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18th  World Correspondence Chess Championship

World Championship 18 Final (2003-2005) TD Bielecki, Witold
Category 15 GM=7 SIM=5 R 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 Score SB
1 NED GM Oosterom, Joop J. van 2725 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 70.00
2 GER GM Elwert, Hans-Marcus 2693 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 9.5 62.25
3 GER GM Schön, Wolfram 2664 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 9 59.75
4 GER GM Soltau, Achim 2618 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 9.5 55.75
5 RUS GM Umansky, Mikhail Markovich 2654 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 0 ½ ½ 8 55.00
6 GER GM Nimtz, Manfred 2634 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 7 44.00
7 CHI GM Toro Solís de Ovando, Guillermo 2636 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 6.5 46.25
8 USA SIM Fleetwood, Daniel M 2546 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 6.5 43.00
9 LAT GM Rause, Mrs. Olita 2720 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 6.5 40.25
10 ITA GM Piccardo, Vittorio 2574 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 6 39.75
11 SVK SIM Hefka, Vladimír 2574 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 6 39.50
12 FRA SIM Spitz, Patrick 2548 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 6 38.00
13 GER GM Kempen, Heinz-Erich van 2554 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 1 1 5.5 34.00
14 GER SIM Tiemann, Hagen 2513 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 4.5 29.75
15 CZE SIM Mráz, Milan 2559 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 4.5 29.75

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Joop J. van Oosterom (NED)

Bio note

Joop van Oosterom (born 12.12.1937, Hilversum) is a Dutch billionaire and chess enthusiast. For many years he has staged the annual Melody Amber tournaments in Monaco, where world-class Grandmasters play rapid and blindfold games.

Van Oosterom was a strong correspondence chess player, but suffered a severe stroke some years ago. Nevertheless, he concluded the world correspondence chess championship successfully and became the 18th World Champion in Correspondence Chess. This achievement, however, has been criticized, as at the time of the championship van Oosterom had hired grandmaster Jeroen Piket as his personal secretary. Earlier, van Oosterom had had two Dutch International Masters on his payroll whose job was to analyse his correspondence games. Chess author Tim Krabbé wrote: “The Turk was operated by William Schlumberger, Mephisto was operated by Isidore Gunsberg, Ajeeb was operated by Harry Pillsbury and Joop van Oosterom is operated by Jeroen Piket.” He didn’t stop at only one World Correspondence Chess Championship title, he also won the 21st World Championship Final in Correspondence Chess, being the actual Champion of ICCF.

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