4th world correspondence championship

1957

Preliminary F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 Tot
1 Lim Hong Gee INA ½ 1 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 8
2 Coolen, Jozef BEL ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 8
3 Kornfilt, Villi TUR 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 7
4 Kallinger, Oskar AUT 0 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1
5 Kunerth, Werner Eberhard GER 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 6
6 Elgstrand SWE 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 1 0 1 1
7 Nielsen, Gunnar DEN 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 1 1 0 4
8 Honfi, Károly HUN ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 4
9 Hukel CZE 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ 1
10 Potter, Robert USA 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 1 2
11 Slatau YUG 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ½ 0 0

 

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 Tot
1 Zagorovsky, Vladimir Pavlovich URS ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 ½
2 Borisenko, Georgy Konstantinovich URS ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½
3 Arlauskas, Romanas AUS ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 1
4 Nyman, Sture Valentin SWE 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 7
5  GMC Dubinin, Pyotr Vasilievich URS 0 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 0 1 1 ½ ½
6 Coolen, Jozef BEL ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1
7 Tolush, Alexander Kazimirovich URS 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½
8  GMC Lundqvist, Åke SWE ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 5
9 Ahmad, Iqbal PAK 0 0 ½ ½ 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 5
10 Lim Hong Gee INA 0 ½ 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 ½ 5
11  IMC Bergraser, Volf FRA 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ 1 0 0 1
12 Dalkó, Nándor HUN 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 ½ 1 0 1 ½
13 Salm, Maxwell Charles USA ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 4

In principle, only the winners of each of the respective preliminaries qualified for the final. This meant that Coolen was not qualified, since his SB score was lower, but when one of winners of the preliminaries (Selhofer) dropped out, he was called up as a replacement as the best second. Rightfully so: in the final he proved his ability and gained the IMC title! Ragozin started in the final but died after one month’s play, his games were annulled. [3] has some games from the preliminary; [2] has one more. The crosstables and all the games from the final come from [1]. According to [4], the final was played from 02-01-1962 to 01-03-1965.

Wanted

  • A few games from the preliminary.
  • First names for Elgstrand, Hukel and Slatau.

Sources

  1. T. Harding, The games of the world correspondence chess championships I-VII, Batsford 1979
  2. De Volksgazet 07-03-1961
  3. ChessBase
  4. B. M. Kažić, International champion chess, Batsford 1974
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