List of International Masters (awarded 1961)
The list of International Masters of 1961 lists all chess players who received the title of International Masters in 1961 from the World Chess Federation FIDE .
In November 2018, five of the 18 players honored at the time are still alive. Seven of the 18 players later achieved the title of grandmaster , another three were later awarded the title of honorary grandmaster .
Legend
The table contains the following information:
- Name : gives the name of the player.
- Country : Name the country for which the player was eligible to play in 1961.
- Life data : states the year of birth and, if applicable, the year of death of the player.
- GM : Indicates the year of award for players who were later promoted to grandmasters.
- HGM : Indicates the year of the award for players who were later made Honorary Grand Masters.
- Other associations : For players who were sooner or later eligible to play for at least one other association, this indicates these associations with the periods of eligibility to play (if known). Changes to a successor state are only taken into account if the player was still active in chess at the time.
list
Surname | country | Life dates | GM | HGM | other associations |
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Manuel Aaron | India | 1935 | |||
Dragoljub Ćirić | Yugoslavia | 1935-2014 | 1965 | Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006), Serbia (from 2006) | |
Dolfi Drimer | Romania | 1934-2014 | |||
Theodor Ghițescu | Romania | 1934-2008 | 1986 | ||
Ervin Haág | Hungary | 1933-2018 | |||
Svein Johannessen | Norway | 1937-2007 | |||
Dieter Keller | Switzerland | 1936 | |||
Heinz Lehmann | Federal Republic of Germany | 1921-1995 | 1992 | ||
Milan Matulović | Yugoslavia | 1935-2013 | 1965 | Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006), Serbia (from 2006) | |
Bruno Parma | Yugoslavia | 1941 | 1963 | ||
Jonathan Penrose | England | 1933 | 1993 | ||
Wolfgang Pietzsch | German Democratic Republic | 1930-1996 | 1966 | ||
Lev Polugayevsky | Soviet Union | 1934-1995 | 1962 | Russia (from 1992) | |
Samuel Schweber | Argentina | 1936-2017 | |||
Leonid Stein | Soviet Union | 1934-1973 | 1962 | ||
Alexei Suetin | Soviet Union | 1926-2001 | 1965 | Russia (from 1992) | |
Maximilian Ujtelky | Czechoslovakia | 1915-1979 | |||
Raymond Weinstein | United States | 1941 |
See also
literature
- Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924–2002 , Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002