{"id":1915,"date":"2011-11-14T08:31:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T07:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=1915"},"modified":"2012-04-26T15:44:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T13:44:32","slug":"wc-finals-11-20","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=1915","title":{"rendered":"WC Finals 11-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=566&amp;page=10\">&lt;&#8212;&#8211;Previous<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=1915&amp;page=2\">Next&#8212;&#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>11th\u00a0 World Correspondence Chess Championship<\/strong><\/h2>\n<table border=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"22\"><strong>World\u00a0Championship 11 <\/strong>Final (1983-1989) TD Boese, Karl-Heinz-&gt; Gillman, Reg<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"3\"><\/th>\n<th>01<\/th>\n<th>02<\/th>\n<th>03<\/th>\n<th>04<\/th>\n<th>05<\/th>\n<th>06<\/th>\n<th>07<\/th>\n<th>08<\/th>\n<th>09<\/th>\n<th>10<\/th>\n<th>11<\/th>\n<th>12<\/th>\n<th>13<\/th>\n<th>14<\/th>\n<th>15<\/th>\n<th>Score<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01<\/td>\n<td>GDR<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Baumbach, Fritz<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td>10.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>02<\/td>\n<td>URS<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Nesis, Gennadi<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>10.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>03<\/td>\n<td>URS<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Mikhailov, Aleksey<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>10.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>04<\/td>\n<td>URS<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Kosenkov, Vsevolod<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>05<\/td>\n<td>URS<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Zagorovsky, Vladimir<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>06<\/td>\n<td>URS<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Khasin, Abram<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>07<\/td>\n<td>ARG<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Pereyra Puebla, Manuel<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td>6.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>08<\/td>\n<td>BEL<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Blockx, Frank<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td>6.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>09<\/td>\n<td>ARG<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Buj, Pablo<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>NOR<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Sande, Oysten<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>5.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>GDR<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Thiele, Erich<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td>5.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>URS<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Zaitsev, Vladimir<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<td>AUT<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Danner, Georg<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Weisenburger, Horst<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td>ROM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Anton, Aurel<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td>3.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gamesarchive.iccf.com\/wc1113f.zip\">Get PGN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2116\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/11.Baumbach.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2116\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2116\" title=\"\u0010\" src=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/11.Baumbach-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/11.Baumbach-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/11.Baumbach-108x150.jpg 108w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/11.Baumbach.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fritz Baumbach (GDR)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bio note<\/p>\n<p>Dr Friedrich (Fritz) Baumbach (born 08.09.1935 in Weimar, Germany), chemist by profession, in 1966 doctorate in chemistry, he worked as a patent expert at the Academy of Sciences, from 2000 working as independent patent lawyer; family &#8211; 5 children (1 son and 4 daughters);\u00a0is a German chess grandmaster of correspondence chess, most famous for being the eleventh ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1983 and 1989. He was also East German Champion in 1970. From 1993 to 2010 President of BdF (Deutschen Fernschachbundes), from 1995 to 1999 ICCF General Secretary.<\/p>\n<p>He placed 2nd= in a &#8220;champion of champions&#8221; tournament, the ICCF 50 Years World Champion Jubilee, behind Mikhail Umansky. This was a special invitational correspondence tournament involving all living former ICCF World Champions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='chessboard-wrapper'><textarea id='pgn4web_c83fdfe1' style='display:none;' cols='40' rows='8'>   [Event \"11th CC World Ch Final\"]  [Site \"ICCF\"]  [Date \"1983-1989\"]  [Round \"?\"]  [White \"Baumbach, F. (11th WChampion)\"]  [Black \"Danner, G.\"]  [Result \"1-0\"]  [ECO \"A67\"]   1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.e4 g6 7.f4 Bg7 8.Bb5+ Nfd7 9.a4!? Na6?! 10.Nf3 Nc7 11.0\u20130 a6 (11...0\u20130 12.Re1 a6 13.Bf1) 12.Bxd7+ Bxd7 13.f5! 0\u20130 14.Bg5 Bf6 15.Qd2 Ne8N 16.Qf4 Qe7 17.Qh4 h5 18.Bxf6! Qxf6 (18...Nxf6 19.Rae1 Kg7 20.e5 dxe5 21.Nxe5 Qd8 22.fxg6 fxg6 23.Qg5 Be8 24.Nd3!) 19.Qg3 Ng7 20.fxg6 Qxg6 (20...fxg6 21.Qh4) 21.Qf4 f5 22.e5 dxe5 23.Nxe5 (23.Qxe5 Rac8) 23...Qd6 24.Nxd7! Qxd7 25.d6 Rae8 26.Rad1 Re6 27.Nd5 Kh7 28.Nb6! Qc6 29.a5 Re2 30.Nd5!! Rd8 (30...Rxb2 31.Qe5) (30...Re6 31.d7 Rd8 32.Qh4) 31.Nf6+ Kg6 32.Rf3! 1\u20130   <\/textarea><iframe src='https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-chessboard\/pgn4web\/board.html?am=n&amp;d=3000&amp;ig=f&amp;iv=0&amp;ih=s&amp;ss=26&amp;ps=d&amp;pf=d&amp;lch=E6CC98&amp;dch=AD826A&amp;bbch=E0E0E0&amp;hm=b&amp;hch=ABABAB&amp;bd=c&amp;cbch=F0F0F0&amp;ctch=696969&amp;hd=j&amp;md=f&amp;tm=13&amp;fhch=000000&amp;fhs=14&amp;fmch=190CCC&amp;fcch=595959&amp;hmch=E0E0E0&amp;fms=14&amp;fcs=m&amp;cd=i&amp;bch=FFFFFF&amp;fp=13&amp;hl=t&amp;fh=b&amp;fw=p&amp;pi=pgn4web_c83fdfe1' frameborder='0' width='100%' height='268' scrolling='no' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>your web browser and\/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard; alternatively your wordpress theme might suppress the html iframe tag from articles or excerpts<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p><img title=\"Next page...\" src=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=1915\">&lt;&#8212;&#8211;Previous<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=1915&amp;page=3\">Next&#8212;&#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>12th\u00a0 World Correspondence Chess Championship<\/strong><\/h2>\n<table border=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"22\"><strong>World Championship 12 <\/strong>Final (1984-1991) TD Boese, Karl-Heinz-&gt; Gillman, Reg<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"3\"><\/th>\n<th>01<\/th>\n<th>02<\/th>\n<th>03<\/th>\n<th>04<\/th>\n<th>05<\/th>\n<th>06<\/th>\n<th>07<\/th>\n<th>08<\/th>\n<th>09<\/th>\n<th>10<\/th>\n<th>11<\/th>\n<th>12<\/th>\n<th>13<\/th>\n<th>14<\/th>\n<th>15<\/th>\n<th>Score<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01<\/td>\n<td>RUS<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Sanakoev, Grigory<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>10.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>02<\/td>\n<td>SVK<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Franzen, Josef<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>03<\/td>\n<td>FIN<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Kauranen, Risto<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>9.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>04<\/td>\n<td>POL<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Krzyszto\u0144, Jerzy<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>05<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Maeder, Karl-Heinz<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>06<\/td>\n<td>EST<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Oim, Tonu<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>8.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>07<\/td>\n<td>RUS<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Neishtadt, Yacov<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td>7.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>08<\/td>\n<td>NOR<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Sterud, Edvard<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>09<\/td>\n<td>RUS<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Nesis, Gennadi<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>6.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>RUS<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Sokolov, Sergey<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>SWE<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Andersson, Peter Goran Valter<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>USA<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Palciauskas, Vytas<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<td>ROM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Costea, Eugen<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td>4.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<td>ENG<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Richardson, Keith Bevan<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Stransky, Ernst<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gamesarchive.iccf.com\/wc1113f.zip\">Get PGN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<div id=\"attachment_2118\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/12.Sanakoev.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2118\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2118\" title=\"\u0010\" src=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/12.Sanakoev-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/12.Sanakoev-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/12.Sanakoev-104x150.jpg 104w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/12.Sanakoev.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grigory Sanakoev (URS)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bio note<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Grigory Konstantinovich Sanakoev (born 17.04.1935 in Voronezh, Russia) is a Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess, most famous for being the 12th ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1984 and 1991.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He is the author of a book on correspondence chess World Champion at the Third Attempt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<div class='chessboard-wrapper'><textarea id='pgn4web_8fe2c127' style='display:none;' cols='40' rows='8'>   [Event \"12th CC World Ch Final\"]  [Site \"\"]  [Date \"1984-1991\"]  [Round \"?