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° Years Champion Runner-up
01. 1950–1953[3] Cecil Purdy Harald Malmgren
02. 1956–1959[4] Viacheslav Ragozin Lucius Endzelins
03. 1959–1962[5] Albéric O'Kelly de Galway Piotr Dubinin
04. 1962–1965[6] Vladimir Zagorovsky Georgy Borisenko
05. 1965–1968[7] Hans Berliner Jaroslav Hybl
06. 1968–1971[8] Horst Rittner Vladimir Zagorovsky
07. 1972–1976[9] Yakov Estrin Jozef Boey
08. 1975–1980[10] Jørn Sloth Vladimir Zagorovsky
09. 1977–1983[11] Tõnu Õim Fritz Baumbach
10. 1978–1984[12] Victor Palciauskas Juan Morgado
11. 1983–1989[13] Fritz Baumbach Gennadi Nesis
12. 1984–1991[14] Grigory Sanakoev Josef Franzen
13. 1989–1998[15] Mikhail Umansky Eric Bang
14. 1994–2000[16] Tõnu Õim Ove Ekebjaerg
15. 1996–2002[17] Gert Jan Timmerman Joop van Oosterom
16. 1999–2004[18] Tunç Hamarat Rudolf Maliangkay
17. 2002–2007[19] Ivar Bern Wolfgang Rohde
18. 2003–2005[20] Joop van Oosterom Hans Elwert
19. 2004–2007[21] Christophe Léotard Frank Gerhardt
20. 2004–2011[22] Pertti Lehikoinen Stefan Winge
21. 2005–2008[23] Joop van Oosterom Alexander Ugge
22. 2007–2010[24] Aleksandr Dronov Jürgen Bücker
23. 2007–2010[25] Ulrich Stephan[26] Thomas Winckelmann
24. 2009–2011[27] Marjan Šemrl[28] Hans-Dieter Wunderlich
25. 2009–2013[29] Fabio Finocchiaro[30] Richard Hall
26. 2010–2014[31] Ron Langeveld[32] Florin Serban
27. 2011–2014[33] Aleksandr Dronov Matthias Kribben
28. 2013–2016[34] Leonardo Ljubičić Horacio Neto
29. 2015–2018[35] Aleksandr Dronov Jacek Oskulski
30. 2017–2019[36] Andrey Kochemasov Enver Efendiyev
Detlef Buse
Fred Kunzelmann
31. 2019–2022[37] Ron Langeveld
Christian Muck
Fabian Stanach		 N/A
32. 2020–2022[38] Jon Edwards Michel Lecroq
Sergey Adolfovich Osipov
Horácio Neto
33. 2022–2025[39] Javier Ros Padilla
Angel Acevedo Villalba
Tansel Turgut
Olaf Hesse
Valery Aleksandrov
Pavel Sváček
Ivan Panitevsky
Mikhail Churkin
Tiziano Mosconi
Daniel M. Fleetwood		 N/A

Ladies World Champions

N° Years Champion Runner-up
01. 1968–1972[40] Olga Rubtsova Gertrude Schoisswohl
02. 1972–1977[41] Lora Jakovleva Olga Rubtsova
03. 1978–1984[42] Ljuba Kristol Merike Rotova
04. 1984–1992[43] Liudmila Belavenets Nina Orlova
05. 1993–1998[44] Ljuba Kristol Ingrida Priedite
06. 2000–2005[45] Alessandra Riegler Maja Zelcic
07. 2002–2006[46] Olga Sukhareva Mary Jones
08. 2007–2010[47] Olga Sukhareva Marie Bazantová
09. 2011–2014[48] Irina Perevertkina Maria Lisitcina
10. 2014–2017[49] Irina Perevertkina Tetiana Moyseenko
11. 2017–2020[50] Irina Perevertkina Vilma Dambrauskaitè
Tetiana Moyseenko
11. 2020–2023[51] Irina Perevertkina Dawn L. Williamson
Tetiana Yurchuk
Victoria Schweer
Luz Marina Tinjacá Ramirez

ICCF World Cup

Nr. Years Champion
01. 1973–1977 Karl Maeder[52]
02. 1977–1983 Gennadi Nesis[53]
03. 1981–1986 Nikolai Rabinovich[54]
04. 1984–1989 Albert Popov[55]
5A. 1987–1994 Alexandr Frolov[56]
5B. 1987–1994 Gert Timmerman[57]
06. 1994–1999 Olita Rause[58]
07. 1994–2001 Alexei Lepikhov[59]
08. 1998–2002 Horst Staudler[60]
09. 1998–2001 Edgar Prang[61]
10. 2001–2005 Frank Schroder[62]
11. 2008–2011 Reinhardt Moll[63]
12E 2005–2007 Reinhardt Moll[64]
12P 2009–2013 Matthias Gleichmann[65]
13. 2009–2012 Reinhardt Moll[66]
14. 2009–2012 Reinhardt Moll[67]
15. 2012–2015 Klemen Sivic[68]
16. 2013–2016 Uwe Nogga[69]
17. 2014–2017 Matthias Gleichmann[70]
18. 2015–2019[71] Reinhard Moll
Stefan Ulbig
19. 2014–2016[72] Thomas Herfurth
20. 2017–2020[73] Sergey Kishkin
21. 2019–2021[74] Matthias Gleichmann
22. 2021–2023[75] Matthias Gleichmann
Dmitry Viktorovich Morozov

ICCF Chess 960 World Cup

Nr. Years Champion
01. 2014–2015 Fabian Stanach[76]
02. 2015–2016 Darko Babič[77]
03. 2016–2018 Jean Banet[78]
04. 2018–2019 Ivan Panitevsky[79]
05. 2019–2021 Aleksey Voll[80]
06. 2020–2022[81] Aleksey Voll
07. 2020–2021[82] Evgeny Tsygankov
08. 2021–2023[83] Paul Muljadi
Tudor Ristea
09. 2022–2023[84] Viktor Aleksandrovich Pavlov
Daniel A. Weber-Widmer
Vladimir Dobroselskiy
Igor Korovnik
Antonio Sánchez Ródenas
Aleksey Voll
Dmitry Viktorovich Morozov
Norbert Lukas
10. 2023–2024[85] Alberto Pérez López
Hans-Christian Lykke

See also

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