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International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster
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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.
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.
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.
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