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 Mikhailovich 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

Ladies World Champions

First World Championship (1968/71)

N°	Years	Champion	Runner-up
01.	1968–1972[39]	Olga Rubtsova	Gertrude Schoisswohl
02.	1972–1977[40]	Lora Jakovleva	Olga Rubtsova
03.	1978–1984[41]	Ljuba Kristol	Merike Rotova
04.	1984–1992[42]	Liudmila Belavenets	Nina Orlova
05.	1993–1998[43]	Ljuba Kristol	Ingrida Priedite
06.	2000–2005[44]	Alessandra Riegler	Maja Zelcic
07.	2002–2006[45]	Olga Mikhailovna Sukhareva	Mary Jones
08.	2007–2010[46]	Olga Mikhailovna Sukhareva	Marie Bazantová
09.	2011–2014[47]	Irina Vladimirovna Perevertkina	Maria Lisitcina
10.	2014–2017[48]	Irina Vladimirovna Perevertkina	Tetiana Moyseenko
11.	2017–2020[49]	Irina Vladimirovna Perevertkina	Vilma Dambrauskaitè

ICCF World Cup

Nr.	Years	Champion
01.	1973–1977	Karl Maeder[50]
02.	1977–1983	Gennadi Nesis[51]
03.	1981–1986	Nikolai Rabinovich[52]
04.	1984–1989	Albert Popov[53]
5A.	1987–1994	Alexandr Frolov[54]
5B.	1987–1994	Gert Timmerman[55]
06.	1994–1999	Olita Rause[56]
07.	1994–2001	Alexei Lepikhov[57]
08.	1998–2002	Horst Staudler[58]
09.	1998–2001	Edgar Prang[59]
10.	2001–2005	Frank Schroder[60]
11.	2008–2011	Reinhardt Moll[61]
12E	2005–2007	Reinhardt Moll[62]
12P	2009–2013	Matthias Gleichmann[63]
13.	2009–2012	Reinhardt Moll[64]
14.	2009–2012	Reinhardt Moll[65]
15.	2012–2015	Klemen Sivic[66]
16.	2013–2016	Uwe Nogga[67]
17.	2014–2017	Matthias Gleichmann[68]

ICCF Chess 960 World Cup

Nr.	Years	Champion
01.	2014–2015	Fabian Stanach[69]
02.	2015–2016	Darko Babič[70]
03.	2016–2018	Jean Banet[71]
04.	2018–2019	Ivan Panitevsky[72]
05.	2019–2021	Aleksey Voll[73]

See also

• World Chess Championship