1st world correspondence championship
1947
| Group B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Tot | ||
| 1 | Viaud, Adolphe | FRA | – | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 5 |
| 2 | Sturm, Max | BWI | 0 | – | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4½ |
| 3 | Benkö, Francisco | ARG | ½ | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3½ |
| 4 | Pires | POR | 0 | ½ | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2½ |
| 5 | Mathot, Georges | BEL | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Souza | BRA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Ritson-Morry, William | ENG | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 1½ |
| Group D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Tot | ||
| 1 | Van Scheltinga, Theo Daniël | NED | – | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | Biscay, Pierre | FRA | 0 | – | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4½ |
| 3 | Koshnitsky, Gregory Simon | AUS | 1 | 0 | – | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 3½ |
| 4 | Paroniek | SUI | 0 | ½ | 1 | – | ½ | 1 | ½ | 3½ |
| 5 | Gooris, Emile | BEL | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | – | 1 | 1 | 2½ |
| 6 | Moser | CZE | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 1½ |
| 7 | Flórián | HUN | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | – | ½ |
| Group E | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Tot | ||
| 1 | Purdy, Cecil John Seddon | AUS | – | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 4½ |
| 2 | Baijot, Léon | BEL | 0 | – | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Bigot, Louis | FRA | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 1 | ½ | 2½ |
| 4 | Krausz, Otto | SUI | ½ | ½ | 0 | – | ½ | 1 | 2½ |
| 5 | Frantzen | NOR | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | – | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Nielsen, Christian | DEN | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | – | ½ |
| 7 | Reilly | IRL | – | – | – | – | – | – | w |
| Group H | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Tot | ||
| 1 | Collins, John William | USA | – | ½ | ½ | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | Van ‘t Veer, Paul | NED | ½ | – | ½ | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Wood, Gabriel | ENG | ½ | ½ | – | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Frutsaert, Roger | BEL | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 |
| 5 | Martin | ARG | – | – | – | – | w |
| 6 | Waldmann | BRA | – | – | – | – | w |
| 7 | Renaud | FRA | – | – | – | – | w |
| Group K | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Tot | ||
| 1 | Madsen, Svend Åge | NOR | – | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5½ |
| 2 | Mikulka, Rudolf | CZE | ½ | – | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 3½ |
| 3 | Roura | ARG | 0 | ½ | – | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 3½ |
| 4 | Carlsson, Henrik | SWE | 0 | ½ | 0 | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3½ |
| 5 | Rezende | BRA | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | – | ½ | 1 | 2½ |
| 6 | Clerkx | BEL | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | – | 1 | 2½ |
| 7 | Grant | USA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 |
77 players started in the preliminaries and one more (Adam) was immediately admitted to the final in recognition of his pre-war results. [2] gives four games. The remaining one (Frutsaert-Collins) comes from [3]. [2] has that game too, but claims it is from the European correspondence championship, even though black was an American and – as far as I know – there was no European correspondence championship at that point.
The preliminaries started in 1947; the final started in 1950 and ended in 1953 with a victory for Purdy. In the preliminaries, Baijot had ended second in his group, right after Purdy.
Wanted
- Almost all games.
- First names for Pires, Souza (Luíz Castro?), Paroniek, Moser, Flórián (Tibor?), Frantzen, Reilly (Brian Patrick?), Martin, Waldmann, Renaud (Georges?), Roura, Rezende, Clerkx and Grant.
Sources
- T. Harding, The games of the world correspondence chess championships I-VII, Batsford 1979
- ChessBase
- W.Perquin & R. Noordijk, Hoe amateurs schaak spelen, Van Goor 1949
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