List of Latvian chess players

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Michail Tal was the only Latvian world champion to date in 1960 .

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

General

In close chess , ten grandmasters, twelve international masters (including the only woman Olita Rause ), six women's grandmasters and four international women's champions are eligible to play for the Latvian Chess Federation. Six grandmasters, four international masters, one women's grandmaster and two international women's champions are no longer eligible to play for the Latvian Chess Federation, four grandmasters, one honorary grandmaster and one international master have already passed away. Michail Tal was world champion from 1960 to 1961 .

In correspondence chess, eight Latvian players have earned the title of Grand Master (among them the only woman Olita Rause), eleven that of an Honored International Master, thirteen that of an International Master and two that of a Women's Grand Master. Of these, four Grand Masters and three International Masters have already passed away. Jānis Vitomskis won the 28th European Correspondence Chess Championship.

The Latvian Individual Championships were played 83 times, the Latvian Women's Championship 74 times. The record champion is Jānis Klovāns , who won the LSSR championship nine times; Vladimir Petrovs won the championship of independent Latvia the most with four titles. Milda Lauberte won the women's competition most often with 13 titles; the women's championship of independent Latvia was won by Laura Rogule with ten titles the most.

Another six Latvian players had a historic rating of over 2,499 before June 1971.

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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 player's highest FIDE title (GM = Grand Master, HGM = Honorary Grand Master, IM = International Master, WGM = Women's Grand Master, WIM = International Women's Master, WFM = FIDE Women's Master)
  • 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 Latvian championships won during the country's independence.
  • Title (LSSR) : The number indicates the number of Latvian individual championships won from 1941 to 1990.
  • Title (women) : indicates the number of Latvian individual championships won by women.
  • Title (Women, LSSR) : The number indicates the number of Latvian individual championships won by women from 1941 to 1990.
  • Historical Elo : For players who have neither FIDE nor ICCF titles and have never won a Latvian championship, 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 the Latvian independence in 1918 and 1991 or the annexation of Latvia in World War II are not listed.

The list is current as of April 23, 2018.

