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Name of Federation<\/strong>: Turkish Correspondence Chess Organization<\/p>\n

Year of Foundation<\/strong>: 1962<\/p>\n

ICCF Delegate<\/strong>: Ali Dikmen (asdikmen@hotmail.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

E-Mail contact<\/strong>: Aydin Satici (asatici@sisecam.com.tr<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Website<\/strong>: none<\/p>\n

Article provided by<\/strong>: Aydin Satici, updated by Ali Dikmen<\/p>\n

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Correspondence Chess in Turkey<\/strong><\/p>\n

The interest of correspondence chess in Turkey is started with the efforts of Jirayr \u00c7ak\u0131r (president of Turkish Chess Federation at that time) in 1965. The most active period in Turkish Correspondence Chess was between the years 1969-1978. Turkish CC started to be active again as from 1993 onwards, when Aydin Satici became ICCF delegate in 1990. During the 1970s, strong Turkish OTB players joined international events and obtained fairly good results. In the 1960s and 1970s, mainly with Vili Kornfilt’s encouragement (who was a believer of CC by heart) and the first Turkish OTB-IM Nevzat Suer and his Chess Magazine, Turkish National CC tournaments started and continued until 1980 in five different levels. The Istanbul Chess Association was the meeting point for the strongest OTB chess players, where teams for CC Olympiads and friendly matches between Turkey and other countries were established.<\/p>\n

Fazil Atabek gained the 1st CC-IM title for Turkey and he was also the ICCF delegate for Turkey. Here is a game from Atabek in the 8th Olympiad.<\/p>\n

Following successful results in the 7th and 8th CC Olympiads, Orhan Gunsav gained a 2nd IM title for Turkey, in 1975.<\/p>\n

Jirayr Cakir, who was the president of the Turkish OTB Chess Federation in 1970s, was one of the biggest supporters of CC in Turkey. Turkish CC Teams have been established in 1975 for the 2nd Ladies Olympiads, and for the Turkey-Belgium friendly match on 22 boards. Among the 22 players, Hayri Ozbilen, Tunc Hamarat, Bulent Pekand and Fatih Atakisi still play CC. Tunc Hamarat started his CC achievements as one of the strongest Turkish CC players in the 1970s and now lives in Austria. He is on the way to becoming a future CC World Champion!<\/p>\n

In the National tournaments held in the 1970s, Fatih Atakisi, Halil Ozmen, Aydin Umur were playing and they are still active as today’s CC players except Suat Soylu who became OTB Turkish Champion afterwards.<\/p>\n

In the 8th Olympiads Turkey won 6-0 against Brazil, 5\u00bd-\u00bd against Chile and drew 3-3 against Denmark.<\/p>\n

Another encounter has been between Turkey and Finland in a friendly match from 1978 to 1981. The Turkish CC Team lost 16-34 due to many withdrawals. One of the successes of the Turkish CC players is Turkey’s win against a Belgian team 25-21 in a friendly match finished in 1976.<\/p>\n

During the years 1995-1997 a friendly team match was organised with England. The result was even: 5-5.<\/p>\n

After OTB Turkish Champion Nevzat Suer’s untimely death in 1980, Turkish National CC activities almost stopped. A few CC players, though, continued their achievements in the international arena individually. Among them, Fatih Atakisi won his IM title (Turkey’s 3rd) in 1997 and SIM title (Turkey’s 1st) in 2001. He became 53rd European CC Champion with 11\/14. Fatih Atakisi also obtained the FIDE Master title in 2001. He has won 1st CC-GM norm in the 1st Asia-Europe Team Interzonal with 6\/8 on board 4.<\/p>\n

Aydin Satici became the 4th Turkish CC-IM after his 3rd place in the 60th European CC Championship.<\/p>\n

Osman Kosebay became the 5th Turkish CC-IM after his remarkable achievement in the 1st ICCF Email Championship with 9\u00bd out of 10.<\/p>\n

Both Aydin Satici and Osman Kosebay gained their SIM titles in 2002. They’ll be awarded in the ICCF Congress in Portugal. There are some other potential players as Halil Ozmen, Arif Kucukali and Turgut Tansel, who will soon bring more titles to Turkey. With the help of E-mail tournaments, the number of CC players in Turkey seem to be increasing very quickly.<\/p>\n

Since 1993, Turkey joins all international events and Turkish teams are now sharpened and organised with its three SIMs and the coming IM forces.<\/p>\n

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In 1999, Ali Dikmen took over ICCF delegate responsibilities from Aydin Satici.<\/p>\n

Turkey participates regularly in Olympiads starting\u00a0from 1998 (from 13th\u00a0edition, except of 16th & 19th)\u00a0and European Team Championships from 2005\u00a0(from 7th edition).<\/p>\n

Results of the\u00a01st School Correspondence Chess Championship in Turkey, organized in 2003 on www.satrancokulu.com<\/a> with the efforts of Ali Dikmen and Selim Gurcan, are presented below.<\/p>\n

2005 School Correspondence Chess Championship Final:<\/p>\n