Archive: Complete List of World Correspondence Chess Champions

Note: for PGN downloads, see Table III. below.


Table I. Complete List of World Correspondence Chess Champions
1	1950- 1953	Cecil J. S. Purdy	Australia	xtable
2	1956- 1959	Vyacheslav Ragozin	U.S.S.R.	xtable
3	1959- 1962	Alberic O'Kelly	Belgium	xtable
4	1962- 1965	Vladimir Zagarovsky	U.S.S.R.	xtable
5	1965- 1968	Hans Berliner	U.S.A.	xtable
6	1968- 1971	Horst Rittner	Germany	xtable
7	1971- 1976	Yakov Estrin	U.S.S.R.	xtable
8	1975- 1980	Jorn Sloth	Denmark	xtable
9	1977- 1983	Tonu Oim	Estonia	xtable
10	1978- 1984	Viktor V. Palciauskas	U.S.A.	xtable
11	1981- 1987	Fritz Baumbach	Germany	xtable
12	1984- 1990	Grigory Sanakoev	U.S.S.R.	xtable
13	1989- 1998	Mikhail Umansky	Russia	xtable
14	1994- 1999	Tonu Oim	Estonia	xtable
15	1996- 2002	Gert Jan Timmerman	Netherlands	xtable
16	1999- 2004	Tunc Hamarat	Austria	xtable
17	2002- 2007	Ivar Bern	Norway	xtable
18	2003- 2005	Joop VanOosterom	Netherlands	xtable
19	2004- 2007	Christophe Leotard	France	xtable
20	2004- 2011	Pertti Lehikoinen	Finland	xtable
21	2005- 2008	Joop VanOosterom	Netherlands	xtable
22	2007- 2010	Aleksandr Dronov	Russia	xtable
23	2007- 2011	Ulrich Stephan	Germany	xtable
24	2009- 2012	Marjan Semrl	Slovenia	xtable
25	2009- 2013	Fabio Finocchiaro	Italy	xtable
26	2010- 2015	Ron Langeveld	Netherlands	xtable
27	2011- 2014	Aleksandr Dronov	Russia	xtable
28	2013- 2017	Leonardo Ljubicic	Croatia	xtable
29	2015- 2018	Aleksandr Dronov	Russia	xtable
30	2017- 2019	Andrey Kochemasov	Russia	xtable
31	2019- 2022	Ron Langeveld, Christian Muck, Fabian Stanach	Netherlands, Austria Poland	xtable
32	2020- 2022	Jon Edwards	U.S.A.	xtable

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Table II. ICCF's
World Correspondence Chess Championships - Statistics
WC	White Win	%	Draw	%	Black Win	%	Upset	%

1	37	43.5	22	25.9	26	30.6	13	15.3
2	42	40.0	34	32.4	29	27.6	13	12.4
3	20	45.5	18	40.9	6	13.6	5	11.4
4	30	38.5	33	42.3	15	19.2	10	12.8
5	45	34.1	49	37.1	38	28.8	14	10.6
6	47	39.2	43	35.8	30	25.0	17	14.2
7	50	36.8	53	39.0	33	24.2	12	8.8
8	39	37.1	43	41.0	23	21.9	10	9.5
9	50	37.3	49	36.6	35	26.1	14	10.4
10	39	32.5	52	43.3	29	24.2	13	10.8
WC	White Win	%	Draw	%	Black Win	%	Upset	%

11	39	39.0	41	41.0	20	20.0	11	11.0
12	36	35.6	44	43.6	21	20.8	8	7.9
13	40	29.4	66	48.5	30	22.1	9	6.6
14	34	32.4	46	43.8	25	23.8	5	4.8
15	52	43.4	43	35.8	25	20.8	6	5.0
16	42	30.9	74	54.4	20	14.7	11	8.1
17	43	31.6	77	56.6	16	11.8	7	5.1
18	24	22.9	71	67.6	10	09.5	2	1.9
19	23	29.5	45	57.7	10	12.8	4	5.1
20	18	17.1	71	67.6	16	15.2	5	4.8
WC	White Win	%	Draw	%	Black Win	%	Upset	%

21	25	23.8	72	68.6	8	7.6	6	5.7
22	38	27.9	80	58.9	18	13.2	2	1.5
23	38	27.9	86	63.2	12	8.8	3	2.2
24	23	16.9	101	74.3	12	8.8	1	0.007
25	22	18.3	90	75.0	8	6.7	1	0.8
26	20	14.7	112	82.4	4	2.9	2	1.5
27	13	9.6	120	88.2	3	2.2	1	0.007
28	17	12.5	116	85.3	3	2.2	1	0.007
29	8	5.9	123	90.4	5	3.7	0	0.00
30	6	4.4	127	93.4	3	2.2	0	0.00
WC	White Win	%	Draw	%	Black Win	%	Upset	%

31	12	8.9	121	90.9	3	0.2	1	0.00
32	7	5.1	119	87.5	10 *	7.4	0	0.00

* Unusually high number of Black wins is due to last place competitor losing 13/16 (81%) of his games

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Table III. ICCF's
World Correspondence Chess Championships - Games Availability

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