\"]  [White \"Sanakoev,Grigory (12th WChampion)\"]  [Black \"Krzyszton,Jerzy\"]  [Result \"1-0\"]  [ECO \"B19\"]   1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.h4 h6 7.Nf3  Nd7 8.h5 Bh7 9.Bd3 Bxd3 10.Qxd3 Qc7 11.Rh4 e6 12.Bf4 Qa5+  ( 12...Bd6 13.Bxd6 Qxd6 14.Ne4 Qb4+ 15.Nfd2 Ndf6 ( 15...Ngf6  16.d5 Nxe4 17.Rxe4 Qxb2 18.Rb1 Qxa2 19.dxe6 fxe6 20.Reb4 O-O-O  21.Qc3 {!} ) 16.Nc5 Ne7 17.O-O-O Nf5 18.Rf4 O-O-O 19.Nc4 Nd6  20.Ne5 Qa5 21.Kb1 Rhe8 22.Rf3 {Van der Wiel-Tisdall, Arhus 1985} )  13.Bd2 Qb6 ( 13...Qc7 14.O-O-O Ngf6 15.Qe2 Be7 ( 15...Bd6 16.Nf5 )  16.Ne5 Nxe5 17.dxe5 Nd7 18.Rd4 O-O-O 19.Bc3 $16 ) 14.O-O-O Be7  15.Rg4 {!?} Bf8 {?!} ( 15...Ngf6 16.Rxg7 Bf8 ( 16...Kf8 {?} 17.Rxf7+  Kxf7 18.Qg6+ Kf8 19.Ne5 Nxe5 20.dxe5 Nd5 21.Nf5 exf5 22.e6 Rh7  23.Bxh6+ $18 ) 17.Rxf7 Kxf7 18.Qg6+ Ke7 19.Ne5 Nxe5  ( 19...Rh7 20.Nxd7 Kxd7 21.Qxf6 Qd8 22.Ne4 $40 ) 20.dxe5 Nd5  21.Be3 {!} Nxe3 22.Qf6+ Ke8 23.Qxe6+ Be7 24.Qg6+ Kf8 25.e6 $18 )  ( 15...Bf6 16.Ne4 ) ( 15...Kf8 16.Ne5 ) 16.Ne5 Ngf6 17.Rh4 Be7  18.f4 Rf8 19.f5 {!} Nxe5 ( 19...O-O-O 20.Nxf7 {!} Rxf7 21.fxe6  Ne5 22.Qf5 $16 ) 20.dxe5 Nd7 21.Be3 Qc7 ( 21...Nxe5 22.Qc3 {!}  Qc7 23.Re4 Nd7 24.fxe6 fxe6 25.Rxe6 Rf7 ( 25...Qxg3 {?} 26.Rxe7+  {!$18} ) ( 25...O-O-O 26.Rxe7 Qxg3 27.Qxg7 $16 ) 26.Ne4 O-O-O  27.Rxe7 {!} Rxe7 28.Nd6+ Kb8 29.Bxa7+ Ka8 30.Qa3 $18 ) 22.fxe6  Nxe5 23.Qh7 {!} Rd8 ( 23...Bxh4 24.Nf5 {%02'with the idea' Ng7,e7} )  ( 23...fxe6 24.Qxg7 Nf7 25.Rhh1 ) 24.Rxd8+ Bxd8 25.e7 Bxe7 26.Re4  f5 {!} 27.Nxf5 Qa5 28.Kb1 {!} Nc4 ( 28...Qe1+ 29.Bc1 Qxe4 30.Nxg7+  $18 ) 29.Qg6+ ( 29.Rxe7+ Kd8 ) Kd8 ( 29...Rf7 30.Rxe7+ Kd8 31.Bg5  Rxe7 32.Bxe7+ Kd7 33.Bh4 $18 ) 30.Rd4+ Kc7 ( 30...Nd6 31.Rxd6+  Kc7 32.Qg3 $18 ) 31.Qg3+ Qe5 ( 31...Nd6 32.Rxd6 ) ( 31...Bd6  32.Nxd6 {!} ( 32.Rxd6 {?} Rxf5 {!} 33.Rd5+ Kc8 34.Rxa5 Rf1+ 35.Bc1  Nd2+ 36.Ka1 Rxc1# ) Rf1+ ( 32...Nxe3 33.Nf5+ Kb6 34.Nxe3 ) 33.Bc1  Nd2+ 34.Rxd2 Qxd2 35.Ne4+ ) 32.Qxe5+ Nxe5 33.Nxe7 Rf7 34.Ng6 1-0   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href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=1915&amp;page=4\">Next&#8212;&#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>13th\u00a0 World Correspondence Chess Championship<\/strong><\/h2>\n<table border=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"22\"><strong>World Championship 13\u00a0<\/strong>Final (1989-1998) TD Berthelsen, Roald<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"3\"><\/th>\n<th>01<\/th>\n<th>02<\/th>\n<th>03<\/th>\n<th>04<\/th>\n<th>05<\/th>\n<th>06<\/th>\n<th>07<\/th>\n<th>08<\/th>\n<th>09<\/th>\n<th>10<\/th>\n<th>11<\/th>\n<th>12<\/th>\n<th>13<\/th>\n<th>14<\/th>\n<th>15<\/th>\n<th>16<\/th>\n<th>17<\/th>\n<th>Score<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01<\/td>\n<td>RUS<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Umansky, Mikhail M.<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>02<\/td>\n<td>DEN<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Bang, Erik B.H.<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>11.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>03<\/td>\n<td>ENG<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Penrose, Jonathan<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>04<\/td>\n<td>RUS<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Korelov, Aleksandr<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td 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class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>8.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>FRA<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Goldenberg, Richard<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>SWE<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Svenson, Ulf<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>6.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<td>CAN<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Berry, Jonathan<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<td>AUS<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Salm, Max<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>5.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td>RUS<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Kopilov, Igor<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td>5.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>16<\/td>\n<td>RUS<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Tomkovich, Viktor<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17<\/td>\n<td>LTU<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Lapienis, Donatas<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td>0.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gamesarchive.iccf.com\/wc1113f.zip\">Get PGN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2119\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/13.Umansky.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2119\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2119\" title=\"13.Umansky\" src=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/13.Umansky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/13.Umansky.jpg 210w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/13.Umansky-117x150.jpg 117w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mikhail Umansky (RUS)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bio note<\/p>\n<p>Mikhail Markovich Umansky (in Russian \u041c\u0438\u0445\u0430\u0438\u043b \u0423\u043c\u0430\u043d\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439), (born 21.01.1952 in Stavropol, USSR &#8211; died 17.12.2010 in Augsburg, Germany), was a Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess, who was the 13th ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1989 and 1998. He was also USSR Correspondence Champion in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>He might lay claim to being the greatest Correspondence player of all time, since we convincingly won a &#8220;champion of champions&#8221; tournament, the ICCF 50 Years World Champion Jubilee, a special invitational correspondence tournament involving all living former ICCF World Champions. He scored a superb 7\/8 (+6 -0 =2), two points ahead of Gert Jan Timmerman, Fritz Baumbach and Victor Palciauskas. One of his victims was Hans Berliner, who said after his defeat: &#8220;t is amazing that Umansky took only 55!! days to play this wonderful game.. I still do not know where I went wrong in that game&#8221;. See World Champions Jubilee Tournament (2003).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<div class='chessboard-wrapper'><textarea id='pgn4web_417f9e3' style='display:none;' cols='40' rows='8'>   [Event \"13th CC World Ch Final\"]  [Site \"ICCF\"]  [Date \"1989-1998\"]  [Round \"\"]  [White \"Bang, E.\"]  [Black \"Umansky, M. (13th WChampion)\"]  [Result \"0-1\"]  [ECO \"A22\"]   {Comments by Umansky}  1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 Bb4 4.Bg2 0\u20130 5.Nf3 Re8 6.0\u20130 c6   {The first time I ran into this system of development was in 1968 during the Junior Team Championship of the URS in Dnepropetrovsk. I was playing White with the Ukrainian team leader Mikhail Steinberg, a successful Master from Kharkov.}   7.Qb3 ({The game continued} 7.a3 Bf8 8.e4 d5 9.exd5 cxd5 10.d4 e4 11.Ne5 dxc4 12.Nxe4 Nxe4 13.Bxe4 Nd7 14.Nxf7 Kxf7 15.Qh5+ Ke7 16.Bg5+ Nf6 17.Rfe1 {I liked this system of development for Black and that is why I used it many times when I was playing OTB. However, White can avoid the system by playing 4.Nf3.})   7...a5 ({During the game Pribyl - Zinn, Decin 1975, the same position arose after a transposition of moves, and White achieved some advantage after} 7...Qe7 8.d3 h6 9.Bd2 Na6 10.e4 d6 11.a3 {\u2a72})   8.d4 e4 9.Ne1 h6 10.Nc2 Na6 11.Ne3 Nc7 12.c5?! {After the game, Bang suggested 12.Rd1!? but then after 12...b5!? I would have preferred Black's position. Even if 12.d5 b5 &amp;#0192 or 12.a3 Bf8 13.d5 b5 &amp;#0192 Black still plays a nice game.}   12...d6 13.cxd6 ({After} 13.a3 Be6 14.Qc2 Bxc3 15.Qxc3 Nb5 16.Qd2 dxc5 17.dxc5 Nd4 {Black has a decisive advantage.})   13...Bxd6 14.Qc2 Qe7 15.Nc4 Ncd5 16.Bd2 ({In Black's favour are the following variations:} 16.Nxe4 Nxe4 17.Bxe4 Qxe4 18.Qxe4 Rxe4 19.Nxd6 Rxe2 {\u00b5}) (16.Nxd6 Qxd6 17.Nxe4 Nxe4 18.Bxe4 Nb4 19.Qb1 Qxd4 20.Bf3 Bh3 21.Be3 Qf6 {with idea \u2026 Bf5 -\/+}) 16...Bc7 17.Rac1 Bg4 ({I was also examining} 17... Bf5 {but the text move, attacking the e2-pawn, is considerably better.}) 18.Nxd5 {With the exchange of Knights, White tries to simplify the position in order to facilitate the defence.} 18...Nxd5 19.Ne3 Nxe3 20.Bxe3 Rad8 21.Rfd1 Rd5 {Here the Rook excellently handles the role of the blockader and at the right moment can be transferred to the Kingside in order to attack. After some simplification of the position, Black maintains a considerable advantage. 22.Rd2 Bd6 23.a3 White loses time with this move, allowing Black to carry out a helpful regrouping of pieces. 23.Qb3 was dangerous because of 23...Bb4 24.Rdc2 Be6 and the confrontation of the white Queen with the black Bishop on one diagonal would prove fatal for White.} 23...Qe6 24.Qb3 Re7 {Having fortified his position in the centre and on the queenside, Black is ready to attack the King.} 25.Rc3 Bh3 26.Bh1 {White is forced to abandon the exchange of light-squared Bishops leading to a crucial weakening of the light-square structure around the King.} 26...h5 {After h5-h4, Black has the intention to open up the h-file and also to weaken g3, thereby weakening the White King who could fall victim to the Bishop at this point.} 27.f3 {Here White attempts to open up the centre and get rid of the e4-pawn. A passive defence would leave White with no chance whatsoever. However, this move weakens g3 which Black immediately exploits.} ({Bad was} 27.Bf4 {since} 27...Bxf4 28.gxf4 Bf5 29.Rg3 h4 30.Rg5 Bh3!-+) (27...Qg6 {with idea \u2026 Bxg3}) 28.Kf2 (28.Bf2? e3! 29.Bxe3 Bxg3 {loses}) 28...h4 29.f4 ({Hopeless is} 29.Bf4? hxg3+ 30.hxg3 (30.Bxg3 Qh6 31.Re3 f5 32.fxe4 f4-+) 30...Bxf4 31.gxf4 Qf6 32.e3 Qh4+ 33.Ke2 Bf1+ -+) (29...hxg3+ 30.hxg3 Rh5 {with idea \u2026 Bf1}) 31.Rc1 {Other defences are inadequate:} (31.Qd1 Qh7 {with idea \u2026 Bf1} 32.Rc1 Bg4 33.Bg2 Rh2 34.Qg1 Bf3\u2013+) (31.d5 Bf1 32.dxc6 Rxh1 33.Rxd6 Qh5-+) (31.Rd1 Be6 32.Qc2 Rh2+ 33.Bg2 Bh3 34.Rg1 Qg4 {with idea \u2026 g5 \u00b5} 31...Be6 32.Qb6 ({Bad is} 32.Qc3 Rh2+ 33.Bg2 Bh3 34.Rg1 Qg4 35.Qxa5 Bxf4 36.Bxf4 e3+ 37.Bxe3 Qe4-+) 32...Bc7  {This move seemed to me more promising but also deserving attention is} (32...Rh2+!? 33.Bg2 Bh3 34.Rg1 Bxf4 35.Bxf4 e3+ 36.Ke1 exd2+ 37.Kxd2 Rxe2+ 38.Kxe2 Bxg2 {with an irresistible attack on the unprotected White King.} 33.Qa7 Rh2+ 34.Bg2 Bh3 35.Rg1 {The position is ripe for the combinational blow!} 35...Bxf4! 36.Bxf4 e3+ 37.Bxe3 Rxg2+! {A concluding subtlety!} (37...Qe4? 38.Qb8+ Kh7 39.Qf4 Rxg2+ 40.Ke1! Qxe3 41.Qxe3 Rxe3 42.Rxg2 Bxg2 43.Kf2=) 38.Rxg2 Qe4 {The Black pieces cooperate splendidly (the black Queen interacts simultaneously with the Re7 attacking the Be3 as well as with the Bh3 attacking the Rg2). Meanwhile the white Queen is removed from the game. Therefore, left with a superfluous Rook, White cannot defend satisfactorily.