- ICCF Belarus
ICCF Belarus belongs to the
ICCF national member federations .History
The first mention of
Correspondence Chess inBelarus was the publication of the game between the towns ofVitebsk andTver (Russia ) 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 , 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 theUSSR , sometimes in international tournaments including World Cups, semi-finals ofWorld Chess Championship andMaster class 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 4thUSSR Team Championship (after Russia,Moscow andLeningrad , in 1977) and the first place of Dmitry V. Lybin in the 7th (and last) Championship of theUSSR 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 ,Argentina ,Uruguay ,England andFrance . The national team took part in its firstOlympiad Preliminary (XIII).Titled players
Grandmaster
*Dmitry Vitalievich Lybin
International Master
*Abram Yakovlevich Roizman
*Mikhail Ivanovich Shablinsky
*Sergey Vadimovich Toldaev
*Anatoly Pavlovich Voitsekh
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