Correspondence Chess World Champions

Since 1950 there were official Correspondence Chess World Championships organized by ICCF.

As these players were the best correspondence chess players of their time, we list them here in a special section. Enjoy their biographies and games.

List of Correspondence Chess World Champions:

• Cecil John Seddon Purdy
• Viacheslav Ragozin
• Albéric O'Kelly de Galway
• Vladimir Zagorovsky
• Hans Berliner
• Horst Rittner
• Yakov Estrin
• Jørn Sloth
• Tõnu Õim
• Victor Palciauskas
• Friedrich Baumbach
• Grigory Sanakoev
• Mikhail Umansky
• Tõnu Õim
• Gert Jan Timmerman
• Tunç Hamarat
• Ivar Bern
• Joop van Oosterom
• Christophe Léotard