Manuel Aaron

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Manuel Aaron 1962.jpg
Manuel Aaron at the Hoogovensturnier 1962
Association IndiaIndia India
Born December 30, 1935
Toungoo , British Burma
title International champion (1961)
Current  Elo rating 2315 (October 2019)
Best Elo rating 2415 (January 1981)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Manuel Aaron (born December 30, 1935 in Toungoo , British Burma ) is an Indian chess player . He became India's first international champion in 1961 and was one of India's leading players from the 1960s to the 1980s . He made the internationally widespread chess popular in India, while until then mainly traditional, regional varieties were played.

Life

Manuel Aaron was born to Indian parents in Toungoo in what was then the colony of Burma. He grew up in Tamil Nadu , where he went through school and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Allahabad University .

Between 1959 and 1981 he was Indian champion nine times, where he managed to achieve this title five times in a row between 1969 and 1975. He won the championships of Tamil Nadu, which developed into the Indian center of chess during this time, a total of eleven times.

Manuel Aaron won the Zone 9 tournament (Asia and Oceania) in 1961 and qualified for the Stockholm 1962 interzonal tournament . In the preliminary round of West and Central Asia , apart from Aaron, there was only one other applicant, the Mongolian Suren Momo, who he defeated 3-1 in a match over four games. After this victory, Aaron was awarded the title of International Master in the same year . Manuel Aaron won 3-0 against the Australian Cecil Purdy , who won the preliminary round in East Asia and Oceania . In 1961 he won the Arjuna Award , an Indian prize given to exceptional athletes. He was the first chess player to receive this award. In 1962 he took part in the interzonal tournament in Stockholm. There he ended up in last place, but defeated the grandmasters Lajos Portisch and Wolfgang Uhlmann . In the following years he took part in other tournaments and achieved fourth place in the 1984 Commonwealth Championship . Manuel Aaron took part with the Indian national team in the Chess Olympiads in 1960 , 1962 and 1964 and in the Asian team championships in 1977 and 1981.

In the early 1980s, Manuel Aaron was the editor of Chess in India , a quarterly magazine.

Web links

Commons : Manuel Aaron  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://pib.nic.in/feature/feyr2003/fmay2003/f130520031.html
  2. ↑ List of Indian Masters at ajedrezdeataque.com (Spanish)
  3. ↑ Profile of Manuel Aaron at iloveindia.com (English)
  4. ↑ Results of the zone tournaments of the World Cup cycle 1960 to 1963 at Mark Weeks (English)
  5. ↑ http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=18943
  6. ↑ Manuel Aaron's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Manuel Aarons results at Asian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  8. ^ German chess newspaper August 1981, page 269
personal data
SURNAME Aaron, Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Toungoo , British Burma