In August 1928 the Internationaler Correspondensschachbund (ICSB), was created under the leadership of Erich Otto Freienhagen in Berlin.
[citation needed] There appears to have been a major row at the December 1928 meeting which caused the splitting off of Freienhagen (and possibly others) from the Duhrssen faction.
Here K. Allmendinger and Dr. E. Dyckhoff, both German, joined the governing body, and F. Kunert (Austria), M. Seibold (Germany), Dr. K. Schørring (Denmark), V. Geier (Poland) and H.L.
On 30 August 1931 there was a meeting in Dresden where it was stated that 43% of the competitors in the tournaments were not German, thus demonstrating its truly international nature.
Compared to their size and significance in terms of chess, there were very few players from the Soviet Union or Great Britain.
Due to later changes Marcel Duchamp, Seibold, Herzog, Johansson and Dr. Rey also fulfilled this task.
On 22 April 1934, the Federation's governing body met for the sixth time and there was the first meeting of IFSB members in Berlin.
In January 1936 Fernschach announced the names of the first six countries to join: Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain, Norway, Latvia and Czechoslovakia.
[citation needed] The IFSB's next meeting was held in Munich on 31 August 1936, as the OTB Olympiad was being played there.
A working party was formed to devise a system for the individual Correspondence Chess World Championship, whose members were Dr. Adam, Chalupetzky, Alekhine, Duchamp, Dr. M. Henneberger, J. Nielsen and G. Stalda.
However, the contest did not take place due to the outbreak of World War II, and was only organized years later by the ICCA.
The same was true of individual tournaments in the United States, and it was impossible to involve either European or Asian competitors.
The last pre-war issue of Fernschach gave the 1938-1939 BM crosstable, as well as the results of the Correspondence Chess Olympiad of European countries.
The leadership of IFSB looked back at the past and expressed hope for a better future, in the following quotation: "In these fateful hard times, we are sending our voice to all of our friends: to each chess-organiser of national chess federations, to chess masters, to all of our members and sponsors, to the subscribers of our monthly journal and to all who are somehow connected with the IFSB and its work.
We hope for a future, in which instead of deadly projectiles, again the chess post-cards shall wander through the boundaries of nations as heralds of international understanding in the world.