International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster is a title created by the FIDE in 1953, second only to that of world correspondence champion. Now awarded by the International Correspondence Chess Federation. The US has four ICCGMs: the former world champions Hans Jack Berliner and Vytas Victor Palciauskas as well as Joseph DeMauro and Alik Zilberberg. The English ICCGMs are John Brookes, Ian Brooks, Peter Clarke, Richard Hall, Adrian Hollis, Maurice Johnson, Peter Markland, Peter Millican, Jonathan Penrose, Nigel Povah, Michael Prizant, Keith Richardson and Simon Webb. Canadian ICCGMs are Jonathan Berry, Jean Hebert, Robert Kiviaho, Wolfram Schoen, Duncan Suttles and Alexander Ugge. Australia has given us the former world champion Cecil John Seddon Purdy as well as Romanas Arlauskas and Lucius Endzelins. The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world. ... Hans Jack Berliner (born January 27, 1929) Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, is a former World Correspondence Chess Champion. ... Dr Victor Palciauskas (born October 3, 1941 in Kaunas, Lithuania as Vytas Palciauskas) is an US grandmaster of correspondence chess, most famous for being the tenth ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1978 and 1984. ... Jonathan Penrose (born October 7th 1933, in Colchester) is an English chess player (International Master (1961) and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1983) who won the British Chess Championship ten times from 1958 to 1969. ... Simon Webb (June 10, 1949 - March 14, 2005) was a British chess player. ... Duncan Suttles (b. ... Cecil John Seddon Purdy, 1906 - 1979 was an Australian chess International Master (IM) and inaugral World Correspondence Chess champion. ...

Russian/Soviet ICCGMs have included the World Champions Yakov Estrin, Vyacheslav Ragozin, Grigory Sanakoev, Mikhail Umansky and Vladimir Zagorovsky as well as other players such as Igor Bondarevsky, Georgy Borisenko, Peter Dubinin, Sergey Grodzensky, Abram Khasin, Sergey Khlusevich, Igor Kopylov and Sergei Korolev. Germany has produced world champions Friedrich Baumbach and Horst Rittner as well as Volker-Michael Anton, Andreas Bachmann, Heinrich Burger, Stephan Busemann, Hans-Marcus Elwert, Klaus Engel, Horst Handel, Paul Heilemann, Peter Hertel, Heinz-Erich van Kempen, Siegfried Kluve and Martin Kreuzer. Yakov Borisovich Estrin (April 21, 1923–February 2, 1987) was a Russian chess International Grandmaster and theoretician, most famous for being the seventh ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1972 and 1976. ... Viacheslav Vasilyevich Ragozin (October 8, 1908 – March 11, 1962) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster, an International Arbiter of chess, and a World Correspondence Chess Champion. ... Igor Zakharovich Bondarevsky (May 12, 1913, Rostov-on-the-Don, Russia – June 14, 1979, Piatigorsk) was a Soviet Russian chess grandmaster in both over the board and correspondence chess, International Judge, trainer and author of chess books. ... Dr Friedrich (Fritz) Baumbach (born September 8, 1935 in Weimar, Germany) is a German chess grandmaster of correspondence chess, most famous for being the eleventh ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1983 and 1989. ...

Other titleholders include Mohammed Al-Thani, Roberto Alvarez, Ulf Andersson (Sweden), Vytautas Andriulaitis, Erik Bang, Olaf Barda, John Barlow, Ruben Berdichesky, Ivar Bern, Gabriel Blasberg, Maksim Blokh, Peter Boll, Ing. Breazu, Stefan Brzozka, Anders Carlsson, Claudio Casabona, Jose Copie, Libor Danek, Massimo De Blasio, Ernst Eichhorn, Ove Ekjebaerg, Fabio Finocchiaro, Jozef Franzen, Niels Fries Nielsen, Marc Geenen, Dick Geet, Leon Gostisa, Gottardo Gottardi, Mladen Gudyev, Wolfgang Haessler, Tunc Hamarat, Curt Hansen, Abir Har-Even, gambiteer Jonny Hector (Sweden), Reijo Hiltunen, Jaroslav Hybl, Abram Idema, Jan du Jardin, Milan Jovcic, Ing. Keglevic, David Kilgour, Jaako Kivimaki, Tero Kokkila, Ake Lundqvist, Latvian Gambit expert Juan Sebastian Morgado (Argentina), M. Napolitano and Alberic O'Kelly de Galway. Ulf Andersson (born June 27, 1951 in Västerås, Sweden) is a leading Swedish chess player. ... Albéric OKelly de Galway (May 17, 1911, Brussels–October 3, 1980, Brussels) was a Belgian chess International Grandmaster, and an International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, most famous for being the third ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1959 and 1962. ...

External link

• International Correspondence Chess Federation