Flashcards: World Correspondence Chess Champions

Albéric Joseph Rodolphe Marie Robert Ghislain O'Kelly de Galway (17 May 1911, Anderlecht – 3 October 1980, Brussels) was a Belgian chess Grandmaster (1956), and an International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1962), the third ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess (1959–1962).

Olga Nikolaevna Rubtsova (Russian: О́льга Никола́евна Рубцо́ва; 20 August 1909 – 13 December 1994) was a Soviet chess player and fourth Women's World Chess Champion.

Jørn Sloth (born 5 September 1944 in Sjørring, Denmark) is a Danish chess FIDE Master and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, most famous for being the eighth ICCF World Champion, 1975–80.

Vladimir Pavlovich Zagorovsky (June 29, 1925 in Voronezh, Russia, formerly USSR – November 6, 1994) was a Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess.

Mikhail Markovich Umansky (Russian: Михаил Уманский; January 21, 1952 – December 17, 2010) was a Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess, who was the 13th ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1989 and 1998.

Viacheslav Vasilyevich Ragozin (Russian: Вячеслав Васильевич Рагозин, 8 October 1908 – 11 March 1962) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster, an International Arbiter of chess, and a World Correspondence Chess Champion.

Yakov Borisovich Estrin (Russian: Яков Борисович Эстрин, April 21, 1923 – February 2, 1987) was a Russian chess International Master, International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster and world champion, chess theoretician, and writer.

Grigory Konstantinovich Sanakoev (born April 17, 1935 in Voronezh, Russia) is a Russian International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, most famous for being the twelfth ICCF World Champion, 1984–91.

Hans Jack Berliner (born Berlin, Germany, January 27, 1929), a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, is a former World Correspondence Chess Champion, from 1965–68.

Dr Victor Palciauskas (born October 3, 1941 in Kaunas, Lithuania as Vytas Palciauskas) is an American International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, most famous for being the tenth ICCF World Champion, 1978–84.

Tõnu Õim (born 16 June 1941 in Raasiku) is an Estonian grandmaster of correspondence chess, most famous for being the first to have won the ICCF World Championship in correspondence chess twice, in 1983 and 1999.

Joop van Oosterom (born 12 December 1937, Hilversum) is a Dutch billionaire, chess and billiards sponsor, and twice correspondence chess world champion.

Horst Robert Rittner (born July 16, 1930 in Breslau [formerly part of Germany but today in Poland, named Wrocław]) is a German correspondence chess Grandmaster.

Marjan Šemrl (born July 18, 1954) is a Slovenian ICCF Grandmaster.

Aleksandr Surenovich Dronov is a Russian International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster.

Ron Langeveld (born October 10, 1966) is a Dutch ICCF Grandmaster.

Gert Jan Timmerman (born 15 April 1956) is a Dutch chess player, most famous for being the fifteenth ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess, 1996–2002.

Ivar Bern (born January 20, 1967) is a Norwegian chess player, most famous for being the seventeenth World Correspondence Chess Champion, 2002–07.

Fabio Finocchiaro (born June 6, 1939) is an Italian ICCF Grandmaster.

Irina Vladimirovna Perevertkina (Russian: Ирина Владимировна Переверткина; born October 27, 1967) is a Russian Women ICCF Grandmaster.

Ulrich Stephan (born May 7, 1970) is a German ICCF Grandmaster.

Leonardo Ljubičić (born December 26, 1966) is a Croatian ICCF Grandmaster.

Dr Friedrich (Fritz) Baumbach (born September 8, 1935 in Weimar, Germany) is a German International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, most famous for being the eleventh ICCF World Champion, 1983–89.

Tunç Hamarat (born 1946 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish chess player living in Austria and the sixteenth ICCF World Champion, 1999–2004.

Christophe Léotard (born 1966, in Amiens) is a French correspondence chess grandmaster and the 19th World Champion in Correspondence Chess.

Pertti Lehikoinen (born March 19, 1952 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish grandmaster of correspondence chess.