Jørn Sloth
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Jørn Sloth is a Danish chess
FIDE Master and grandmaster of the correspondence chess
, most famous for being the eighth ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1975 and 1980.
Sloth obtained the IMC title in 1973 and the GMC title in 1978. He was the youngest player ever to win the Correspondence World Champion title.
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
FIDE Master and grandmaster of the 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...
, most famous for being the eighth ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1975 and 1980.
Sloth obtained the IMC title in 1973 and the GMC title in 1978. He was the youngest player ever to win the Correspondence World Champion title.