} 39.Qb8+ Kh7 40.Ke1 Qxg2 41.Rd3 Bg4 {White resigned. My courteous opponent wrote: \"I resign our game and congratulate you on a very fine game. After my very bad move 12.c5?? and your reply, I felt that I was going to lose the game. Of course I could have defended my position better but after 12.c5 you had all the chances to win. Until that time I was pleased with my position. I think 12.Rd1 is an interesting move. This game is my first defeat since my first CC tournament in 1968...\"} 0\u20131   <\/textarea><iframe src='https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-chessboard\/pgn4web\/board.html?am=n&amp;d=3000&amp;ig=f&amp;iv=0&amp;ih=s&amp;ss=26&amp;ps=d&amp;pf=d&amp;lch=E6CC98&amp;dch=AD826A&amp;bbch=E0E0E0&amp;hm=b&amp;hch=ABABAB&amp;bd=c&amp;cbch=F0F0F0&amp;ctch=696969&amp;hd=j&amp;md=f&amp;tm=13&amp;fhch=000000&amp;fhs=14&amp;fmch=190CCC&amp;fcch=595959&amp;hmch=E0E0E0&amp;fms=14&amp;fcs=m&amp;cd=i&amp;bch=FFFFFF&amp;fp=13&amp;hl=t&amp;fh=b&amp;fw=p&amp;pi=pgn4web_417f9e3' frameborder='0' width='100%' height='268' scrolling='no' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>your web browser and\/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard; alternatively your wordpress theme might suppress the html iframe tag from articles or excerpts<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>=========<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=1915&amp;page=3\">&lt;&#8212;&#8211;Previous<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=1915&amp;page=5\">Next&#8212;&#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>14th\u00a0 World Correspondence Chess Championship<\/strong><\/h2>\n<table border=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"22\"><strong>World Championship 14\u00a0<\/strong>Final (1994-2000) TD Berthelsen, Roald<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"3\"><\/th>\n<th>01<\/th>\n<th>02<\/th>\n<th>03<\/th>\n<th>04<\/th>\n<th>05<\/th>\n<th>06<\/th>\n<th>07<\/th>\n<th>08<\/th>\n<th>09<\/th>\n<th>10<\/th>\n<th>11<\/th>\n<th>12<\/th>\n<th>13<\/th>\n<th>14<\/th>\n<th>15<\/th>\n<th>Score<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01<\/td>\n<td>EST<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Oim, Tonu<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>02<\/td>\n<td>DEN<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Ekebjaerg, Ove<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>10.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>03<\/td>\n<td>FRA<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Lecroq, Michel<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>9.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>04<\/td>\n<td>AUT<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Hamarat, Tunc<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>9.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>05<\/td>\n<td>ENG<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Webb, Simon<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>8.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>06<\/td>\n<td>ARG<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Morgado, Juan S.<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>07<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Stern, Werner<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>7.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>08<\/td>\n<td>RUS<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Sanakoev, Grigory<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>09<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Anton, Volker-Michael<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>NED<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Boll, Peter Albertus<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>6.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Baumbach, Fritz<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>5.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>SVK<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Franzen, Josef<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>5.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<td>ISR<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Kristol, Ljuba<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>5.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<td>ARG<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Buj, Pablo<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>3.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td>POR<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Cordovil, Joao<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gamesarchive.iccf.com\/wc14f.zip\">Get PGN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2122\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/14.Oim_.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2122\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2122\" title=\"\u0010\" src=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/14.Oim_-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/14.Oim_-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/14.Oim_-118x150.jpg 118w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/14.Oim_.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tonu Oim (URS)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bio note<\/p>\n<p>T\u00f5nu \u00d5im (born 16.06.1941 in Tallinn) is an Estonian grandmaster of correspondence chess, most famous for being the first man to have won the ICCF World Championship in correspondence chess twice, in 1983 and 1999.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<div class='chessboard-wrapper'><textarea id='pgn4web_fa8f7be4' style='display:none;' cols='40' rows='8'>   [Event \"14th CC World Ch Final\"]  [Site \"ICCF\"]  [Date \"1994-2000\"]  [Round \"?\"]  [White \"Anton, V.\"]  [Black \"Oim, T. (14th WChampion)\"]  [Result \"0-1\"]  [ECO \"D13\"]   {Comments by Oim}  1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cxd5 cxd5 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.Bf4 a6 7.Ne5 Qb6 8.Nxc6 bxc6 9.a3 Qxb2?! 10.Na4 Qb5 11.Bd2 Qb7 12.Ba5 Bf5 13.Ra2 Nd7 14.Rb2 Qc8! 15.Nb6 Nxb6 16.Rxb6 e5 17.g4! Bd7! 18.Rb3 e4 19.h3 Bd6 20.Bg2 0\u20130 21.0\u20130 f5 22.gxf5 Rxf5 23.Qc2 Rh5 24.Qc3 Bf4! 25.Rfb1 Qe8 26.e3 Bd6 27.Bb4 Bh2+!! 28.Kxh2 Bxh3! 29.Bd6 (29.Bxh3 {allows mate in 5} 29...Qe6) 29...Qe6 30.Rb8+ Kf7! 31.R8b7+ Kg6 32.Kg1 Bxg2 33.Bh2 Rxh2 34.Qxc6 Qxc6 {Awarded a beauty prize by Chigorin Chess Club, 1997} 0\u20131   <\/textarea><iframe src='https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-chessboard\/pgn4web\/board.html?am=n&amp;d=3000&amp;ig=f&amp;iv=0&amp;ih=s&amp;ss=26&amp;ps=d&amp;pf=d&amp;lch=E6CC98&amp;dch=AD826A&amp;bbch=E0E0E0&amp;hm=b&amp;hch=ABABAB&amp;bd=c&amp;cbch=F0F0F0&amp;ctch=696969&amp;hd=j&amp;md=f&amp;tm=13&amp;fhch=000000&amp;fhs=14&amp;fmch=190CCC&amp;fcch=595959&amp;hmch=E0E0E0&amp;fms=14&amp;fcs=m&amp;cd=i&amp;bch=FFFFFF&amp;fp=13&amp;hl=t&amp;fh=b&amp;fw=p&amp;pi=pgn4web_fa8f7be4' frameborder='0' width='100%' height='268' scrolling='no' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>your web browser and\/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard; alternatively your wordpress theme might suppress the html iframe tag from articles or excerpts<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>======<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=1915&amp;page=4\">&lt;&#8212;&#8211;Previous<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=1915&amp;page=6\">Next&#8212;&#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>15th\u00a0 World Correspondence Chess Championship<\/strong><\/h2>\n<table border=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"22\"><strong>World Championship 15 <\/strong>Final (1996-2002) TD Bielecki, Witold<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"3\"><\/th>\n<th>01<\/th>\n<th>02<\/th>\n<th>03<\/th>\n<th>04<\/th>\n<th>05<\/th>\n<th>06<\/th>\n<th>07<\/th>\n<th>08<\/th>\n<th>09<\/th>\n<th>10<\/th>\n<th>11<\/th>\n<th>12<\/th>\n<th>13<\/th>\n<th>14<\/th>\n<th>15<\/th>\n<th>16<\/th>\n<th>17<\/th>\n<th>Score<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01<\/td>\n<td>NED<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Timmerman, Gert 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class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<td>4.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<td>RUS<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Tomkovich, Viktor<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td>LTU<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Gefenas, Vladas<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>16<\/td>\n<td>USA<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Cayford, Tony<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17<\/td>\n<td>RUS<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Shteynsapir, Y. +<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gamesarchive.iccf.com\/wc15f.zip\">Get PGN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2123\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/15.Timmerman.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2123\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2123\" title=\"\u0010\" src=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/15.Timmerman-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/15.Timmerman-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/15.Timmerman-117x150.jpg 117w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/15.Timmerman-400x510.jpg 400w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/15.Timmerman.jpg 461w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gert Jan Timmermann (NED)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bio note<\/p>\n<p>Gert Jan Timmerman (born 15.04.1956) is a Dutch chess player, most famous for being the fifteenth ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1996 and 2002. Before becoming the 15th World Correspondence Chess Champion he won Final B of the 5th World Cup between 1987 and 1994.<\/p>\n<p>He placed 2nd= in a &#8220;champion of champions&#8221; tournament, the ICCF 50 Years World Champion Jubilee, behind Mikhail Umansky. This was a special invitational correspondence tournament involving all living former ICCF World Champions\u2014see World Champions Jubilee Tournament (2003).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<div class='chessboard-wrapper'><textarea id='pgn4web_68aa220b' style='display:none;' cols='40' rows='8'>   [Event \"15th CC World Ch Final\"]  [Site \"ICCF\"]  [Date \"1996-2002\"]  [Round \"?\"]  [White \"Timmerman, G. (15th WChampion)\"]  [Black \"Cayford, R.\"]  [Result \"1-0\"]  [ECO \"B87\"]   {Comments by Timmerman}  1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Bb3 b5 8.Bg5 Be7 9.0\u20130 0\u20130 10.Re1 {A \"quiet\" looking development-plan that leads to rather unknown territory. Normal is to storm with the f-pawn by f2-f4-f5.} 10...Bb7?! {Provoking whites' next Bishop-sacrifice that leads to interesting play. More safe is} (10...Qc7) {or} (10... Qb6!?) {like in Timmerman - Poulsen in the same event.} 11.Bxe6!? fxe6 12.Nxe6 Qc8 13.Nxf8 Qxf8 {White has a Rook and 2 pawns for 2 minor black pieces, which is a small material advantage for white. But the black knight and bishop can be posted on active positions in this case.