Dr Victor Palciauskas is an American grandmaster of correspondence chess

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...

, most famous for being the tenth ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1978 and 1984.

He placed 2nd= (undefeated 5/8 +2 -0 =6) in a "champion of champions" tournament, the ICCF 50 Years World Champion Jubilee, behind Mikhail Umansky

Mikhail Umansky

Mikhail Markovich Umansky , born January 21, 1952 in Stavropol, then USSR, was a Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess, who was the 13th ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1989 and 1998...

. This was a special invitational correspondence tournament involving all living former ICCF World Champions—see World Champions Jubilee Tournament (2003).

External links

• Palciauskas at correspondencechess.com
• Palciauskas at chessmail.com