Eero Böök

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Eero Böök, January 1934

Eero Einar Böök (born February 9, 1910 in Helsinki ; † January 7, 1990 ) was a Finnish chess master .

Böök was considered the leading master player in Finland for three decades (from the 1930s to the 1960s) until the appearance of Heikki Westerinen . He won the Finnish championship six times (1931/32, 1934/35, 1935/36, 1936/37, 1946/47, and 1963/64) and took for six times ( 1935 , 1937 , 1950 , 1952 , 1958 and 1960 ) Finland participated in the Chess Olympiad , he was also part of the Finnish team at the 1936 unofficial Chess Olympiad .

His international career began with a tournament victory in Helsinki in 1935 before Paul Keres . At the 1937 Kemeri tournament he was tied for eleventh, but defeated tournament winner Samuel Reshevsky . In Margate 1938 he shared fourth and fifth place ( Alexander Alekhine won ahead of Rudolf Spielmann ), in 1939 he was fifth in Kemeri, and in 1946 in Helsinki 4-6. He celebrated his biggest success at the tournament for the Scandinavian Championship 1947 in Helsinki, at the same time a zone tournament of FIDE was: He won together with Swedish Gösta Stoltz (the subsequent tie-break ended 4-4) and qualified for the Interzonal Saltsjöbaden 1948 , at he shared places 11-13 (with Svetozar Gligorić and Vasja Pirc ). In 1959 in Krakow he was shared third, in 1960/61 in Stockholm fourth.

Böök was an engineer by profession and never played chess professionally. He is the author of several chess books. In 1950 FIDE awarded him the title of International Master , and in 1984 it awarded him the title of Honorary Grand Master .

Böök's last Elo rating was 2305, in July 1971 and July 1972 it had its highest rating of 2340. Before the Elo rating was introduced, Böök had its highest historical rating of 2642 in August 1948 .

literature

  • Eero E. Böök: Mestarin mietteitä . Shakkitarvike, Järvenpää 1985. ISBN 951-95916-0-5 . (contains 75 commented games by Böök from the period 1928–1979)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eero Böök's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Eero Bööks results at unofficial chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Eero Bööks Elo development on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Eero Bööks historical Elo numbers on chessmetrics.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Böök, Eero
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böök, Eero Einar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish chess player
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1990