ICCF ( Eng. ICCF - International Correspondence Chess Federation ) - The International Federation of the chess game by correspondence .
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The ICCHF was created in 1946 as the successor to the previously existing organization IFSB ( German Internationaler Fernschachbund ), founded in 1928 and uniting only European chess players. From the moment of its foundation until 1951, the organization was called ICCA ( English ICCA , International Correspondence Chess Association ).
The Russian counterpart of ICCHF is RAZSh - Russian Association of Correspondence Chess.
Goals
The goals of the ICCHF are the development of the theory and practice of international correspondence chess, the organization and holding of personal and team championships of the world, and international tournaments by correspondence.
In the framework of the competitions, the ICCF assigns chess titles up to the grandmaster . All ranks, ratings and competitions held by the ICCF are recognized by FIDE .
Initially, competitions under the auspices of the ICChF were held exclusively using ordinary mail , but in recent years, with the development of new technologies, electronic mail has been used along with it.
History
December 2, 1928 Dane J. Keemink and four Germans - R. Dührssen , G.V. von Massov , K. Laue and E. Freienhagen ( E. Freienhagen ) - founded the International Penalties Chess Union (Internationaler Fernschachbund). Freienhagen was elected President, von Massov was Secretary General [1] .
Initially, the organization recognized only individual membership, but in 1935 the participation of entire countries was allowed, and thus the IFFSB turned into a European correspondence chess association. Fernschach magazine , founded in 1929, was distributed in 60 European countries by the time the last issue was released in 1939 [2] .
With the outbreak of war, the organization ceased operations.
After the war, IKChA became the successor of the IFSHB. It was created in 1946 and already in 1947 held the first international chess tournament by correspondence. In 1949, the first correspondence chess olympiad was held.
In 1951, ICCHA received its current name: ICCHF.
ICCHF holds several types of competitions: world championship, women's world championship, olympiad. All competitions are held separately for each sector of the ICHF (Europe, Latin America, North America / Pacific and Africa / Asia).
Since 2004, the ICCHF has been publishing the quarterly online magazine ICCF AMICI.
Competition
IFFS Champions [1]
1928-1929. Edward Dickoff (Germany)
1929-1930. Edward Dickoff (Germany)
1930-1931. Edward Dickoff (Germany)
1931-1932. Hans Muller (Austria)
1932-1933. Marcel Duchamp (France)
1933-1934. G. Persson (Sweden)
1934-1935. Paul Keres (Estonia)
1936-1937. Milan Widmar (Yugoslavia)
1937-1938. Miklos Szigeti (Hungary)
1938-1939. E. Adam (Germany)
World Championship
Information from the ICCHF official website. The list of world champions for January 2013 is as follows:
- Cecil Purdy ( Australia ),
- Vyacheslav Ragozin ( USSR ),
- Alberic O'Kelly ( Belgium ),
- Vladimir Zagorovsky (USSR),
- Hans Berliner ( USA ),
- Horst Rittner ( GDR ),
- Jacob Estrin (USSR),
- Jörn Slot ( Denmark ),
- Tynu Yym (USSR),
- Victor Palčiauskas (USA),
- Friedrich Baumbach (GDR),
- Grigory Sanakoev ( Russia ),
- Mikhail Umansky (Russia),
- Tõnu ım ( Estonia ),
- Geert Jan Timmermann ( Netherlands ),
- Tunc Hamarat ( Austria ),
- Joop van Oster (Netherlands).
- Ivar Berne ( Norway ) [3] .
- Marjan Schemrl ( Slovenia )
- Ulrich Stefan ( Germany )
- Alexander Dronov ( Russia ) [4]
Women's World Cup
The World Women’s Correspondence Chess Championships have been held since 1968, and so far 8 competition finals have been held.
The current world champion is Olga Sukhareva (Russia). Her predecessors were: Olga Rubtsova (USSR), Laura Yakovleva (USSR), Lyubov Kristol ( Israel ), Lyudmila Belavenets (USSR), Lyubov Kristol (Israel) and Alessandra Riegler ( Italy ).
Olympics
Correspondence chess Olympiads have been held since 1949. To date, 17 Olympiads have been held. The team representing each country includes 6 boards for men and 4 boards for women.
The first winner was Hungary (1949–1952), then Czechoslovakia (1952–1955), the USSR (1958–1961), the USSR (1962–1964), Czechoslovakia (1965–1968), the USSR (1968–1972), and the USSR (1972– 1976), USSR (1977–1982), Great Britain (1982–1987), USSR (1987–1995), Czechoslovakia / Germany (1995–1999, the title is divided according to the principle of “amici sumus” (“we are all friends”, ICCF motto) ), Germany (1998-2004). At the 1987-1995 Olympics, despite the demise of the GDR and the USSR, these teams retained the name and composition until the end of the tournament in accordance with the rules of the ICChF.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Grodzensky S. Ya. , Romanov I.Z. Progress in an envelope. - M .: FiS, 1982.- S. 112.
- ↑ Highlights in the history of correspondence chess . Date of treatment June 21, 2008. Archived March 13, 2012. (eng.)
- ↑ New WCCC World Champion! (January 9, 2006). Date of treatment July 9, 2008. Archived March 13, 2012.
- ↑ New World Champion! (July 19, 2010). Date of treatment September 17, 2010. Archived March 13, 2012.