List of Estonian chess players

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An Estonian 2 euro commemorative coin was dedicated to Paul Keres on the occasion of his 100th birthday on January 7, 2016 .

The list of Estonian chess players contains chess players who are or were eligible to play for the Estonian Chess Federation and who meet at least one of the following conditions:

General

In close chess, 6 grandmasters, 13 international masters, one female grandmaster and 5 international female champions are eligible to play for the Estonian Chess Federation. A grandmaster and a grandmaster of women are no longer eligible to play for the Estonian Chess Federation, two grandmasters, one honorary grandmaster, two international masters, one grandmaster of women and two international champions of women have already passed away.

In correspondence chess, five Estonian players have earned the title of Grand Master, eight that of Merited International Master, eleven that of International Master (including Svetlana Zainetdinova as the only woman ) and two that of Women's Grand Master. Of these, two Merited International Masters and six International Masters have already passed away. Tõnu Õim won both the 9th and 14th World Correspondence Chess Championships.

The Estonian individual championships were played 90 times (including 40 times during the country's independence), the Estonian women's championship 74 times (including 30 times since the country became independent). The record champion is Kaido Külaots with 9 titles, while Estonia was part of the Soviet Union Iivo Nei was the most successful with 8 titles. Salme Rootare won the women's competition most often with 15 titles (all while belonging to the Soviet Union, Monika Tsõganova was the most successful with 9 titles since independence ).

Another five Estonian players had a historic Elo rating of over 2,499 before June 1971.

list

The following table contains this information:

  • Name : gives the name of the player.
  • Life data : states the year of birth and, if applicable, the year of death of the player.
  • FIDE : Names the highest FIDE title of the player (GM = Grand Master, HGM = Honorary Grand Master, IM = International Master, WGM = Women's Grand Master, FM = FIDE Master , WIM = International Women's Master, WFM = FIDE Master the women)
  • Year : Name the year the title was awarded
  • ICCF : Names the highest ICCF title of the player (GM = Grand Master, SIM = Honored International Master, IM = International Master, LGM = Grand Master of Women).
  • Year : Name the year the title was awarded.
  • Title : Indicates the number of individual Estonian championships won during the country's independence.
  • Title (ESSR) : The number indicates the number of Estonian individual championships won from 1941 to 1990.
  • Title (women) : Indicates the number of Estonian women's individual championships won since the country became independent.
  • Title (Women, ESSR) : Indicates the number of Estonian individual championships won by women up to 1990.
  • Historical Elo : For players who have neither FIDE nor ICCF titles and have never won an Estonian championship during the country's independence, the highest historical Elo number achieved before July 1971 , provided it is at least 2500.
  • 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 of association as a result of Estonian independence in 1918 and 1991 or the annexation of Estonia in World War II are not listed.

The list is current as of August 23, 2020.

