Valentí Marín

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Valenti Marin, around 1896

Valentí Marín i Llovet (born January 17, 1872 in Barcelona ; † December 7, 1936 there ) was a Catalan notary , chess player , chess composer and non-fiction author.

For Spain he played in five Chess Olympiads from 1924 to 1931 : in 1924 he took part in the unofficial Chess Olympiad in Paris in 1924 , later he played at the official Chess Olympiad in London in 1927 , in The Hague in 1928 , in Hamburg in 1930 and in Prague in 1931 .

He was president of the Spanish Chess Federation ( Federación Española de Ajedrez , FEDA).

Works

  • Un artista en ajedrez (Valentín Marín) , 1913, bilingual edition ( Spanish / Esperanto )

literature

  • Chess Yearbook for 1899/1900 , Veit & Comp., Leipzig 1899, p. 180
  • Obituary for Valentí Marín . In: El Mundo Deportivo, 31/12/1936, p. 3 (Spanish)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Valentí Marín's results at unofficial Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Valentí Marín's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Marín, Valentí
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marín i Llovet, Valentí (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish notary, chess player, chess composer and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1936
Place of death Barcelona