Jorge Pelican

Jorge Pelikan (born April 23, 1906 as Jiří Pelikán , † June 1984 ) was an Argentine chess master of Czech descent.

Life

Pelikan played with Czechoslovakia at the Chess Olympiads in Warsaw in 1935 , in Stockholm in 1937 and in Buenos Aires in 1939 , and in 1935 he achieved the second-best individual result of the reserve players. He also took part in the unofficial Chess Olympiad in Munich in 1936 . In the 1930s he took part in numerous tournaments in Europe, u. a. he managed a draw against the world champion Alexander Alekhine in Poděbrady in 1936. The beginning of the Second World War during the Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires in 1939 meant that Pelikan no longer returned to Europe, but instead took on the Argentine citizenship. He was based in the city of Chacabuco near Buenos Aires, took part regularly in Argentine championships and was soon one of the leading Argentine chess masters. However, his very risk-taking, double-edged style prevented him from ever getting into higher prize ranks at national championships. He won the first correspondence chess championship in Argentina. In 1965 FIDE awarded him the title of International Master .

Pelikan and other Argentine masters examined a line in the Sicilian Defense in the 1950s : 1. e2 – e4 c7 – c5 2. Ng1 – f3 Nb8 – c6 3. d2 – d4 c5xd4 4. Nf3xd4 Ng8 – f6 5. Nb1 – c3 e7 – e5 6. Nd4 – b5 d7 – d6 . This variant was initially called the Pelikan variant (also called the Pilnik system , after Herman Pilnik , who used it at world-class level in the 1950s), but later became internationally popular as the Svezhnikov variant through the analytical work of Soviet players in the 1970s .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jorge Pelikan's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ Jorge Pelikan's results at unofficial chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)