Correspondence chess grandmasters

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).

Jonny Hector (born 13 February 1964) is a Swedish chess grandmaster.

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.

László Bárczay (21 February 1936 – 7 April 2016) was a Hungarian chess Grandmaster.

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.

Aivars Gipslis (February 8, 1937 – April 13, 2000) was a Latvian chess FIDE Grandmaster and also an ICCF Grandmaster, and a chess writer and editor.

Jānis Klovāns (April 9, 1935 – October 5, 2010) was a Latvian chess Grandmaster.

Ryszard Skrobek (born 4 July 1951) is a Polish chess player who won the Polish Chess Championship in 1977.

Olaf Barda (17 August 1909 – 2 May 1971, Oslo), born Olaf M.

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.

Ulf Andersson (born 27 June 1951 in Västerås, Sweden) is a leading Swedish chess player.

Haije Kramer (24 November 1917, Leeuwarden – 11 July 2004) was a Dutch chess master and theoretician.

Simon Webb (10 June 1949 – 14 March 2005) was a British chess player, an International Master, a Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, and a chess 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.

Georgy Konstantinovich Borisenko (May 25, 1922 in Chuhuiv, Ukraine—December 3, 2012 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan) was a Soviet correspondence chess grandmaster and chess theoretician.

Duncan Suttles (born 21 December 1945) is a Grandmaster (chess) of chess who was the strongest Canadian player between the eras of Abe Yanofsky and Kevin Spraggett.

Igor Zakharovich Bondarevsky (Игорь Захарович Бондаревский) (May 12, 1913, Rostov-on-the-Don, Russia – June 14, 1979, Pyatigorsk) was a Soviet Russian chess Grandmaster in both over-the-board and correspondence chess, an International Arbiter, trainer, and chess author.

Mikhail Semyonovich Tseitlin (Russian: Михаил Семенович Цейтлин; German: Michael Zeitlein; born 16 June 1947, in Babruysk) is a Belarusian chess Grandmaster, now resident in Germany.

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.

Jean Hébert (born November 11, 1957 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian International Master of chess, an International Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess, and a chess writer, journalist, and commentator.

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

Martin Kreuzer (born 15 July 1962, Ihrlerstein, Germany) is a German Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess and a Mathematics professor.

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.

Adrian Swayne Hollis (born 2 August 1940 in Bristol, England; died 26 February 2013 in Wells, England), was a distinguished classical scholar and an English correspondence chess grandmaster (title awarded in 1976).

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

Mark Fredrick Noble (born 30 September 1962) is a New Zealand chess and lawn bowls player.

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

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

Roman Chytilek (born 24 February 1976) is a Czech correspondence chess grandmaster, currently No.

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

Mario Napolitano (10 February 1910, Acquaviva delle Fonti – 31 October 1995, Florence) was an Italian chess master.

Eros Riccio (December 1, 1977, Lucca) is an Italian International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, Freestyle Chess Champion and chess opening book author.

Peter Millican (born 1 March 1958) is Gilbert Ryle Fellow and Professor of Philosophy at Hertford College, University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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.

Martin Lohse (born May 29, 1971 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish 21st century classical composer and visual artist.