} 14.a4! b4 15.Bxf6 Bxf6 16.Nd5 Nd7 17.Nxf6+ Qxf6 {Black's position seems quite reasonable, but that judgment has to be questioned after the strong next move from white.} 18.c3! {Black cannot take this c3-pawn by his b4-pawn because of 18.Qb3+ and then 19.Qxb7. White will get now a strong pawn-majority on the Queenside that will help him considerably in an endgame. With his 2 minor pieces for a Rook black has to play for an Kings-attack.} 18...Nc5 ({Another way to start an attack against the white King failed in Timmerman - M. Pos, Dieren (OTB Open Dutch ch. 1997) with} 18...Rf8 19.f3 Ne5 20.cxb4 Qg5 21.Kh1 d5 22.exd5 Ng6 23.Ra3 Nh4 24.Qe2 Bxd5 25.Re3 Qg6 26.Re8 Rxe8 27.Qxe8+ Qxe8 28.Rxe8+ Kf7 29.Re5 Bb7 30.Rc5 Ke6 31.Rc7 Bd5 32.Rxg7 h6 33.Ra7 Bc4 34.b5 axb5 35.Ra6+ Kf5 36.axb5 Bf1 37.Rxh6 Kg5 38.Rxh4 Kxh4 39.b6 Ba6 40.Kg1 1\u20130) 19.cxb4 Nxe4 20.f3 Ng5 21.Qb3+ Kh8 22.Re3! Rf8 {Still blacks' chances seems not bad. White has to play carefully and does that with the strong plan to exchange a couple of Rooks in order to stop a looming Kings-attack by black. The lesser pieces there are on the board, the more dangerous the Queenside-pawns will become eventually.} 23.Qc3! {Preventing the black bishop from square c6, where it would control the by white intended Rooks-exchanging-square e8.} 23...Qg6 {Covers square e8 and threatens something on f3.} 24.Kh1 h5 25.Qd3 Qf6 26.b5 Qf4 27.Rae1 {Black cannot avoid an exchange of a pair of Rooks and chooses to escape in a Rook-ending that will appear to be just lost.} 27...Nxf3 (27...axb5 28.Qxb5 Bxf3 29.Rxf3 Nxf3 30.Qxh5+ Kg8 31.Qxf3 Qxf3 32.gxf3 Rxf3 33.a5 {is a worse version of the actual Rook-endgame in the game.}) 28.Rxf3 Bxf3 29.Qxf3 Qxf3 30.gxf3 axb5  31.a5! {This free white a-pawn will paralyse blacks Rook till the ultimate end of the game.} 31...b4 32.Kg2 g5 33.a6 Ra8 34.Ra1 Kg7 35.Kf2 Kf6 36.Ke3 Ke5 37.Ra5+ d5 38.a7 h4 39.b3 h3 40.Ra6 d4+ 41.Kd3 Kf4 42.Rf6+ Ke5 43.Ra6 {Black is finally in Zugzwang} 43...Kf4 44.Rf6+ Ke5 45.Rf7! Ke6 46.Rb7 Ke5 47.Rh7 {On} 47... Kd5 {follows} 48.Rg7 {and the g5 -pawn falls and after} (47...Kf4 48.Kxd4 Kxf3 49.Rxh3+) {the black h3-pawn disappears with check with the time to protect the white a7-pawn with 50.Rh7.} 1\u20130   <\/textarea><iframe src='https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-chessboard\/pgn4web\/board.html?am=n&amp;d=3000&amp;ig=f&amp;iv=0&amp;ih=s&amp;ss=26&amp;ps=d&amp;pf=d&amp;lch=E6CC98&amp;dch=AD826A&amp;bbch=E0E0E0&amp;hm=b&amp;hch=ABABAB&amp;bd=c&amp;cbch=F0F0F0&amp;ctch=696969&amp;hd=j&amp;md=f&amp;tm=13&amp;fhch=000000&amp;fhs=14&amp;fmch=190CCC&amp;fcch=595959&amp;hmch=E0E0E0&amp;fms=14&amp;fcs=m&amp;cd=i&amp;bch=FFFFFF&amp;fp=13&amp;hl=t&amp;fh=b&amp;fw=p&amp;pi=pgn4web_68aa220b' frameborder='0' width='100%' height='268' scrolling='no' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>your web browser and\/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard; alternatively your wordpress theme might suppress the html iframe tag from articles or excerpts<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>=============<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=1915&amp;page=5\">&lt;&#8212;&#8211;Previous<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=1915&amp;page=7\">Next&#8212;&#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>16th\u00a0 World Correspondence Chess Championship<\/strong><\/h2>\n<table border=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"22\"><strong>World Championship 16 <\/strong>Final (1999-2004) TD Bielecki, Witold<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"3\"><\/th>\n<th>01<\/th>\n<th>02<\/th>\n<th>03<\/th>\n<th>04<\/th>\n<th>05<\/th>\n<th>06<\/th>\n<th>07<\/th>\n<th>08<\/th>\n<th>09<\/th>\n<th>10<\/th>\n<th>11<\/th>\n<th>12<\/th>\n<th>13<\/th>\n<th>14<\/th>\n<th>15<\/th>\n<th>16<\/th>\n<th>17<\/th>\n<th>Score<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01<\/td>\n<td>AUT<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Hamarat, Tunc<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>02<\/td>\n<td>NED<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Maliangkay, Ruud<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>03<\/td>\n<td>RUS<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Samarin, Igor<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>04<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Soltau, Achim<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>05<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Pfretzschner, Roland<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>9.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>06<\/td>\n<td>DEN<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Bang, Erik<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>07<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Kluve, Siegfried<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>08<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Morhlok, Dieter<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>8.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>09<\/td>\n<td>RUS<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Kopylov, Igor +<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>8.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>RUS<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Kamenets, Anatoly<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>CZE<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Sevecek, Rudolf<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>DEN<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Ekebjaerg, Ove<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>7.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Rittner, Horst Robert<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<td>DEN<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Sloth, Jorn<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td>UKR<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Volchok, Alexander<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>6.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>16<\/td>\n<td>GRE<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Kofidis, Spyros<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td>4.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17<\/td>\n<td>POL<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Brzozka, Stefan<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gamesarchive.iccf.com\/wc16f.zip\">Get PGN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2124\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/16.Tunc-Hamarat-AUT.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2124\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2124\" title=\"16.Tunc Hamarat (AUT)\" src=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/16.Tunc-Hamarat-AUT-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/16.Tunc-Hamarat-AUT-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/16.Tunc-Hamarat-AUT-150x138.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/16.Tunc-Hamarat-AUT.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tunc Hamarat (AUT)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bio note<\/p>\n<p>Tun\u00e7 Hamarat (born 01.12.1946 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish chess player living in Austria and the 16th International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF) World Champion in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Hamarat attended the Austrian St. Georgs-Kolleg high school in Istanbul, and then graduated in Physics from the Middle East Technical University (ODT\u00dc) in Ankara. In 1972, he moved to Vienna, Austria for his Master&#8217;s degree in Physics Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology there. In 1976, he went temporarily back to \u0130zmir, Turkey for military service. Since 1972 he has been living in Austria and has been an Austrian citizen since 1994. Recently, he is working for a telecommunication company in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>During the 16th ICCF World Championship, he had amassed an unassailable 11 points out of 15 games with one game remaining. Hamarat was really deadly on the black side of the Sicilian Sveshnikov, beating former CC World Champion Horst Rittner of Germany and Greek International Master Spyros Kofidis with it. At one time, Hamarat was supposed not to have lost a single white game in over 40 years. However, this retroactively ceased to be the case, as correspondence chess games date from their year of initiation, and Hamarat eventually lost games playing with the white pieces against Edgar Prang (started in 2001) and Hans Marcus Elwert (started in 2002), though he apparently resigned these only after he became World Champion in January 2004. In &#8216;over-the-board chess&#8217;, he played in the finals of the Turkish championships three times. In Vienna, he played in the top league. But since 1963 his main interest has been correspondence chess, &#8220;because I am a perfectionist&#8221;, he says. In 1997, he won the title of International Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess.<\/p>\n<p>Hamarat also plays backgammon professionally . He is the top player in Austria. He won several titles in international backgammon tournaments. Besides, he is also an expert in jazz music, and acts as a jazz DJ in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>The Austrian mail authority issued a personified postage stamp with his picture in his honor. The Wiener Zeitung, an important newspaper, named him as the &#8216;Viennese of the month&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<div class='chessboard-wrapper'><textarea id='pgn4web_5630b269' style='display:none;' cols='40' rows='8'>   [Event \"16th CC World Ch Final\"]  [Site \"\"]  [Date \"1999-2004\"]  [Round \"?\"]  [White \"Hamarat, T. (16th WChampion)\"]  [Black \"Kluve, S.\"]  [Result \"1-0\"]  [ECO \"C06\"]   1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.c3 c5 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.Ne2 cxd4 8.cxd4 f6  9.exf6 Qxf6 10.Nf3 h6 11.O-O Bd6 12.Bb1 O-O 13.Ng3 Rd8 14.Re1 Nf8  15.Ne5 Bd7 16.Nh5 Qe7 17.Ng4 e5 18.dxe5 Bxg4 19.exd6 Qe5 20.Rxe5 Bxd1  21.Rxd5 Bxh5 22.Rxh5 Rxd6 23.Bc2 Nd4 24.Be4 Rad8 25.Kf1 Nh7 26.Bf4 R6d7  27.Be5 Ng5 28.Bg6 Nc6 29.Bc3 Rd6 30.Bc2 Nd4 31.Bd3 b5 32.h4 Nge6 33.Be4 Kf7  34.Re1 a6 35.g3 Nc6 36.a3 Ned4 37.Rc5 R8d7 38.f4 Ne7 39.Kf2 Re6 40.h5 Red6  41.Bg2 Ra7 42.Bh3 Ndc6 43.Rc1 Rd8 44.Bg4 Rd6 45.Rd1 Rxd1 46.Bxd1 Nb8  47.Bb3+ Kf8 48.Re5 Nd7 49.Re2 Nc5 50.Bc2 Rd7 51.Bb4 Rc7 52.Re5 Nb7  53.Be4 Nd8 54.Bd5 Rd7 55.Ke3 Ra7 56.Kd4 Rd7 57.Bxe7+ Rxe7 58.Rxe7 Kxe7  59.b4 Kd6 60.g4 1-0   <\/textarea><iframe 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href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=1915&amp;page=8\">Next&#8212;&#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>17th\u00a0 World Correspondence Chess Championship<\/strong><\/h2>\n<table border=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"5\"><strong>World Championship 17 <\/strong>Final (2002-2007)<\/th>\n<th colspan=\"21\">TD Bielecki, Witold<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"4\">Category 13 GM=9\u00bd SIM=7 IM=6<\/th>\n<th>R<\/th>\n<th>01<\/th>\n<th>02<\/th>\n<th>03<\/th>\n<th>04<\/th>\n<th>05<\/th>\n<th>06<\/th>\n<th>07<\/th>\n<th>08<\/th>\n<th>09<\/th>\n<th>10<\/th>\n<th>11<\/th>\n<th>12<\/th>\n<th>13<\/th>\n<th>14<\/th>\n<th>15<\/th>\n<th>16<\/th>\n<th>17<\/th>\n<th>Score<\/th>\n<th>SB<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>NOR<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Bern, Ivar<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis3\">2592<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis3\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">10.