THE INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE
CHESS FEDERATION – ICCF

FINAL of the 21st World
Correspondence Chess CHampionship

PRESS RELEASE
 
June 24th, 2005
 
The Final of the 21st World Correspondence Chess Championship will start on August 1st, 2005 with the following 15 participants in start order:

#	ICCF id	title	player	country	rating	
1	370241	GM	OOSTEROM, Joop van	NED	2777	
2	020377	SM	WALSH, Héctor	ARG	2649	
3	080716	GM	NIMTZ, Manfred	GER	2625	
4	070305	SM	JOÃO, Névio	BRA	2610	
5	081282	GM	NICKEL, Arno	GER	2590	
6	090064	SM	UGGE, Alexander J.	CAN	2567	
7	370913	SM	UNEN, Hans van	NED	2523	
8	950028	GM	LANC, Alois	SVK	2477	
9	950043	SM	RÁKAY, Kvetoslav	SVK	2492	
10	230358	SM	JAKOBETZ, László	HUN	2548	
11	450320	SM	BJUHR, Arne	SWE	2573	
12	081259	GM	BRANDING, Gerd	GER	2607	
13	080888	GM	BUSEMANN, Stephan	GER	2616	
14	080754	GM	SOLTAU, Achim	GER	2632	
15	140130	GM	PINKOVETSKY, Semen Uscherovich	RUS	2666	
 Elo average:	2597	 	Category:	XIV	
GM norm: 7½ / 14   •   SM norm: 6,0 / 14   •   IM norm: 5,0 / 14	

The Tournament Director is Mr. Witold Bielecki from Poland. 

For this tournament, the ICCF Playing Rules for tournaments played normally by email will apply. 

Those players who gain places 1-3 will be awarded a GM title. Ties will be broken according to the ICCF rules (first the Sonneborn-Berger, then results of the tied players against each other).

With very best wishes.
AMICI SUMUS,

J. Daniel Finkelstein
ICCF Title Tournaments Commissioner