ICCF Belarus belongs to the ICCF national member federations

ICCF national member federations

The International Correspondence Chess Federation national member federations number 83 nations, divided into four geographical zones:*Zone 1: Europe *Zone 2: Latin America...

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History

The first mention of Correspondence Chess

Correspondence chess

Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, usually through a correspondence chess server, through email or by the postal system; less common methods which have been employed include fax and homing pigeon...

 in Belarus

Belarus

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 was the publication of the game between the towns of Vitebsk

Vitebsk

Vitebsk, also known as Viciebsk or Vitsyebsk , is a city in Belarus, near the border with Russia. The capital of the Vitebsk Oblast, in 2004 it had 342,381 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth largest city...

 and Tver

Tver

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 (Russia

Russia

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) in the Russian "Chess Messenger" of 1914, which finished in a draw.

During the 1920s and 1930s the newspaper "Star" organized some tournaments and national masters V. Silich and A. Manevich played successfully in USSR competitions.

The Correspondence Chess Commission was founded in 1959 and organized under the initiative of well-known master Alexey Sokolsky

Alexey Sokolsky

Alexey Pavlovich Sokolsky was a Ukrainian-Belarusian chess player of International Master strength in over-the board chess, a noted correspondence chess player, and an opening theoretician....

, the first Correspondence Chess championship of the Belorusian SSR (1961-1965). For the next "Soviet" period (1961-1991) Belorusian players took part in individual and team competitions of the USSR, sometimes in international tournaments including World Cups, semi-finals of World Chess Championship

World Chess Championship

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 and Master class

Master class

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 tournaments.

The principal achievements were the 2-5 place of Jakov I. Kamenetsky in the 7th European Championship (1974), the first place of Anatoly P. Voitsekh in the 11th Championship of the USSR (1975), the 4th place of the Belorusian team in the 4th USSR Team Championship (after Russia, Moscow

Moscow

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 and Leningrad

Leningrad

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 , in 1977) and the first place of Dmitry V. Lybin in the 7th (and last) Championship of the USSR Central Chess Club (1991-1993). Jakov Kamenetsky and A. Belousenko were successful as commission leaders and organizers of teams and competitions.

After some inactive "post soviet" years, Vitaly E. Kornilovich (winner of the last Belorusian SSR Championship) headed the commission in 1995.

On this same year BCCC affiliated to ICCF as an effective member, acting intensively despite some difficult circumstances.

During 1995-1999 three Belorusian Championships took place, the teams began friendly matches with Germany

Germany

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, Argentina

Argentina

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, Uruguay

Uruguay

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, England

England

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 and France

France

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. The national team took part in its first Olympiad Preliminary (XIII).

International Master

• Abram Yakovlevich Roizman
• Mikhail Ivanovich Shablinsky
• Sergey Vadimovich Toldaev
• Anatoly Pavlovich Voitsekh