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">79<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>IM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Rohde, Wolfgang<\/td>\n<td>2533<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis3\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">10.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">76.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Neumann, Joachim<\/td>\n<td>2685<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">10.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">75.25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>FIN<\/td>\n<td>IM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Linna, Asko<\/td>\n<td>2554<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">10<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">72.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>IM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">M\u00fcller, Gerhard (Osnabr\u00fcck)<\/td>\n<td>2469<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">10<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">69.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>SIM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Stern, Dr. Werner<\/td>\n<td>2552<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">9<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">67.25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>AUT<\/td>\n<td>IM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Zugrav, Wolfgang<\/td>\n<td>2535<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">9<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">65.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>HUN<\/td>\n<td>IM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Glatt, G\u00e1bor<\/td>\n<td>2578<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">9<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">65<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Raupp, Thomas<\/td>\n<td>2630<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">8.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">64.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>FRA<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Lecroq, Michel<\/td>\n<td>2595<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">8.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>IM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Gallinnis, Norbert<\/td>\n<td>2570<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">8.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">57.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>CZE<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Dan\u011bk, Libor<\/td>\n<td>2546<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">8<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">53<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<td>UKR<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Voyna, Alexandr<\/td>\n<td>2617<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">7<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">49.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<td>SWE<\/td>\n<td>IM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Eriksson, Anders<\/td>\n<td>2519<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">7<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">47.25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td>SCG<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Vuk\u010devi\u0107, Ing. Borislav<\/td>\n<td>2543<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">7<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">46.25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>16<\/td>\n<td>RUS<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Korolev, Sergey Ivanovich<\/td>\n<td>2615<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">2.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">13.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17<\/td>\n<td>RUS<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Khlusevich, Sergey Olegovich<\/td>\n<td>2623<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">0.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">4.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gamesarchive.iccf.com\/WC17final.zip\">Get PGN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2125\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/17.Ivar-Bern-NOR.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2125\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2125\" title=\"17.Ivar Bern (NOR)\" src=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/17.Ivar-Bern-NOR-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/17.Ivar-Bern-NOR-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/17.Ivar-Bern-NOR-108x150.jpg 108w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/17.Ivar-Bern-NOR.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ivar Bern (NOR)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bio note<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s victory in the seventeenth. Another performance was the second place in the 7th World Cup Final (started in 1994 and finished in 2001).<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from chess, Bern&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<div class='chessboard-wrapper'><textarea id='pgn4web_416394be' style='display:none;' cols='40' rows='8'>   [Event \"17th CC World Ch Final\"]  [Site \"\"]  [Date \"2002-2007\"]  [Round \"?\"]  [White \"Bern, I. (17th WChampion)\"]  [Black \"Lecroq, M.\"]  [Result \"1-0\"]  [ECO \"E99\"]   1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.O-O Nc6 8.d5 Ne7  9.Ne1 Nd7 10.Be3 f5 11.f3 f4 12.Bf2 g5 13.Rc1 Ng6 14.c5 Nxc5 15.b4 Na6  16.Nd3 h5 17.Nb5 Bd7 18.a4 Bh6 19.Rc3 Rf7 20.Nxa7 Rg7 21.b5 Nc5  22.Nxc5 dxc5 23.Bxc5 g4 24.fxg4 Qg5 25.b6 cxb6 26.Bxb6 hxg4 27.Bb5 f3  28.Bxd7 Rxd7 29.g3 Nf8 30.h4 Qg6 31.Qb1 Nh7 32.Nc8 Nf6 33.Rc4 Qe8  34.Qc2 Bf8 35.Bf2 Rg7 36.Rc1 Qg6 37.d6 Qe8 38.Qb2 Ra6 39.Rc7 Rxc7  40.dxc7 Qxc8 41.Qxe5 Bg7 42.Qe7 Ne8 43.Qd8 Ra8 44.Qd5+ Kh8 45.Rc5 1-0   <\/textarea><iframe 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href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=1915&amp;page=9\">Next&#8212;&#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>18th\u00a0 World Correspondence Chess Championship<\/strong><\/h2>\n<table border=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"5\"><strong>World Championship 18 <\/strong>Final (2003-2005)<\/th>\n<th colspan=\"21\">TD Bielecki, Witold<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"4\">Category 15 GM=7 SIM=5<\/th>\n<th>R<\/th>\n<th>01<\/th>\n<th>02<\/th>\n<th>03<\/th>\n<th>04<\/th>\n<th>05<\/th>\n<th>06<\/th>\n<th>07<\/th>\n<th>08<\/th>\n<th>09<\/th>\n<th>10<\/th>\n<th>11<\/th>\n<th>12<\/th>\n<th>13<\/th>\n<th>14<\/th>\n<th>15<\/th>\n<th>Score<\/th>\n<th>SB<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">1<\/td>\n<td>NED<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Oosterom, Joop J. van<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis3\">2725<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis3\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">11<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">70.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">2<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Elwert, Hans-Marcus<\/td>\n<td>2693<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis3\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">9.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">62.25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">3<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Sch\u00f6n, Wolfram<\/td>\n<td>2664<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">9<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">59.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">4<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Soltau, Achim<\/td>\n<td>2618<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">9.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">55.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">5<\/td>\n<td>RUS<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Umansky, Mikhail Markovich<\/td>\n<td>2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">8<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">55.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">6<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Nimtz, Manfred<\/td>\n<td>2634<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">7<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">44.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">7<\/td>\n<td>CHI<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Toro Sol\u00eds de Ovando, Guillermo<\/td>\n<td>2636<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">6.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">46.25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">8<\/td>\n<td>USA<\/td>\n<td>SIM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Fleetwood, Daniel M<\/td>\n<td>2546<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">6.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">43.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">9<\/td>\n<td>LAT<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Rause, Mrs. Olita<\/td>\n<td>2720<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">6.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">40.25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">10<\/td>\n<td>ITA<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Piccardo, Vittorio<\/td>\n<td>2574<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">6<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">39.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">11<\/td>\n<td>SVK<\/td>\n<td>SIM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Hefka, Vladim\u00edr<\/td>\n<td>2574<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">6<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">39.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">12<\/td>\n<td>FRA<\/td>\n<td>SIM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Spitz, Patrick<\/td>\n<td>2548<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">6<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">38.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">13<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Kempen, Heinz-Erich van<\/td>\n<td>2554<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">5.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">34.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">14<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>SIM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Tiemann, Hagen<\/td>\n<td>2513<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">4.