Lembit Oll

Lembit Oll (born April 23, 1966 in Kohtla-Järve , † May 17, 1999 in Tallinn ) was an Estonian chess player .

Life

Lembit Oll went through the Soviet chess school and had numerous successes as a teenager. In 1982 he became champion of Estonia, in 1984 youth champion of the USSR and represented the Soviet Union at various European and world youth championships. His enormous talent unfolded completely after the collapse of the Soviet empire: in 1989 he won Espoo , Tallinn (zone tournament) and Helsinki . 1990 in Terrassa , 1991 in Sydney and Helsinki, 1992 in Seville , 1993 in Vilnius , The Hague and Antwerp . In 1994 he won the New York Open together with his compatriot Jaan Ehlvest . In 1995 he won in Helsinki and the zone tournament in Riga , 1996 in Saint Petersburg , 1997 in Køge , Hoogeveen (divided) and Szeged (divided). Oll was awarded the title of International Master by FIDE in 1983 and became a Grand Master in 1990 .

Oll was married and the father of two sons. After divorcing his wife, he fell into depression and took 33 years by a fall from his Tallinn apartment on the 4th floor of the living . Oll was Estonia's best player at the time, had an Elo rating of 2630 and was 42nd in the world rankings. He played his last tournament in 1999 in Nova Gorica , where he finished second. He was buried in Tallinn, not far from the grave of Paul Keres . His highest Elo rating was 2650 in July 1998.

Game example

Kupreitschik – Oll

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

End position after 46 ... Be7

In the following game in the 1996 St. Petersburg tournament , Oll defeated Viktor Kuprejchyk with the black stones .

Kupreitschik – Oll 0: 1

St. Petersburg, 1996

Sicilian Defense ( Najdorf Variation ), B90

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 d6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 a6 6. h3 g6 7. Bc4 Bg7 8. 0–0 9. Re1 Nc6 10. Bb3 Bd7 11. Bg5 Nxd4 12. Qxd4 h6 13 Bd2 Bc6 14. Qd3 Nd7 15. Be3 Nc5 16. Bxc5 dxc5 17. Qg3 e6 18. Bc4 Qg5 19. Qxg5 hxg5 20. a4 Rfd8 21. e5 Rd4 22. b3 g4 23. h4 Rd2 24. Bd3 g3 25. Ne4 Bxe4 26. Rxe4 gxf2 + 27. Kf1 Rd8 28. Rc1 Rd4 29. Rxd4 cxd4 30. Be2 Bxe5 31. Kxf2 Bf4 32. Rd1 Be3 + 33. Kf3 Rxc2 34. g4 Kg7 35. g5 Rb2 36. Bc4 Kf8 37.Rh1 Ke7 38 Ke4 Rf2 39. h5 gxh5 40. Rxh5 Rf4 + 41. Kd3 Rf5 42. Ke4 Bxg5 43. Rh8 Rf4 + 44. Kd3 Kd7 45. Rb8 Kc7 46. Rf8 Be7 0: 1

National team

With Estonia Oll took part in the Chess Olympiads in 1992 , 1994 , 1996 and 1998 and the 1997 European Team Championship.

societies

In the Dutch Meester class or Hoofd class , Oll played for Volmac Rotterdam , with whom he also took part in the European Club Cup in 1993 . At the European Club Cup, he also represented Honvéd Budapest in 1992 and the Polonia Warsaw team in 1997 and 1998 , with whom he came second in both competitions.

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Lembit Oll on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lembit Oll elas oma maailmas, nägi kõike läbi prismade (Estonian, viewed April 4, 2011)
2. ↑ Zeitschrift Schach 1999/6, p. 73: Grandmaster Lembit Oll committed suicide on May 17, 1999 ...
3. ↑ Report on Oll's death on The Week in Chess 237 (English).
4. ↑ Lembit Oll's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Lembit Olls results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Lembit Olls results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)