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World Cup 21 comes to an end

Monday, October 5, 2020: – the winner is GM Matthias Gleichmann (GER) & the silver medalist SIM Wojciech Krzyżanowski (POL)!

Organizer of the 21st World Cup played through the server is Poland, and on its behalf Mariusz Wojnar (POL).

This is the fifth edition of the World Cup organized by Poland. The previous four editions (3, 6, 7 and 18) covered 7,066 (sic!) entries. It is worth mentioning that Poland is organizing the World Cup for the sixth time - the edition on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of ICCF - which will start on 2021-02-15 (registration has already started)!

The competition was organized in three stages: preliminaries, semi-finals and the final.

The World Cup preliminaries began on 2015-10-01 with 928 entries (718 players from 52 countries) in 72 server sections and ended on 2017-11-09. The semi-finals were played from 2017-06-30 to 2019-04-18 with 143 players in 11 server sections.

With the participation of 13 competitors, the ICCF 21 World Cup final (norms: GM=8 SIM=7,5 IM=6,5) was launched on 2019-06-06. Official start date 2019-06-30, no end date. The final is directed by IA Józef Lubas (POL).

Currently, the final is about to end. Yesterday (2020-10-04) the game ended (2 more games remaining), which decided that the winner of the world cup is, for the third time, GM Matthias Gleichmann (GER), scoring 7.0 (+1) points from 12 games (wins=3 SB=40.25) (he has one more game left) and the silver medalist is SIM Wojciech Krzyżanowski (POL), with 7.0 points (wins=2 SB=39.50). Previously, an identical result of 7.0 / 12 gave him only 8th place in the 19th World Cup. This proves a very even level of games at the highest level. The last 2 games will decide on 3rd place.

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Updated on 2020-10-15

On 2020-10-13, another game ended and we already know the bronze medalist - he is IM Ivan Ivec (CRO) with 6.5 points (wins=1). There is only one game left that does not affect the final order of the tournament's top players.

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List of previous editions of the World Cup:

Edition Tr TO Organizer Term Registrations Prel Semi-final Final Winner
Total Players Fed  start start start end
1 p CSR J. Barbora 1968-1977 1928   43 1968-01-01 1970-06-08 1973-10-18 1976-12-31 Karl-Heinz Maeder (GER)
2 p GDR Hans Rabold 1971-1983 2119   42 1971-06-01 1974-07-01 1977-11-15 1983 Gennadi Nesis (URS)
3 p POL Ernest Kocem/ Witold Bielecki 1974-1986 2619   43 1974-06-15 1977 1981-06-20 1986 Nikolai Rabinovich (URS)
4 p ITA Armando Silli 1977-1989 3289   58 1977-09-01 1981-01-01 1984-01-01 1989-11-30 Albert Popov (URS)
5A p USA Theodore Bullockus 1981-1994 4684   57 1981-06-01 1984-06-01 1987-12-20 1994-06-30 Alexandr Frolov (UKR)
5B p USA Theodore Bullockus 1981-1994 x x x x x 1987-12-20 1994-06-30 Gert Jan Timmermann (NED)
6 p POL Witold Bielecki 1986-1999 3604     1986-11-30 1990-04-01 1994-12-15 1999-12-31 Olita Rause (LAT)
7 p POL Witold Bielecki 1986-2001 x x x x x 1994-12-15 2001-06-30 Aleksey Lepikhov (UKR)
8 p GDR Thomas Rondio 1990-2002 2343   40 1990-11-01 1994-04-15 1998-01-05 2002-02-13 Horst Staudler (GER)
9 p GDR Thomas Rondio 1990-2001 x x x x x 1998-01-15 2001-10-15 Edgar Prang (GER)
10 p NED Gerard van den Haak 1994-2005 1540   36 1994-09-01 1998-01-05 2001-10-01 2005 Frank Schroder (GER)
11 p, f, e ENG Alan Rawlings/ Jo Wharrier 1997-2011 1080 883 49 1997-10-01 2003-03-15 2008-09-01 2011-02-06 Reinhard Moll (GER)
12e e CZE Josef Mrkvička 2000-2007 407   49 2000-09-01 2003-03-01 2005-06-30 2007-08-30 Reinhard Moll (GER)
12p p CZE Josef Mrkvička 2000-2013 627     2000-09-01 2005-06-30 2009-10-12 2013-04-28 Matthias Gleichmann (GER)
ICCF50e e ICCF   2001 2233     2001-09-01 1/4=2003-10-20, 1/2=2006-04-01 2009-03-01 2012-01-16 Csaba Jergler (HUN)
ICCF50p p ICCF Gian-Maria Tani/ Jaromír Canibal 2001 728     2001-09-01 x 2006-06-15   Yoav Dothan (ISR)
13 p, e AUT Rudolf Hofer 2002-2012 737     2002-12-20 2006-01-01 2009-06-01 2012-01-07 Reinhard Moll (GER)
14 p, e, s AUS George Stibal 2004-2012 671     2004-12-01 2007-03-25 2009-06-15 2012-12-13 Reinhard Moll (GER)
15 e, s SVK Jan Helbich 2006-2015 639     2006-11-15 2009-03-25 2012-01-15 2015-01-09 Klemen Šivic (SLO)
16 p GER Hartmut Höbel 2006-2016 216     2006-12-15 2010-06-01 2013-01-07 2016-06-20 Uwe Nogga (GER)
17 s ESP Carlos Flores 2009-2017 711     2009-06-01 2011-11-01 2014-04-28 2017-05-23 Matthias Gleichmann (GER)

18

(ICCF60)

s POL Mariusz Wojnar 2011-2019 844 685 53 2011-10-30 2013-08-30 2015-06-30 2019-07-16 Reinhard Moll (GER) & Stefan Ulbig (GER)
19 (ICCF60) p ITA Gian-Maria Tani 2011-2016 99   20 2011-10-31 x 2014-07-01 2016-10-03 Thomas Herfurth (GER)
20 s RUS Andrey Pavlikov 2013-? 1001 816 55 2013-11-30 2015-09-15 2017-09-01 ? Sergey Kishkin (RUS)
21 s POL Mariusz Wojnar 2015-? 928 718 52 2015-10-01 2017-06-30 2019-06-30 ? Matthias Gleichmann (GER)
22 s NED Joop Jansen 2017-? 871     2017-12-15 2019-09-30      
23 s CZE Josef Mrkvička 2020-? 792     2020-09-30        
ICCF70 s POL Mariusz Wojnar 2021-?       2021-02-15        
                         

Legend: Tr=transmision, p=post, f=fax, e=email, s=serwer

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