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">29.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">15<\/td>\n<td>CZE<\/td>\n<td>SIM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Mr\u00e1z, Milan<\/td>\n<td>2559<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">4.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">29.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gamesarchive.iccf.com\/WC18.zip\">Get PGN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2126\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/18.Joop-van-Oosterom-NED.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2126\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2126\" title=\"18.Joop van Oosterom (NED)\" src=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/18.Joop-van-Oosterom-NED-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/18.Joop-van-Oosterom-NED-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/18.Joop-van-Oosterom-NED-106x150.jpg 106w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/18.Joop-van-Oosterom-NED.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joop J. van Oosterom (NED)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bio note<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 Krabb\u00e9 wrote: &#8220;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.&#8221; He didn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<div class='chessboard-wrapper'><textarea id='pgn4web_a874bbed' style='display:none;' cols='40' rows='8'>   [Event \"18th CC World Ch Final\"]  [Site \"\"]  [Date \"2003-2005\"]  [Round \"?\"]  [White \"Van Oosterom, J. (18th WChampion)\"]  [Black \"Nimtz, M.\"]  [Result \"1-0\"]  [ECO \"B80\"]   1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.f3 b5 8.g4 h6  9.Qd2 Nbd7 10.O-O-O Bb7 11.h4 b4 12.Na4 Qa5 13.b3 Rc8 14.Rg1 Nc5 15.g5 hxg5  16.hxg5 Nfd7 17.g6 f5 18.Kb1 Nxa4 19.bxa4 Qxa4 20.Nxe6 Ne5 21.Rg3 Nxf3  22.Rxf3 Bxe4 23.Bc5 Bxf3 24.Re1 Be4 25.Bd3 Qc6 26.Bxe4 fxe4 27.Qf4 Be7  28.Rd1 Bf6 29.Nxg7+ Bxg7 30.Qf7+ Kd8 31.Qxg7 Qxc5 32.Qxh8+ Kc7  33.g7 Kb7 34.Qh2 Rg8 35.Qh7 Qc4 36.Qg6 Rc8 37.Qg2 Qe6 38.Rf1 Qd5 39.Re1 Re8  40.Qg6 Rg8 41.Rxe4 a5 42.Qg2 Qc6 43.Rg4 Qxg2 44.Rxg2 Kc6 45.Kc1 Kd5  46.Kd2 Ke4 47.Rg1 d5 48.Rg2 Kf3 49.Rg6 1-0   <\/textarea><iframe 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href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=1915&amp;page=10\">Next&#8212;&#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>19th\u00a0 World Correspondence Chess Championship<\/strong><\/h2>\n<table border=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"5\"><strong>World Championship 19 <\/strong>Final (2004-2007)<\/th>\n<th colspan=\"21\">TD Brooks, Dr. Ian S.<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"4\">Category 15 GM=6 SIM=4\u00bd<\/th>\n<th>R<\/th>\n<th>01<\/th>\n<th>02<\/th>\n<th>03<\/th>\n<th>04<\/th>\n<th>05<\/th>\n<th>06<\/th>\n<th>07<\/th>\n<th>08<\/th>\n<th>09<\/th>\n<th>10<\/th>\n<th>11<\/th>\n<th>12<\/th>\n<th>13<\/th>\n<th>Score<\/th>\n<th>SB<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">1<\/td>\n<td>FRA<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">L\u00e9otard, Christophe<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis3\">2655<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis3\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">8.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">48.25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">2<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Gerhardt, Frank<\/td>\n<td>2643<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis3\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">8<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">44.25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">3<\/td>\n<td>UKR<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Lepikhov, Aleksey<\/td>\n<td>2609<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">7.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">43.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">4<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Voss, Maximilian<\/td>\n<td>2641<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">7<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">37.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">5<\/td>\n<td>UKR<\/td>\n<td>SIM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Gozman, Alexandr<\/td>\n<td>2590<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">7<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">36.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">6<\/td>\n<td>LUX<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Stull, Norbert<\/td>\n<td>2602<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">6.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">34.25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">7<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Fademrecht, Werner<\/td>\n<td>2570<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">6<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">35.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">8<\/td>\n<td>BRA<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Costa, Carlos Evanir<\/td>\n<td>2689<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">5.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">32.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">9<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>SIM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Geist, Dr. Helmut<\/td>\n<td>2575<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">5.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">30.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">10<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Hertel, Peter<\/td>\n<td>2655<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">5.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">29.25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">11<\/td>\n<td>ITA<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Cardelli, Gabriel<\/td>\n<td>2538<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">4.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">27.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">12<\/td>\n<td>RUS<\/td>\n<td>SIM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Romanov, Sergey Anatolievich<\/td>\n<td>2558<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">4.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">22.25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">13<\/td>\n<td>CZE<\/td>\n<td>SIM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Lexa, V\u00e1clav<\/td>\n<td>2562<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">2<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">11.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gamesarchive.iccf.com\/WC19Final.zip\">Get PGN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2127\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/19.Christophe-Leotard-FRA.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2127\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2127\" title=\"19.Christophe Leotard (FRA)\" src=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/19.Christophe-Leotard-FRA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/19.Christophe-Leotard-FRA.jpg 170w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/19.Christophe-Leotard-FRA-122x150.jpg 122w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christophe L\u00e9otard (FRA)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bio note<\/p>\n<p>Christophe L\u00e9otard (born 1966 in Amiens) is a French correspondence chess grandmaster and the 19th World Champion in Correspondence Chess. He obtained 8.5 points (+5 =7) in the championship (a category XV tournament), which started on April 20, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<div class='chessboard-wrapper'><textarea id='pgn4web_d1dfe366' style='display:none;' cols='40' rows='8'>   [Event \"19th CC World Ch Final\"]  [Site \"\"]  [Date \"2004-2007\"]  [Round \"?\"]  [White \"Leotard, C. (19th WChampion)\"]  [Black \"Voss, M.\"]  [Result \"1-0\"]  [ECO \"E99\"]   1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.d4 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.O-O Nc6 8.d5 Ne7  9.Ne1 Nd7 10.Be3 f5 11.f3 f4 12.Bf2 g5 13.Rc1 Ng6 14.c5 Nxc5 15.b4 Na6  16.Nb5 Bd7 17.Nxa7 Qb8 18.Nb5 h5 19.a4 Rf7 20.Nd3 Bh6 21.Rc3 Rg7 22.Na3 b6  23.Nc4 Qd8 24.b5 Nc5 25.Nxc5 bxc5 26.Ra3 Nf8 27.Qb3 g4 28.fxg4 Bxg4  29.Bf3 Qg5 30.Kh1 Qg6 31.Rg1 Bg5 32.b6 cxb6 33.Qxb6 Be7 34.a5 Nh7 35.a6 Bf8  36.a7 Ng5 37.Nd2 Bc8 38.Qb8 Rgxa7 39.Qxa7 Rxa7 40.Rxa7 c4 41.Rc7 Qe8  42.Bh4 Qd8 43.Rxc4 Bd7 44.Rb1 Be7 45.Bxh5 Kg7 46.Bxg5 Bxg5 47.Rb7 Kh6  48.Rcc7 Kxh5 49.Rxd7 Qa5 50.Rh7+ Kg6 51.Rbg7+ Kf6 52.h4 1-0   <\/textarea><iframe 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href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/?page_id=1917\">Next&#8212;&#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>20th\u00a0 World Correspondence Chess Championship<\/strong><\/h2>\n<table border=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"5\"><strong>World Championship 20\u00a0<\/strong>Final (2004-2011)<\/th>\n<th colspan=\"21\">TD Bielecki, Witold-&gt;Flores Guti\u00e9rrez, Carlos<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"4\">Category 13 GM=8 SIM=6<\/th>\n<th>R<\/th>\n<th>01<\/th>\n<th>02<\/th>\n<th>03<\/th>\n<th>04<\/th>\n<th>05<\/th>\n<th>06<\/th>\n<th>07<\/th>\n<th>08<\/th>\n<th>09<\/th>\n<th>10<\/th>\n<th>11<\/th>\n<th>12<\/th>\n<th>13<\/th>\n<th>14<\/th>\n<th>15<\/th>\n<th>Score<\/th>\n<th>SB<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">1<\/td>\n<td>FIN<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Lehikoinen, Pertti<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis3\">2583<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis3\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">9<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">58.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">2<\/td>\n<td>SWE<\/td>\n<td>SIM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Winge, Stefan<\/td>\n<td>2522<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis3\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<sup>D<\/sup><\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">9<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">58.25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">3<\/td>\n<td>CZE<\/td>\n<td>SIM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Kratochv\u00edl, Milo\u0161<\/td>\n<td>2537<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">8.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">57.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">4<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>SIM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Bro\u00df, Horst<\/td>\n<td>2565<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<sup>D<\/sup><\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">8.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">55.25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">5<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>SIM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Brenke, Dr. Andreas<\/td>\n<td>2602<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">8<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">55.