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]

N°	Years	Champion	Runner-up
01.	1950-1953	Cecil Purdy [2]	Harald Malmgrem
02.	1956-1959	Viacheslav Ragozin [3]	Lucius Endzelins
03.	1959-1962	Albéric O'Kelly de Galway [4]	Piotr Dubinin
04.	1962-1965	Vladimir Zagorovsky [5]	Georgy Borisenko
05.	1965-1968	Hans Berliner [6]	Jaroslav Hybl
06.	1968-1971	Horst Rittner [7]	Vladimir Zagorovsky
07.	1972-1976	Yakov Estrin [8]	Josef Boey
08.	1975-1980	Jørn Sloth [9]	Vladimir Zagorovsky
09.	1977-1983	Tõnu Õim [10]	Fritz Baumbach
10.	1978-1984	Victor Palciauskas [11]	Juan Morgado
11.	1983-1989	Fritz Baumbach [12]	Gennadi Nesis
12.	1984-1991	Grigory Sanakoev[13]	Josef Franzen
13.	1989-1998	Mikhail Umansky[14]	Eric Bang
14.	1994-2000	Tõnu Õim [15]	Ove Ekebjaerg
15.	1996-2002	Gert Jan Timmerman [16]	Joop van Oosterom
16.	1999-2004	Tunç Hamarat [17]	Rudolf Maliangkay
17.	2002-2007	Ivar Bern [18]	Wolfgang Rohde
18.	2003-2005	Joop van Oosterom [19]	Hans Elwert
19.	2004-2007	Christophe Léotard [20]	Frank Gerhardt
20.	2004-2011	Pertti Lehikoinen [21]	Stefan Winge
21.	2005-2008	Joop van Oosterom [22]	Alexander Ugge
22.	2007-2010	Aleksandr Surenovich Dronov [23]	Jürgen Bücker
23.	2007-2010	Ulrich Stephan[24] [25]	Thomas Winckelmann
24.	2009-2011	Marjan Šemrl[26] [27]	Hans Wunderlich
25.	2009-2013	Fabio Finocchiaro[28] [29]	Richard Hall
26.	2010-2014	Ron Langeveld[30] [31]	Florin Serban
27.	2011-2014	Aleksandr Surenovich Dronov [32]	Matthias Kribben
28.	2013-2016	Ing. Leonardo Ljubičić [33]	Horacio Neto
29.	2015-2018	Aleksandr Surenovich Dronov [34]	Jacek Oskulski

Ladies World Champions

First World Championship (1968/71)

N°	Years	Champion	Runner-up
01.	1968-1972	Olga Rubtsova [35]	Gertrude Schoisswohl
02.	1972-1977	Lora Jakovleva [36]	Olga Rubtsova
03.	1978-1984	Ljuba Kristol [37]	Merike Rotova
04.	1984-1992	Liudmila Belavenets [38]	Nina Orlova
05.	1993-1998	Ljuba Kristol [39]	Ingrida Priedite
06.	2000-2005	Alessandra Riegler [40]	Maja Zelcic
07.	2002-2006	Olga Mikhailovna Sukhareva [41]	Mary Jones
08.	2007-2010	Olga Mikhailovna Sukhareva [42]	Marie Bazantová
09.	2011-2014	Irina Vladimirovna Perevertkina [43]	Maria Lisitcina
10.	2014-2017	Irina Vladimirovna Perevertkina [44]	Tetiana Moyseenko

ICCF World Cup

Nr.	Years	Champion
01.	1973-1977	Karl Maeder [45]
02.	1977-1983	Gennadi Nesis [46]
03.	1981-1986	Nikolai Rabinovich [47]
04.	1984-1989	Albert Popov [48]
5A.	1987-1994	Alexandr Frolov [49]
5B.	1987-1994	Gert Timmerman [50]
06.	1994-1999	Olita Rause [51]
07.	1994-2001	Alexei Lepikhov [52]
08.	1998-2002	Horst Staudler [53]
09.	1998-2001	Edgar Prang [54]
10.	2001-2008	Frank Schroder
11.	2008-2011	Reinhardt Moll [55]
12E	2005-2007	Reinhardt Moll [56]
12P	2009-2013	Matthias Gleichmann [57]
13.	2009-2012	Reinhardt Moll [58]
14.	2009-2012	Reinhardt Moll [59]
15.	2012-2015	Klemen Sivic [60]
16.	2013-2016	Uwe Nogga [61]
17.	2014-2017	Matthias Gleichmann [62]

See also

• World Chess Championship

References