Australian Correspondence Chess Championship
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The Australian Correspondence Chess
Championship is organised by the Correspondence Chess League of Australia (CCLA). The event was held three times before 1937, with O Ludlow winning once and F M Hallman winning twice. Regular championships have been held since 1937 with a break from 1939 to 1945 due to World War II
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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...
Championship is organised by the Correspondence Chess League of Australia (CCLA). The event was held three times before 1937, with O Ludlow winning once and F M Hallman winning twice. Regular championships have been held since 1937 with a break from 1939 to 1945 due to World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
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Australian Correspondence Chess Championship
- 1937 C.J.S. Purdy
- 1948 C.J.S. Purdy
- 1950 Romanas ArlauskasRomanas ArlauskasRomanas Arlauskas was a Lithuanian-born Australian chess master.Arlauskas played at sixth board in an unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936...
- 1955 Max Salm
- 1959 Karlis OzolsKarlis OzolsKārlis Ozols was a Latvian-Australian chess player.Ozols represented Latvia on eighth board in the unofficial Chess Olympiad, at Munich 1936, where he won the individual bronze medal. He also played on fourth board in the 7th Olympiad at Stockholm 1937.In 1937, he tied for 17-18th in Kemeri...
, John Kellner - 1961 John Kellner
- 1963 Lloyd Fell
- 1966 Alan Miller, Max Salm
- 1969 Clive Barnett
- 1972 Peter Thompson
- 1975 Michael Woodhams
- 1977 Irvis Venclovas, Greg Ware
- 1979 Norton Jacobi, Roy Weigand
- 1981 Kevin HarrisonKevin HarrisonKevin Alexander Harrison was an American football linebacker for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was originally signed by the Cleveland Browns as an undrafted free agent in 2005...
- 1983 Simon Jenkinson
- 1985 Lloyd Fell
- 1987 Guy WestGuy WestGuy West is a chess International Master, and a former Australian Chess Champion.West was born in Babinda, Queensland, and moved to Melbourne when he was 12...
- 1989 Frank Hutchings
- 1991 Jose Silva
- 1993 Frank Hutchings
- 1995 Bill Jordan
- 1997 Clive Barnett Stewart Booth
- 1999 Mike Juradowitch
- 2001 Stewart Booth
- 2003 Gary BensonGary BensonGary Benson is a professional poker player and sports bettor. He has won a World Series of Poker bracelet in addition to other titles as a poker player.- Early life and career :...
- 2004 B. Oates
- 2005 Dr C. Barnett, J-P. Fenwick