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">6<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Soltau, Achim<\/td>\n<td>2640<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">8<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">54.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">7<\/td>\n<td>USA<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Zilberberg, Alik Samulovich<\/td>\n<td>2614<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">8<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">53.25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">8<\/td>\n<td>SUI<\/td>\n<td>SIM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Thaler, Anton<\/td>\n<td>2551<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<sup>D<\/sup><\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">7<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">44.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">9<\/td>\n<td>CZE<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Toch\u00e1\u010dek, Michal<\/td>\n<td>2486<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">6.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">44.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">10<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>IM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Hafner, Manfred<\/td>\n<td>2494<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">6.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">42.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">11<\/td>\n<td>ENG<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Brookes, John G.<\/td>\n<td>2589<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<sup>D<\/sup><\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">6.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">41.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">12<\/td>\n<td>CHI<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Toro Sol\u00eds de Ovando, Guillermo<\/td>\n<td>2626<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">6<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">42.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">13<\/td>\n<td>RUS<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Pankratov, Aleksandr Valerievich<\/td>\n<td>2475<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<sup>D<\/sup><\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<sup>D<\/sup><\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<sup>D<\/sup><\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<sup>D<\/sup><\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">34.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">14<\/td>\n<td>GER<\/td>\n<td>IM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Herbrechtsmeier, Christof<\/td>\n<td>2502<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">32.25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"vis-right\">15<\/td>\n<td>ESP<\/td>\n<td>GM<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis-name\">Mercadal Benejam, Josep<\/td>\n<td>2506<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u00bd<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">\u2654<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis2\">3.5<\/td>\n<td class=\"vis1\">23.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>X<sup>D<\/sup> = result by default<\/p>\n<p>Get PGN<br \/>\n==<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2128\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/20.Pertti-Lehikoinen-FIN.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2128\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2128\" title=\"20.Pertti Lehikoinen (FIN)\" src=\"http:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/20.Pertti-Lehikoinen-FIN-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/20.Pertti-Lehikoinen-FIN-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/20.Pertti-Lehikoinen-FIN-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/20.Pertti-Lehikoinen-FIN.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pertti Lehikoinen (FIN)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bio note<\/p>\n<p>Pertti Lehikoinen (born 19.03.1952 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish grandmaster of correspondence chess. He won the 20th World Correspondence Chess Championship (started in 25th Oct 2004, finished in 20th Feb 2011).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>======<\/p>\n<div class='chessboard-wrapper'><textarea id='pgn4web_2084df7f' style='display:none;' cols='40' rows='8'>   [Event \"20th CC World Ch Final\"]  [Site \"\"]  [Date \"2004-2011\"]  [Round \"?\"]  [White \"Lehikoinen, Pertti (Finland) (20th WChampion)\"]  [Black \"Hafner, Manfred (Germany)\"]  [Result \"1-0\"]  [ECO \"D37\"]   {Commented by Pertti Lehikoinen, translated to English by Panu Laine. This positional struggle against Manfred Hafner from Germany was my best game in the 20th Correspondence Chess World Championship Final. I was able to convert a small advantage I gained in the opening to a full point.}   1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Be7!   {This move order was originated by Tigran Petrosjan in the late 50's and early 60's and he used it in 3 games in his match against Botvinnik in 1963. It found its way to the games of Victor Kortshnoi, Anatoli Lutikov, Boris Spassky, Lajos Portisch and many other top players of the time. The purpose of 3...Be7 is to avoid the worst problems of QG Exchange variation, when after 3...Nf6 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bg5 black has some problems with his queen's bishop. The line 5\u2026c6 6.e3 Bf5 7.Qf3 is unfavourable for black. The idea of 3\u2026Be7! is revealed in the variation 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.cxd5 exd5 6.Bg5 c6 7.e3 Bf5 or 7.Qc2 g6 followed by \u2026Bf5. In both cases black has solved the problem of his \u201cbad\u201d c8 bishop and renders the exchange variation aimless for white. We can say that 3\u2026Be7! force white to play Nf3 or alternatively Bf4 instead of the normal Bg5, and in both cases white doesn\u2019t have hope of opening advantage.   A further interesting question is that should black overall be afraid of the exchange variation? One answer is given in my game against Alexander Ugge in XIX \u00be final. In that game I succeeded to win my Canadian opponent and I barely made it to the WCC final instead of the Canadian. He made it to the 21st WCC Final and got silver medal right after the venerable Joop J. van Oosterom being the only player without losses.}   4.Nf3   {Black's 3rd move practically forced me to give up the exchange variation, so I had to invent something else.}   4\u2026Nf6 5.Bf4   {I had earlier played here 5.Bg5, but my latest effort with this move ended into a draw only after 17 moves, so I wanted to try something else. 5.Bf4 shouldn't be any better for fighting for an advantage according to the opening manuals, but it is not at all that simple. Anyway white enjoys the advantage of the opening move and the white bishop on the diagonal h2-b8 is clearly more dominant than either of the black bishops. So I was confident that I would find something to maintain a small advantage with the white pieces.}   5\u2026O-O 6.e3 Nbd7   {The most usual move here is 6...c5, but also 6...b6 and 6...c6 has been played rather regularly.}   7.c5 c6 8.Bd3 b6 9.b4 a5 10.b5!   {This move has been played only a couple of times, but I had prepared a novelty in this variation. The usual continuation is 10.a3 Ba6 11.O-O Qc8 with equality. This was also played in Tomi Nyback-Magnus Carlsen, Dresden ol, 2008.}   10...Bb7 11.cxb6 Nxb6 12.bxc6 Bxc6 13.Ne5!   {This is a novelty! Earlier continuations had been 13.O-O Nfd7 14.Qc2 h6 15.Nb5 Bxb5 16.Bxb5 Nc4! 17.Bxc4 Rc8 18.Rab1 Rxc4 1\/2-1\/2, Peter Heine Nielsen-Kasimdzhanov, Skanderborg, 2003. Kasimdzhanov recommends instead of 15.Nb5 to play 15.Rab1Bb4 16.Rfc1 Qe7 17.Qe2 and considers it a little better for white. I also spent a lot of effort to study that game, but rejected it after realising that black can equalise by playing simply 13...Ne4.}   13...Bb4 14.O-O Bxc3 15.Nxc6 Qe8 16.Bb5 Bxa1 17.Bd6   {While black is collecting material, White is adding the steam. Now white threatens to win the black queen with Ne7+ and black queen doesn't have any vacant squares left. Black's only alternative is to move his king to the corner, after which white may recollect the sacrificed material.}   17\u2026Kh8 18.Qxa1 Ne4 19.Bxf8 Qxf8 20.Ne5   {I sent this move at the last day before overstepping the time limit.}   20\u2026Nd6 21.Rb1   {After the heavy exchange of blows the material is even and the position is going into a more positional direction. White's pieces are a little better situated, but that shouldn't be significant. Instead black has one permanent weakness is a form of a-pawn. Black's future difficulties to protect it will give white a slight advantage.}   21\u2026Nbc4 22.Bxc4 dxc4   {Here my opponent spent a considerable amount of time on pondering, weather to take back with a knight or pawn. I had faced the same dilemma without being able to draw any definitive conclusions. Black's choice was a slight surprise after all. After 22...Nxc4 the most probable continuation would have been 23.Nxc4 dxc4 24.Qb2! h6 25.h3 and white enjoys a slight advantage also in this continuation.   In the game continuation black's passed c-pawn is a weakness in an ending, but in favourable circumstances it may also prove to be strength.}   23.Rb6   {With a simple threat of Rxd6 and Nxf7+.}   23\u2026Kg8 24.h3! Rc8   {This was almost forced as 24...f6 25.Nd7 Qe7 26.Nc5 Qc7 27.Qb1 is even more advantageous for white. Even worse would have been 24...Qd8 25.Rc6 Rc8 26.Rc5 Rxc5 27.dxc5 Ne4 28.Nxc4 Nxc5 and like in a textbook example white's strong Q+N beats the black colleagues. Namely 29.Qe5 Nb7 30.Qb5 Qa8 31.Qc6 (threatening Nd6) Qb8 32.Nb6! h6 (Luft, what else could black play?) 33.Nd7 Qa8 34.Nc5 and black loses his knight. Of course something else like 30...Qc8 31.Nxa5 Dc1+ 32.Kh2 Qc7+ 33.f4 is better for black, but even here black can't take to a5 due to back rank mate. That is why white has an undisputable advantage in all variations.}   25.Qc3!   {I considered this move really long time, because it demanded very deep analysis, so I took my first and only allowed overstepping of the time limit here. After the game to my surprise Fritz didn't get this move even to top-6. Fritz's favourite is 25.Ra6, but when I played my analysis against Fritz, after variations 25...c3 26.Qc1 Ne4 27.Nd3 as well as 26.Rc6 f6 27.Rxc8 and 26.Nd3 c2 27.Rxa5 Qd8 28.Ra3 also Fritz admitted that the white advantage had gone to the winds. Kasparov has said that engines must be twisted even several moves towards your variation before they agree with you. Here it is perfectly true. Usually I even don\u2019t use engines in positional game, as they have very little to offer for a strong correspondence player. Instead in sharp and tactical situations engines are mandatory, as they speed up a lot the analysis work. Even then it is clear that you can't trust blindly to engines opinions. Perhaps this is a blessing for correspondence chess.