André Muffang

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André Muffang (born July 25, 1897 in Saint-Brieuc , † March 1, 1989, apparently in Paris ) was a French chess master.

After training as an engineer and graduating from the École polytechnique , Muffang spent his professional life in the higher state administration. He lived in Valenciennes and later in Paris. Muffang was married and had four children.

His private passion was chess. Muffang celebrated the greatest success of his chess career in 1931 when he managed to win the French national championship in Lille . Muffang took part in the Chess Olympiads in 1927 , 1928 , 1935 and 1956 , where he received the silver medal for the second best individual result of all participants in The Hague in 1928 . In total, he played 63 games at the Chess Olympiads and scored 35 points.

In 1922 he won the Paris tournament. A year later he finished second at the very busy tournament in Margate (together with Alexander Alekhine and Efim Bogoljubow , ahead of Richard Réti ) and behind Ernst Grünfeld . In the same year he was defeated by the eventual world champion Alekhine in a competition in Paris with 0-2 and played a short match in a draw 1-1 against Eugène Znosko-Borovsky . In the same year he was second in the French championship in Paris, as well as in Strasbourg in 1924 . In 1947 he beat the Czechoslovakian champion Karel Opočenský with 1½-½ during the France-ČSR competition , in 1954 he was defeated by Yuri Averbach with the same result in the competition between France and the Soviet Union. In 1955 he beat Octavio Troianescu 2-0 in the international match against Romania .

The FIDE awarded Muffang 1951 the title International Master . For the World Chess Federation he was active in several voluntary functions in the following years.

In the early 1970s, Muffang retired from active chess. He left behind an important chess book collection . Muffang was a member of the Paris club Caïssa , with which he won the French team cup in 1947.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the list of Championnats de France
  2. ↑ André Muffang's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Results from the years 1923-1955 according to ChessBase Megabase 2007 and Roland Lecomte / Jacques Le Monnier: Hommage à un grand disparu: André Muffang , in: Europe-Echecs, July-August 1989
  4. ↑ See André Muffang, grand champion, vente historique , July 19, 2006
  5. ↑ Report on the French team cup 1947 on heritageechecsfra.free.fr (French)
personal data
SURNAME Muffang, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French chess player
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Brieuc
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1989
Place of death Paris