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17th  World Correspondence Chess Championship

World Championship 17 Final (2002-2007) TD Bielecki, Witold
Category 13 GM=9½ SIM=7 IM=6 R 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Score SB
1 NOR GM Bern, Ivar 2592 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 10.5 79
2 GER IM Rohde, Wolfgang 2533 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 10.5 76.75
3 GER GM Neumann, Joachim 2685 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 10.5 75.25
4 FIN IM Linna, Asko 2554 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 10 72.5
5 GER IM Müller, Gerhard (Osnabrück) 2469 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 10 69.75
6 GER SIM Stern, Dr. Werner 2552 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 9 67.25
7 AUT IM Zugrav, Wolfgang 2535 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 9 65.75
8 HUN IM Glatt, Gábor 2578 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 9 65
9 GER GM Raupp, Thomas 2630 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 8.5 64.75
10 FRA GM Lecroq, Michel 2595 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 8.5 60
11 GER IM Gallinnis, Norbert 2570 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 1 ½ 1 1 8.5 57.75
12 CZE GM Daněk, Libor 2546 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 8 53
13 UKR GM Voyna, Alexandr 2617 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 7 49.75
14 SWE IM Eriksson, Anders 2519 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 1 1 7 47.25
15 SCG GM Vukčević, Ing. Borislav 2543 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 1 7 46.25
16 RUS GM Korolev, Sergey Ivanovich 2615 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 2.5 13.5
17 RUS GM Khlusevich, Sergey Olegovich 2623 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.5 4.5

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Ivar Bern (NOR)

Bio note

Ivar Bern (born 20.01.1967), is a Norwegian chess player, most famous for being the seventeenth ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess. In over the board chess he holds an International Master title.

Bern joined the Norwegian correspondence chess federation in 1986 and won the Norwegian correspondence chess championship in 1988. He became an International correspondence chess international master in 1991 and a correspondence chess Grandmaster in 1993.

Qualification to the World Championship started with scoring 10.5/16 giving him a third place finish in a World championship semi-final lasting between 1989 and 1995. This qualified him for a spot in the 3/4 final, or candidate tournament where Bern finished fourth, again scoring 10.5/16, giving him one of the last spots in the World championship. The World Championship started in March 2002 and is as of January 2006 still ongoing, but on January 7 it became clear that none of the other contestants could overtake Bern any longer. Bern has completed all his games, scoring 10.5/16 in this tournament as well. Two other players have the same number of points as he does, but Bern has better tiebreak scores. The slowness of conventional postcards in the seventeenth championship led to the winner of the eighteenth World Championship, Joop van Oosterom being announced before Bern’s victory in the seventeenth. Another performance was the second place in the 7th World Cup Final (started in 1994 and finished in 2001).

In over the board chess Bern has won the Open Norwegian Championships three times, in 1986, 1989 and 1990. His best results in the more prestigious closed Norwegian Championship are third place finishes in 1989 and 1990. He gained the title of International Master in 1992. Bern plays for the Bergen Chess Club, and has participated on the teams which won the Norwegian Team Championships in 1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2003. Bern is the chess columnist for Bergens Tidende.

Apart from chess, Bern’s occupation is as a psychologist in school administration. Bern has also been active as guitarist in the music rock groups The Swamp Babies and Syv.

 

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