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Valeri Beim ( Hebrew ולרי ביים; * March 17, 1950 ) is an Austrian chess player , chess trainer and chess author.

Career

Valeri Beim comes from Odessa and emigrated to Israel in the early 1990s . At the 1990 Chess Olympiad in Novi Sad he was a member of the Israeli team. In 1994 FIDE awarded him the title of Grand Master .

TV Tegernsee, winner of the German Blitzmannschafts Championship 2004 in Bad Godesberg (from left to right: Gerald Hertneck , Horst Leckner, Markus Stangl , Waleri Beim and Klaus Bischoff ).

In the German federal chess league, Beim played from 1999 to 2009 at TV Tegernsee , with whom he was also German team champion in blitz chess in 2004 and 2009 . Beim played in the Austrian Bundesliga from 2002 to 2005 for SV Tschaturanga . His Elo rating is 2502 (as of January 2016), but he is listed as inactive at FIDE because he has not played an elo-rated game since the team competitions of the 2008/09 season. Beim had his highest Elo rating of 2570 in January and July 1996.

Tournament successes

• Herzliya 1993: 2nd / 3rd space
• Budapest April 1994: 1st - 3rd space
• Budapest May 1995: 1st / 2nd space
• Linz 1997: 1st place, tied ahead of Zoltán Almási
• Schwarzach im Pongau 1997: 1st place
• Aschach / Donau 1997: shared 2nd place
• Odessa 2005 Efim Geller Memorial Tournament: shared 2nd place

Publications

• Understanding the Leningrad Dutch . Gambit Publications, ISBN 978-1-901983-72-2
• Chess Recipes from the Grandmaster's Kitchen . Gambit Publications, ISBN 978-1-901983-55-5
• How to Calculate Chess Tactics . Gambit Publications, ISBN 978-1-904600-50-3
• How to Play Dynamic Chess . Gambit Publications, ISBN 978-1-904600-15-2
• Lessons in Chess Strategy . Gambit Publications, ISBN 978-1-901983-93-7
• Paul Morphy , a modern perspective . Russell, ISBN 1-888690-26-7

Web links

• Valeri Beim at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
• Replayable chess games by Waleri Beim on 365Chess.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Valeri Beims results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 82
3. ↑ 21st German Blitzmannschaftsmeisterschaft 2004 on June 19, 2004 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg on TeleSchach (photos and video)
4. ↑ Chess Festival Linz / Upper Austria from May 17th to 25th 1997
5. ↑ 6th Raiffeisen Donau Open from December 26 to 31, 1997 in Aschach / Donau on TeleSchach