Surname Life dates FIDE year ICCF year title Title (ESSR) Title (women) Title (women, ESSR) historical Elo other associations
Viktoria Baskite 1985 WIM 2004 0 0 1 0
Sofia Blokhin 2006 0 0 1 0
Jaan Ehlvest 1962 GM 1987 0 1 0 0 United States (since 2006)
Pure Etruc 1938-2012 0 3 0 0 2659
Tatiana Fomina 1954 WGM 2014 0 0 6th 4th
Gunnar Friedemann 1909-1943 1 0 0 0
Valeria Gansvind 1965 WFM 2001 0 0 2 0 Soviet Union (until 1991), Russia (1992–2006)
Valentina Golubenko 1990 WGM 2007 0 0 0 0 Croatia (since 2007)
Aarne Hermlin 1940-2007 FM 1992 IN THE 1986 0 1 0 0
Valter Heuer 1928-2006 0 1 0 0 2540
Meelis Kanep 1983 GM 2006 3 0 0 0
Alvar Kangur 1976 GM 2007 0 0 0 0
Hillar Kärner 1935-2017 IN THE 1980 0 7th 0 0
Elmar Kask 1921-2001 IN THE 1994 0 0 0 0
Paul Keres 1916-1975 GM 1950 1 4th 0 0
Kalle Kiik 1963 IN THE 1993 0 1 0 0
Nikolai Kristoffel 1932 SIM 2000 0 0 0 0
Jüri Krupenski 1982 IN THE 2016 0 0 0 0
Raul Kukk 1964 GM 2006 0 0 0 0
Kaido Külaots 1976 GM 2001 9 0 0 0
Igor Kullamaa 1924-2006 IN THE 1996 0 0 0 0
Endel Kuuskma 1923-1993 IN THE 1975 0 0 0 0
Einar Laane 1934-2014 SIM 2011 0 0 0 0
Ottomar Ladva 1997 GM 2016 4th 0 0 0
Tuulikki Laesson 1969 WIM 1992 0 0 2 0
Mark Lapidus 1995 1 0 0 0
Ülar Lauk 1968 IN THE 2007 IN THE 2009 0 0 0 0
Leho Laurine 1904-1998 1 0 0 0
Ervin Liebert 1939 SIM 2007 0 0 0 0
Riho Liiva 1975 IN THE 1996 0 0 0 0
Vallo Maidla 1970 IN THE 2003 0 0 0 0
Harald Merilo 1924-2015 IN THE 1984 0 0 0 0
Jaan Merilo SIM 2000 0 0 0 0
Vladas Mikėnas 1910-1992 HGM 1987 IN THE 1970 1 0 0 0 Lithuania (1931–1940, from 1991), Soviet Union (1940–1991)
May Narva 1999 WIM 2015 0 0 4th 0
Regina Narva 1970 WFM 2007 0 0 1 0
Iivo Nei 1931 IN THE 1964 0 8th 0 0
Tõnu Õim 1941 GM 1981 0 0 0 0
Margareth Olde 2000 WFM 2016 0 0 2 0
Lembit Oll 1966-1999 GM 1990 0 1 0 0
Hugo Päären 1946 SIM 2002 0 0 0 0
Leili Pärnpuu 1950 WIM 1990 0 0 0 5
Kalju Pitksar 1931-1995 IN THE 1995 0 1 0 0
Jüri Randviir 1927-1996 0 4th 0 0 2527
Maaja Ranniku 1941-2004 WIM 1964 0 0 1 9
Ilmar Raud 1913-1941 2 0 0 0
Raul Renter 1920-1992 0 2 0 0 2539
Paul Rinne 1889-1946 1 0 0 0
Ivar Rooks 1933-2009 SIM 2000 0 0 0 0
Salme Rootare 1913-1987 WIM 1957 0 0 0 15th
Merike Rõtova 1936 LGM 1996 0 0 0 0
Mihhail Rõtšagov 1967 GM 1997 1 0 0 0
Paul Felix Schmidt 1916-1984 IN THE 1950 2 0 0 0 Germany (1939–1950), United States (from 1950)
Jüri Schuster 1946 SIM 2003 0 0 0 0
Tarvo Seeman 1969 IN THE 1998 2 0 0 0
Yuri Seljodkin 1935 IN THE 1996 0 0 0 0
Olav Sepp 1969 IN THE 1994 5 1 0 0
Roman Sergeyev 1975 1 0 0 0
Andrei Shishkov 1978 IN THE 2018 0 0 0 0
Jüri Siigur 1944 GM 2011 0 0 0 0
Ilya Siroš 1998 FM 2015 1 0 0 0
Igor Švõrjov 1955 GM 2005 0 0 0 0
Tőnu Talpak SIM 2010 0 0 0 0
Tőnu Tiits 1937 GM 2009 0 0 0 0
Ado Truupõld 1932 IN THE 2000 0 0 0 0
Monika Tsõganova 1969 WIM 1991 0 0 9 0
Johannes Türn 1899-1993 1 2 0 0
Tuuli Vahtra 1989 WFM 2009 0 0 1 0
Aleksander Veingold 1953 IN THE 1983 0 0 0 0
Jüri Vetemaa 1956-2003 FM 1992 0 0 0 0 Belgium (1997-2000)
Aleksandr Volodin 1990 GM 2011 1 0 0 0
Larissa Volpert 1926-2017 WGM 1977 0 0 0 3
Andres Vooremaa 1944 0 2 0 0 2516
Pavel Vorobjov 1981 1 0 0 0
Svetlana Zainetdinova 1962 WFM 2006 IN THE 2009 0 0 0 1
Vladimir Zavoronkov 1976 IN THE 2004 0 0 0 0
Yuri Zitin 1980 IN THE 1999 0 0 0 0
Sergei Zyukin 1972 IN THE 2001 1 0 0 0

See also

Web links

Commons : Estonian chess players  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Valentina Golubenko won the Croatian women's championship once.
  2. ↑ Paul Keres also won the Soviet individual championship three times.
  3. ↑ Vladas Mikėnas also won the Lithuanian championship five times during the country's independence.
  4. ↑ Paul Felix Schmidt also won the German individual championship once.
  5. ↑ Jüri Vetemaa won the Belgian individual championship once.
  6. ↑ Svetlana Zainetdinova has also held the LGM title since 2009.