soviet Union Vladimir Zagorovsky
07. 1972–1976[9] Soviet Union Yakov Estrin Belgium Jozef Boey
08. 1975–1980[10] Denmark Jørn Sloth Soviet Union Vladimir Zagorovsky
09. 1977–1983[11] Soviet Union Tõnu Õim East Germany Fritz Baumbach
10. 1978–1984[12] United States Victor Palciauskas Argentina
11. 1983–1989[13] East Germany Fritz Baumbach Soviet Union
12. 1984–1991[14] Soviet Union Grigory Sanakoev Slovakia
13. 1989–1998[15] Soviet Union Mikhail Umansky Denmark
14. 1994–2000[16] Estonia Tõnu Õim Denmark
15. 1996–2002[17] Netherlands Gert Jan Timmerman Netherlands Joop van Oosterom
16. 1999–2004[18] Turkey Tunç Hamarat Netherlands
17. 2002–2007[19] Norway Ivar Bern Germany
18. 2003–2005[20] Netherlands Joop van Oosterom Germany
19. 2004–2007[21] France Christophe Léotard Germany
20. 2004–2011[22] Finland Pertti Lehikoinen Sweden
21. 2005–2008[23] Netherlands Joop van Oosterom Canada
22. 2007–2010[24] Russia Aleksandr Dronov Germany
23. 2007–2010[25] Germany Ulrich Stephan[26] Germany
24. 2009–2011[27] Slovenia Marjan Šemrl[28] Germany
25. 2009–2013[29] Italy Fabio Finocchiaro[30] England
26. 2010–2014[31] Netherlands Ron Langeveld[32] Romania
27. 2011–2014[33] Russia Aleksandr Dronov Germany
28. 2013–2016[34] Croatia Leonardo Ljubičić Portugal
29. 2015–2018[35] Russia Aleksandr Dronov Poland
30. 2017–2019[36] Russia Andrey Kochemasov Russia

Ladies World Champions[]

First World Championship (1968/71)
Years Champion Runner-up
01. 1968–1972[37] Soviet Union Olga Rubtsova Austria
02. 1972–1977[38] Soviet Union Lora Jakovleva Soviet Union Olga Rubtsova
03. 1978–1984[39] Israel Ljuba Kristol Soviet Union
04. 1984–1992[40] Soviet Union Liudmila Belavenets Soviet Union
05. 1993–1998[41] Israel Ljuba Kristol Latvia Ingrida Priedite
06. 2000–2005[42] Italy Alessandra Riegler Croatia
07. 2002–2006[43] Russia Olga Mikhailovna Sukhareva England
08. 2007–2010[44] Russia Olga Mikhailovna Sukhareva Czech Republic
09. 2011–2014[45] Russia Irina Vladimirovna Perevertkina Russia
10. 2014–2017[46] Russia Irina Vladimirovna Perevertkina Ukraine

ICCF World Cup[]

Nr. Years Champion
01. 1973–1977 Germany [47]
02. 1977–1983 Soviet Union [48]
03. 1981–1986 Soviet Union [49]
04. 1984–1989 Soviet Union [50]
5A. 1987–1994 Ukraine [51]
5B. 1987–1994 Netherlands Gert Timmerman[52]
06. 1994–1999 Latvia Olita Rause[53]
07. 1994–2001 Ukraine [54]
08. 1998–2002 Germany [55]
09. 1998–2001 Germany [56]
10. 2001–2005 Germany [57]
11. 2008–2011 Germany [58]
12E 2005–2007 Germany [59]
12P 2009–2013 Germany [60]
13. 2009–2012 Germany [61]
14. 2009–2012 Germany [62]
15. 2012–2015 Slovenia [63]
16. 2013–2016 Germany [64]
17. 2014–2017 Germany [65]

See also[]

References[]

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