Jānis Klovāns
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| Jānis Klovāns, Bad Liebenzell 1996 |
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 Latvia
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| Born | April 9, 1935 Ruba , Latvia |
| Died | October 5, 2010 Riga |
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International Master (1976) Grand Master (1998) |
| Best Elo rating | 2530 (July 1996) |
Jānis Klovāns (born April 9, 1935 in Ruba , Saldus district , † October 5, 2010 in Riga ) was a Latvian chess grandmaster .
Life
Jānis Klovāns learned to play chess at the age of 14. He later completed a degree in economics and spent many years in the Soviet Army , whose chess championship he won several times. As a member of the military, he was unable to play any tournaments outside of the Warsaw Pact states .
He won the Latvian SSR championship a total of nine times (1954, 1962, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1979 and 1986). He also took part in several Soviet championships.
For Latvia he played at two chess Olympiads , namely in 1992 as the second reserve player in Manila (+0 = 2 −0) and in 2000 on the 3rd board in Istanbul (+5 = 4 −4).
However, he celebrated his greatest successes at the Senior World Chess Championships . In 1997, 1999 and 2001 he was the senior chess world champion.
He became international champion in 1976. After winning the senior chess championship in 1997 in Bad Liebenzell , he received the GM title in 1998 . In addition, he got the GM title in correspondence chess in 2001 .
Klovans talked about his life as a chess player in an interview with Harald Grafenhofer during the Senior World Cup in 1998 in Grieskirchen . The following year he won in Gladenbach the World Chess Championship of seniors 1999 .
He was married to the six-time Latvian women champion Astra Klovāne and had two daughters.
In the Dutch master class he played from 2004 to 2006 and in the 2009/10 season for HMC Calder , in the Czech extra league he played from 2000 to 2002 for ŠK DP Holdia Prague , with which he became champion in 2001 , and in the 2004 season / 05 for the ŠK Sokol Kolín .
Web links
- Replayable chess games by Jānis Klovāns on chessgames.com (English)
- Janis Klovans dies at 75 , Chessvibes.com, October 7, 2010 (English)
- Biography at sahistiem.lv ( Memento from July 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Latvian)
- Arturs Neikšāns : In memory of Janis Klovans (Chessbase news, May 12, 2011, accessed September 28, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jānis Klovāns' results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ The senior chess champions and reports on this
- ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 93.
- ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 84.
- ↑ Interview by Harald Grafenhofer with Janis Klovans 1998 in Grieskirchen / Austria
- ↑ Jānis Klovāns' results in the Czech Extraliga on olimpbase.org (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Klovāns, Jānis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klovans, Janis (FIDE) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Latvian chess player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ruba , Saldus District, Latvia |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 5, 2010 |
| Place of death | Riga |