}   25...Qd8 26.Ra6 f6   {Black has also came to a conclusion that his a-pawn is lost already. The following rather forcing variation 26...Ne4 27.Qc2 Qd5 28.Nc6 Qb5 29.Ne7+ Kf8 30.Ra7 Re8 didn't attract black.}   27.Nc6 Qd7 28.Nxa5   {Now the a5-pawn has been removed from the board, but it can't be considered a win of a pawn due to added strength of the black c-pawn.}   28...Nf5   {Here I expected more 28...Ne4 29.Qb4 c3 30.Nb3, but white would have a slight advantage also in this variation.}   29.Qb4 c3 30.Nb3 e5   {Black must try to rip the position open as much as possible to be able to support the advance of his passed c-pawn. An alternative 30...c2 31.Nc1 would lead to white advantage after Qd5 32.Qb3 Qxb3 33.axb3 e5 34.d5 e4}   31.dxe5 fxe5   {Naturally black didn't like 31...c2 32.exf6 c1=Q+ 33.Nxc1 Rxc1+ 34.Kh2 Rc8 35.Qb3+ Kh8 where white has four pawns for a knight and black's king's position remains shaky.}   32.Kh2!   {Finding this move caused me a lot of trouble, while I was first time analysing this position at my 25th move. I was obsessed that my king should run to fight for the black's c-pawn. Things started to materialise after I was able to convince my thick head that white king has absolutely nothing to do in the open field with this much material on the board. The game continuation removes the white king from the future back rank checks.}   32.-Qc7   {An alternative was 32...c2 33.Nc1, but now 33\u2026Qd1? would have been too straightforward, because 34.Qb3+ Kf8 (34...Kh8?? 35.Rc6! and white wins) 35.Ra7 Ne7 36.Qb4 Re8 (36...Qd8 37.a4) 37.Qa3 would only lead to white advantage. Of course, instead of the weak 33...Qd1 black may develop something quieter, but that would eventually lead to positions resembling the game continuation with a slight advantage for white, or in the best case to transpose to game continuation.}   33.Qe4   {This is a great post for the white queen. It controls important a8 and c2 squares, it chases the black knight away from f5 and keeps on pressuring the e5 pawn.}   33\u2026Ne7 34.Nc1 c2   {The black pawn on c2 is really irritating for white. Without removing it, it will be impossible for white to progress. Fortunately white has an excellent solution at his disposal and it is perfect timing for that, as black doesn\u2019t have any direct threats at the moment.}   35.a4!   {White's plan is very simple: White wants to create a competitor to black\u2019s c-pawn by advancing the a-pawn as far as possible. At some point black must start paying attention to it and lighten the defence of c-pawn.}   35\u2026Rf8 36.Ra8   {It is time for white to exchange rooks.}   36\u2026h6   {Of course black can change rooks himself 36...Rxa8 37.Qxa8+ Kf7 38.Qe4, but both following continuations leave white on top: 38\u2026Qc3 (38...Qc6 39.Qxc6 Nxc6 40.Kg3 Ke6 41.Kf3 Na5 with White\u2019s advantage.) 39.a5 Qd2 40.Qc4+ Kf8}   37.Rxf8+ Kxf8 38.a5 Qxa5!   {There is no point for black to delay taking the pawn any more. Instead it is important for him to take control of the important d5 square for defensive purposes.}   39.Qxc2 Qd5   {The pain in white's flesh has been removed at last and white is a clear pawn up. On top of that black has one isolated pawn, which defence might prove difficult in the future. The black queen on d5 helps his defence and it is not easy to get her leave that square. Black's assets for successful defence consist of: all pawns are on the king side and queens are still on board. Here I consider that my chances to win this game compared to draw are fifty-fifty.}   40.Nd3 Kf7   {This move was a total surprise for me! I had imagined that the knight ending after 41.Qc4 would be winning, but things are not that clear. Fortunately the move came in just a couple of days before my vacation, so I could delve into this knight ending for a month without let my clock to tick. After a long hesitation I came to the conclusion that it would be impossible to win this knight ending. By co-incidence I saw the ending in Kivim\u00e4ki-Pyshkin in Estrin Memorial, where my friend Kivim\u00e4ki was able to hold a draw in a knight ending with a pawn down. My own analysis led to similar kind of position. So, I decided to keep the queens on board for a while, although I couldn't be sure about any brighter future. That half-intuitive decision I never had to regret!}   41.f3 Kg8 42.Qc3 Nc6 43.h4!   {White wants to push the pawn to h5, where it would restrict even more about black's alternatives. In that case white's long term plan could be to land his knight into g6 and threaten a mate along the back rank. If nothing else, this would force black to give up d5 for his queen. Another aim was that in case of g7-g6 and exchange of the pawns, black's remaining pawns would be as far as possible from each other, which would make black's defence difficult. Naturally white needs to ensure that he can support the pawn on h5, but that is not a problem.}   43\u2026Kh7 44.h5 Kh8   45.Kg3 Qe6?!   {Black's first mistake, if you don't count his opening variation a mistake, where I was able to make my novelty. Black shouldn't have given up the d5 square under any circumstances without a fight. Of course I could have gotten d5 after a long fight, but I believe it would have taken some 20 moves more. Now all this was handed to me on the plate.   A strange co-incidence happened here. A couple of times my opponent had numbered his moves incorrectly. I had bypassed those mistakes and with his next move the numbering was correct. But now something happened, which hadn't happened before: my opponent had marked my move as 45.Kh3. I was absolutely sure that I had written down to the card 45.Kg3, but I started to hesitate as my candidate moves had been 45.Kh3 and 45.Kg3. Even more embarrassing was that my 45th move was the last move before time control and I had only one day left. If I would have made a protest and I would be wrong, I would get a five day penalty and lose on time. For a moment I was even thinking to play my 46th move normally and look at his reaction, as if my king would be on his opinion on h3 in check, he would notify me. In that case my penalty would come on move 46 and not on 45 and I would be clear.   After a lengthy pondering I came to a conclusion that I couldn\u2019t possible have been able to write down a different move to the card and to the protocol, because I always double check them twice. So I emailed to my opponent a notification that he had written a wrong move to his card and he could naturally move something else, if he wishes. It took three painfully long days before my opponent replied. He was sorry for his mistake and confirmed that my move had been 45.Kg3 and his move is 45\u2026Qe6. He kept his move the same and the only conclusion is that he had genuinely made a mistake in writing the moves down.   After this episode my paranoia grew to the extent that I started to take photocopies of all my cards to be able to verify that my move had been written down correctly and the card would signed. Perhaps one more factor to take additional measurements was that at this point of the tournament I started to fight for the medals. Another decision I took was that I would never play by post any more as webserver solves all this kind of problems. Webserver\u2019s problem is that 50\/10 thinking time is too quick for about half of the WCC finalists. To my opinion ICCF shouldn't push these players to play by post only because they want to play slower, as roughly 30% of the players have wished for slower playing tempo on server.}   46.Qa3 Kh7 47.Nc5 Qe7   {Black can't allow the exchange of the queens any more.}   48.Qd3+ Kh8 49.Qd5   {We can see now the consequences of black giving up the d5 square for his queen. Now white queen lands there and starts to control the game.}   49\u2026Nd8 50.Kf2!   {White king moves to e2, from where it can proceed to d3 and e4 after exchanges.}   50\u2026Nf7 51.Ke2 Kg8   {I had considered my position as winning since move 50 and from here my winning plan is almost forcing. My intention is to play 52.Nd7 and to make sure that there is not any more direct winning variation I let Fritz to calculate these positions from here on. I have to admit that I have probably never before disagreed so much with the engine about the variations as I did now.}   52.Nd7   {Gradually white manages to paralyse black completely. Black's next move is practically forced, because black has great problems on his back rank. 52...Qe8 53.Qb5!   Surprisingly this self-evident move was only 10th on Fritz list. Fritz would prefer to play the white king back to f2 and g3 without being able to proceed after that any more. But this is not surprising for engines. The move played n the game threatens 54.Nf6+.}   53\u2026Kh8   {Alternatives were scarce. After 53...Qa8 54.Kf2 e4 55.f4 Kh8 56.Kg3 white wins rather quickly. Another alternative could be 53...Nd6 54.Qc6 and the black knight can't move due to threat Nf6+, so 54\u2026Qe6 55.Kf2 e4 56.Qa8+ Ne8 57.Nc5}   54.Qb8!   {Simple and strong! Fritz prefers 54.e4 and 54.Kf2, which are tame.}   54...Qxb8 55.Nxb8   {This is an easy win for white.}   55\u2026e4   {This is practically forced, because otherwise white king just marches to e4 and drops the pawn off.}   56.fxe4 Ne5 57.Na6   {White's knight is coming via c5 or b4 to d3 to chase the black knight away.}   57\u2026Kg8 58.Nc5 Kf7 59.Nd3 Nc4 60.Kf3 g5 61.hxg6+ Kxg6   {This is exactly the situation I was aiming by the pawn push to h5. Black king should stand behind the e pawn and simultaneously and remotely to defend the h-pawn. Impossible.}   62.Kf4 Kf6 63.Nf2 Ke6 64.Ng4 h5 65.Nh2 Kf7 66.e5 1-0   {This was my best game in the WCC final and it even had opening theoretical importance.}   &nbsp;   <\/textarea><iframe src='https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-chessboard\/pgn4web\/board.html?am=n&amp;d=3000&amp;ig=f&amp;iv=0&amp;ih=s&amp;ss=26&amp;ps=d&amp;pf=d&amp;lch=E6CC98&amp;dch=AD826A&amp;bbch=E0E0E0&amp;hm=b&amp;hch=ABABAB&amp;bd=c&amp;cbch=F0F0F0&amp;ctch=696969&amp;hd=j&amp;md=f&amp;tm=13&amp;fhch=000000&amp;fhs=14&amp;fmch=190CCC&amp;fcch=595959&amp;hmch=E0E0E0&amp;fms=14&amp;fcs=m&amp;cd=i&amp;bch=FFFFFF&amp;fp=13&amp;hl=t&amp;fh=b&amp;fw=p&amp;pi=pgn4web_2084df7f' frameborder='0' width='100%' height='268' scrolling='no' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>your web browser and\/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard; alternatively your wordpress theme might suppress the html iframe tag from articles or excerpts<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>===<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;&#8212;&#8211;Previous Next&#8212;&#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p> 11th World Correspondence Chess Championship World Championship 11 Final (1983-1989) TD Boese, Karl-Heinz-&gt; Gillman, Reg 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 Score 01 GDR Baumbach, Fritz \u2654 1 1 \u00bd 1 \u00bd \u00bd 1 \u00bd 1 \u00bd \u00bd 1 1 \u00bd 10.5 02 URS [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":578,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":58,"href":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1915\/revisions\/2030"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kszgk.com\/iccf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}