Alberto Foguelman

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Alberto Foguelman (born October 13, 1923 in Buenos Aires ; † December 9, 2013 ibid) was an Argentine chess player and author of chess problems .

Foguelman was born in Buenos Aires but grew up in Mercedes , where he learned to play chess from his older brother at the age of six.

As a player, Foguelman represented Argentina at the Chess Olympiads in Leipzig in 1960 and in Warna in 1962 on the second reserve board, taking a total of 10.5 points from 16 games. Although he was one of the ten strongest players in Argentina, he said it was difficult for him to stand out as a contemporary of Óscar Panno , Miguel Najdorf , Julio Bolbochán , Héctor Rossetto , Carlos Guimard , Raúl Sanguineti , Herman Pilnik and Erich Eliskases . When he participated in 13 Argentine championships, he only came second twice, in 1959 and 1962. In 1963 he was awarded the title of International Master by the World Chess Federation FIDE . As a co-winner of the Rio Hondo zone tournament in 1966, he was South American champion together with Henrique Mecking , Óscar Panno and Julio Bolbochán . Foguelman was in fourth place after a fine evaluation; Mecking was qualified for the Sousse 1967 interzonal tournament .

After the end of his playing career, Foguelman devoted himself to the composition of endgame studies from the 1980s , almost a hundred have been published. The artistic aspect was in the foreground for him, so he also saw mistakes in games as valuable if they led to beauty .

Works

Foguelman wrote three chess books.

  • Ajedrez de lujo . Buenos Aires, 1978
  • Damas Cazadas . Buenos Aires, 1988
  • Selección de sus finales artísticos (period 1984-2007) . 2007

Individual references and sources

  1. ↑ a b c Profile at chessgames.com (English), accessed on April 30, 2014
  2. ↑ a b c José A. Copié: Obituary: Alberto Foguelman (30x1923 - 9xii2013) . In: eg 196, April 2014, pp. 118–121.
  3. ↑ Profile at Olimpbase , accessed April 30, 2014
  4. ↑ Tournament table at Brasilbase , accessed on April 30, 2014
  5. ↑ Harold van der Heijden : hhdbiv . Self-published database, October 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Foguelman, Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION argentinian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires , Argentina
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 2013
Place of death Buenos Aires , Argentina