Osmo Kaila (chess player)

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Osmo Ilmari Kaila (born May 11, 1916 in Helsinki ; † June 3, 1991 ibid) was a Finnish crossword puzzle inventor , chess player , chess composer and international judge for chess composition .

Life

Osmo Kaila designed crossword puzzles full-time. In the mid-1940s, the first Finnish crossword puzzles were published, for which Osmo Kaila was responsible. His crossword puzzles appeared in newspapers such as Helsingin Sanomat , Finland's largest circulation and most influential daily newspaper , until the late 1970s , and in the 1980s he also supplied the Finnish photo magazine Suomen Kuvalehti .

Tournament chess

Kaila won the individual championships in Finland in 1939 and 1954 . He was also three times second (1947, 1951 and 1952) and once third (1945). All of these championships took place in Helsinki. At the Nordic Championship in Oslo in 1939 , he finished third behind Gideon Ståhlberg and Erik Lundin . At the first Nordic championship after the end of the war, which took place in Copenhagen in 1946 , he was able to win.

With the Finnish national team, he took part in the 1936 national tournament in Munich , where he scored 13 points from 20 games on the seventh board. At the 1952 Chess Olympiad in Helsinki he played on board three with a score of 6 out of 11, including a win against Herbert Heinicke .

In 1952 he was awarded the title of International Master by the World Chess Federation FIDE .

Chess composition

At the first world championship of chess composition he and Erkki Heinonen took second place in the group fairy tale chess G2. The task was "a reflex matt two-move with at least two different white self-blocks from different fields or the same field". He was also a judge for the group auxiliary matt G1.

Since 1958 he was an international judge for chess composition. In 1990 he received the title of FIDE Chess Composition Master from the PCCC .

Publications

  • Jokamiehen Shakkiopas [chess leaders for everyone]. Propaganda-Aseveljet ry, Helsinki 1943.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Osmo Kailan muistolle . Article from April 16, 2005 on sanaristikot.net (Finnish)
  2. ↑ List of Nordic Masters (Finnish)
  3. ↑ Osmo Kaila on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ International judges of chess composition (English)
  5. ↑ All FIDE Masters of Chess Composition (English)
personal data
SURNAME Kaila, Osmo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaila, Osmo Ilmari
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish crossword inventor, chess player, composer and composition judge
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1991
Place of death Helsinki