World Correspondence Chess Championship

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]

N°YearsChampionRunner-up
01.1950–1953[3]Australia Cecil PurdySweden Harald Malmgren
02.1956–1959[4]Soviet Union Viacheslav RagozinAustralia Lucius Endzelins
03.1959–1962[5]Belgium Albéric O'Kelly de GalwaySoviet Union Piotr Dubinin
04.1962–1965[6]Soviet Union Vladimir ZagorovskySoviet Union Georgy Borisenko
05.1965–1968[7]United States Hans BerlinerCzechoslovakia Jaroslav Hybl
06.1968–1971[8]Germany Horst RittnerSoviet Union Vladimir Zagorovsky
07.1972–1976[9]Soviet Union Yakov EstrinBelgium Jozef Boey
08.1975–1980[10]Denmark Jørn SlothSoviet Union Vladimir Zagorovsky
09.1977–1983[11]Soviet Union Tõnu ÕimEast Germany Fritz Baumbach
10.1978–1984[12]United States Victor PalciauskasArgentina Juan Morgado
11.1983–1989[13]East Germany Fritz BaumbachSoviet Union Gennadi Nesis
12.1984–1991[14]Soviet Union Grigory SanakoevSlovakia Josef Franzen
13.1989–1998[15]Soviet Union Mikhail UmanskyDenmark Eric Bang
14.1994–2000[16]Estonia Tõnu ÕimDenmark Ove Ekebjaerg
15.1996–2002[17]Netherlands Gert Jan TimmermanNetherlands Joop van Oosterom
16.1999–2004[18]Turkey Tunç HamaratNetherlands Rudolf Maliangkay
17.2002–2007[19]Norway Ivar BernGermany Wolfgang Rohde
18.2003–2005[20]Netherlands Joop van OosteromGermany Hans Elwert
19.2004–2007[21]France Christophe LéotardGermany Frank Gerhardt
20.2004–2011[22]Finland Pertti LehikoinenSweden Stefan Winge
21.2005–2008[23]Netherlands Joop van OosteromCanada Alexander Ugge
22.2007–2010[24]Russia Aleksandr DronovGermany Jürgen Bücker
23.2007–2010[25]Germany Ulrich Stephan[26]Germany Thomas Winckelmann
24.2009–2011[27]Slovenia Marjan Šemrl[28]Germany Hans-Dieter Wunderlich
25.2009–2013[29]Italy Fabio Finocchiaro[30]England Richard Hall
26.2010–2014[31]Netherlands Ron Langeveld[32]Romania Florin Serban
27.2011–2014[33]Russia Aleksandr DronovGermany Matthias Kribben
28.2013–2016[34]Croatia Leonardo LjubičićPortugal Horacio Neto
29.2015–2018[35]Russia Aleksandr DronovPoland Jacek Oskulski
30.2017–2019[36]Russia Andrey KochemasovRussia Enver Mikhailovich Efendiyev
Germany Detlef Buse
Germany Fred Kunzelmann
31.2019–2022[37]Netherlands Ron Langeveld
Austria Christian Muck
Poland Fabian Stanach		N/A
32.2020–2022[38]United States Jon EdwardsFrance Michel Lecroq
Russia Sergey Adolfovich Osipov
Portugal Horácio Neto

Ladies World Champions
First World Championship (1968/71)
N°YearsChampionRunner-up
01.1968–1972[39]Soviet Union Olga RubtsovaAustria Gertrude Schoisswohl
02.1972–1977[40]Soviet Union Lora JakovlevaSoviet Union Olga Rubtsova
03.1978–1984[41]Israel Ljuba KristolSoviet Union Merike Rotova
04.1984–1992[42]Soviet Union Liudmila BelavenetsSoviet Union Nina Orlova
05.1993–1998[43]Israel Ljuba KristolLatvia Ingrida Priedite
06.2000–2005[44]Italy Alessandra RieglerCroatia Maja Zelcic
07.2002–2006[45]Russia Olga Mikhailovna SukharevaEngland Mary Jones
08.2007–2010[46]Russia Olga Mikhailovna SukharevaCzech Republic Marie Bazantová
09.2011–2014[47]Russia Irina Vladimirovna PerevertkinaRussia Maria Lisitcina
10.2014–2017[48]Russia Irina Vladimirovna PerevertkinaUkraine Tetiana Moyseenko
11.2017–2020[49]Russia Irina Vladimirovna PerevertkinaLithuania Vilma Dambrauskaitè

ICCF World Cup
Nr.YearsChampion
01.1973–1977Germany Karl Maeder[50]
02.1977–1983Soviet Union Gennadi Nesis[51]
03.1981–1986Soviet Union Nikolai Rabinovich[52]
04.1984–1989Soviet Union Albert Popov[53]
5A.1987–1994Ukraine Alexandr Frolov[54]
5B.1987–1994Netherlands Gert Timmerman[55]
06.1994–1999Latvia Olita Rause[56]
07.1994–2001Ukraine Alexei Lepikhov[57]
08.1998–2002Germany Horst Staudler[58]
09.1998–2001Germany Edgar Prang[59]
10.2001–2005Germany Frank Schroder[60]
11.2008–2011Germany Reinhardt Moll[61]
12E2005–2007Germany Reinhardt Moll[62]
12P2009–2013Germany Matthias Gleichmann[63]
13.2009–2012Germany Reinhardt Moll[64]
14.2009–2012Germany Reinhardt Moll[65]
15.2012–2015Slovenia Klemen Sivic[66]
16.2013–2016Germany Uwe Nogga[67]
17.2014–2017Germany Matthias Gleichmann[68]

ICCF Chess 960 World Cup
Nr.YearsChampion
01.2014–2015Poland Fabian Stanach[69]
02.2015–2016Slovenia Darko Babič[70]
03.2016–2018France Jean Banet[71]
04.2018–2019Russia Ivan Panitevsky[72]
05.2019–2021Russia Aleksey Voll[73]

See also

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