Cenek Kottnauer
Cenek Kottnauer, Beverwijk 1962 |
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Czechoslovakia (until 1953) England (from 1953)
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Born | February 24, 1910 Prague , Austria-Hungary |
Died | London February 14, 1996 |
title | International champion (1950) |
Best Elo rating | 2607 (September 1952) ( historical rating ) |
Cenek Kottnauer , English spelling of the Czech first name Čeněk , (born February 24, 1910 in Prague , † February 14, 1996 in London ) was a Czech - British chess player .
Kottnauer played at tournaments in Prague in 1942 and 1943 against the best chess masters of the time. Its first major international tournaments were Groningen in 1946 and the Chigorin Memorial Tournament in Moscow in 1947 . In 1950 he received the title of International Master from the World Chess Federation FIDE . In 1951 he was also appointed FIDE International Referee.
With Czechoslovakia he took part in the 1952 Chess Olympiad in Helsinki and achieved an excellent result with 12.5 out of 15 (83.33%), thus winning the gold medal for the best performance on the fourth board. In 1953 he won an international tournament in Lucerne .
In 1953 he emigrated to England and took British citizenship. For England he then went to the Chess Olympiads in Tel Aviv in 1964 (11.5 out of 18 on board 1) and 1968 in Lugano (5.5 out of 12 on board 2). He later taught many talented young chess players in London, including the later grandmasters Nigel Short , Dharshan Kumaran , Julian Hodgson and Stuart Conquest .
Kottnauer was married and had one son.
Web links
- Tim Harding: Remembering Cenek Kottnauer ( Memento from March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- William Hartston : Obituary: Cenek Kottnauer Article in The Independent, March 16, 1996, accessed April 28, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cenek Kottnauer's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
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SURNAME | Kottnauer, Cenek |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kottnauer, Čeněk (Czech) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech-British chess player |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1910 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1996 |
Place of death | London |