Surname Life dates FIDE year ICCF year title Title (LSSR) Title (women) Title (Women, LSSR) historical Elo other associations
Katrīna America 1991 WIM 2009 0 0 1 0
Guntar's Antoms 1960 IN THE 2001 1 0 0 0
Fricis Apšenieks 1894-1941 2 0 0 0
Maris Auzinš IN THE 2005 0 0 0 0
Maigonis Avotinš 1962 GM 2015 0 0 0 0
Vladimir Bagirov 1936-2000 GM 1978 0 0 0 0
Olegs Batakovs 1941 SIM 2007 0 0 0 0
Teodors Bergs 1902-1966 0 0 0 0 2510
Ilze Bērziņa 1984 WGM 2009 0 0 3 0
Roland's Bērziņš 1975 IN THE 1993 0 0 0 0
Gunars bondars IN THE 2015 0 0 0 0
Vadims Daškevičs 1986 IN THE 2010 0 0 0 0 Norway (since 2017)
Zigurds Dauga SIM 0 0 0 0
Olga Dolgowa 1987 WIM 2007 0 0 0 0 Russia (until 2014)
Leonīds Dreibergs 1908-1969 0 0 0 0 2500 United States (from 1949)
Raivo Dzenis SIM 2007 0 0 0 0
Lūcijs Endzelīns 1909-1981 GM 1959 0 0 0 0 Australia (after 1939)
Ingūna Erneste 1966 WGM 1992 0 0 1 1
Movsas Feigins 1908-1950 1 0 0 0 Argentina (after 1939)
Elīza Fogele 0 0 1 0
Daniel Fridman 1976 GM 2001 1 0 0 0 Germany (since 2007)
Rafael Fridman 1979 IN THE 2008 0 0 0 0 Germany (since 2007)
Artis Gaujens GM 2004 0 0 0 0
Aivars Gipslis 1937-2000 GM 1967 GM 1995 0 8th 0 0
Ilmar Graudinš 1968 IN THE 2009 0 0 0 0
Anna Hahn 1976 WIM 1995 0 0 1 0 United States (since 1994)
Georg Hodakowsky * 1917; † after 1986 0 0 0 0 2506 Federal Republic of Germany (after 1940)
Vladimir Istlajevs 1959 SIM 2015 0 0 0 0
Toms Kantans 1994 GM 2017 0 0 0 0
Nikolajs Katišonoks 1957 IN THE 1994 0 0 0 0
Aivars Kažoks 1953 SIM 2001 0 0 0 0
Edvīns Ķeņģis 1959 GM 1991 3 5 0 0
Jānis Kļaviņš 1933-2008 0 1 0 0 2557
Sergejs Klimakovs 1985 IN THE 2015 0 0 0 0
Jānis Klovāns 1935-2010 GM 1998 GM 2001 0 9 0 0
Alexander Koblenz 1916-1993 0 4th 0 0 2570
Ihor Kovalenko 1988 GM 2011 2 0 0 0 Ukraine (until 2013)
Māris Krakops 1978 GM 1998 1 0 0 0
Oļegs Krivonosovs 1961 IN THE 1993 0 0 0 0
Valery Krivonosovs SIM 2001 0 0 0 0
Linda Krūmiņa 1984 WFM 2017 0 0 1 0
Zigurd's Lanka 1960 GM 1992 IN THE 1989 2 0 0 0
Milda Lauberte 1918-2009 0 0 1 12
Agnese Līckrastiņa 1972 WIM 2001 0 0 0 0
Juris Markauss 1943 IN THE 1989 0 0 0 0
Hermanis Matisons 1894-1932 1 0 0 0
Viesturs Meijers 1967 GM 2004 1 0 0 0
Ņikita Meškovs 1994 IN THE 2014 0 0 0 0
Normunds Miezis 1971 GM 1997 2 0 0 0
Jurijs Mihailovs 1989 IN THE 2009 0 0 0 0
Arkadij Naiditsch 1985 GM 2001 0 0 0 0 Germany (1998–2015), Azerbaijan (since 2015)
Arturs Neikšāns 1983 GM 2012 3 0 0 0
Viktorija Ni 1991 WIM 2010 0 0 0 0 United States (since 2011)
Karlis Ozols 1912-2001 IN THE 1972 0 0 0 0 Australia (from 1949)
Vladimir Permiyakov 1957 IN THE 1996 0 0 0 0 Russia (since 2001)
Juzefs Petkēvičs 1940 GM 2002 0 2 0 0
Vladimir Petrovs 1907-1943 4th 0 0 0
Ingrīda Priedīte 1954 WFM 2014 LGM 1997 0 0 0 2
Visvaldis Pulkis * 1932; † after 2001 IN THE 1990 0 0 0 0
Olita Rause 1962 IN THE 1995 GM 1998 0 0 0 0
Igor Rausis 1961 GM 1992 IN THE 1997 1 0 0 0 Bangladesh (2003–2007), Czech Republic (since 2007)
Dana Reizniece-Ozola 1981 WGM 2001 0 0 4th 0
Uldis Rinkis SIM 2002 0 0 0 0
Laura Rogule 1988 WGM 2005 0 0 10 0
Andris Roze 1951 SIM 2014 0 0 0 0
Ilze Rubene 1958-2002 WIM 1990 0 0 1 1 Sweden (from 2000)
Anda Šafranska 1960 WGM 1999 0 0 5 3 France (since 2010)
Juris Saksis 1952 SIM 2001 0 0 0 0
Ģedimins Salmiņš 1933-2012 IN THE 1997 0 0 0 0
Vitālijs Samoļins 1990 IN THE 2009 2 0 0 0
Leonid Sandler 1962 IN THE 2000 0 0 0 0 Australia (since 1993)
Alexei Shirov 1972 GM 1990 0 0 0 0 Spain (1995-2011, since 2018)
Alexander Shabalov 1967 GM 1991 0 0 0 0 United States (since 1994)
Anatolijs Šmits 1941-1998 0 2 0 0 2426 Russia (from 1992)
Andrejs Sokolovs 1972 IN THE 1992 0 0 0 0
Ilmārs Starostīts 1979 GM 2010 1 0 0 0
Uldis Strautiņš 1937 SIM 2000 0 0 0 0
Vilnis Strautiņš 1939 GM 2009 0 0 0 0
Andrejs Strebkovs 1981 IN THE 2009 0 0 0 0
Vladimir Svešņikovs 1986 IN THE 2011 1 0 0 0
Yevgeny Svezhnikov 1950 GM 1977 3 0 0 0 Russia (1992–2002, since 2015)
Mikhail Tal 1936-1992 GM 1957 0 2 0 0
Jānis Valeinis 1978 SIM 2010 0 0 0 0
Tamara Vilerte 1954 WGM 2008 0 0 0 1
Alvis Vītoliņš 1946-1997 IN THE 1980 0 7th 0 0
Edvins Vītoliņš IN THE 1984 0 0 0 0
Jānis Vitomskis 1936-2009 GM 2001 0 0 0 0
Boļeslavs Voļaks IN THE 2001 0 0 0 0
Tatiana Voronova 1955 WIM 1993 0 0 0 4th
Elmar's Zemgalis 1923-2014 HGM 2003 0 0 0 0 United States (from 1951)
Valērijs Žuravļovs 1938 IN THE 1993 2 1 0 0

See also

Web links

Commons : Latvian Chess Players  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lūcijs Endzelīns won the Australian individual championship once.
  2. ↑ Daniel Fridman also won the German individual championship three times.
  3. ↑ Anna Hahn also won the United States Women's Championship once.
  4. ↑ Arkadij Naiditsch won the German individual championship once.
  5. ↑ Karlis Ozols won the Australian individual championship once.
  6. ↑ Olita Rause has also had the WGM title since 1993.
  7. ↑ Olita Rause has also had the LGM title since 1994.
  8. ↑ Alexei Schirow won the Spanish individual championship once.
  9. ↑ Alexander Shabalov won the United States championship three times.
  10. ↑ Mikhail Tal won the Soviet individual championship six times.