1945 in chess

The below is a list of events in chess in the year 1945.

Chess events in brief

Tournaments

Team matches

  • 17–18 July, Sofia: Sofia vs. Belgrade 7-9
  • 1–4 September, radio match: Soviet Union vs. United States 15½-4½ (8-2, 7½-2½)

(Botvinnik 11 Denker; Smyslov 11 Reshevsky; Boleslavsky ½1 Fine; Flohr 10 Horowitz; Kotov 11 Kashdan; Bondarevsky 0½ H.Steiner; Lilienthal ½½ Pinkus; Ragozin 11 Seidman; Makogonov 1½ Kupchik; Bronstein 11 Santasiere)[5]

Births

Deaths

  • 1945 – Arthur Wijnans, Dutch master, possibly killed in an Allied bombardment in Germany.
  • January 1945 – Wolfgang Weil, Austrian master, died in combat in Croatia.
  • 14 January 1945 – Arnold van den Hoek, Dutch master, killed in an Allied bombardment in a labor camp at Watenstedt, suburb of Brunswick, Germany.
  • 15 January 1945 – Kornél Havasi died in Budapest, Hungary.
  • 1 April 1945 – Zoltán von Balla died in a traffic accident with a Soviet tank in Budapest, Hungary.
  • 17 April 1945 – Klaus Junge, a lieutenant of the 12th SS Battalion, refusing to surrender, died in combat against Allied troops in the battle of Welle on the Lüneburger Heide, close to Hamburg.
  • ca. May 1945 – Heinz Nowarra possibly killed in an Allied bombardment in Berlin, Germany.
  • 25 June 1945 – Lazar Zalkind, Ukrainian chess problemist, died of a heart attack in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Krai, located in the Russian Far East.
  • 14 October 1945 – Győző Exner, Hungarian master, died in Hungary.
  • 20 October 1945 – Julius Dimer, German master, died in Germany.

References

  1. Mark Wyman, Dps: Europe's Displaced Persons, 19451951; reprinted 1998 Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-8542-8
  2. Andris Fride, Vladimirs Petrovs: A Chessplayer's Story from Greatness to the Gulags, 2004 Caissa Editions, Yorklyn, Delaware, USA. ISBN 0-939433-61-3
  3. "USA-USSR RADIO MATCH of 1945". Archived from the original on 2008-10-10. Retrieved 2008-10-13.
  4. "Computer Chess History by Bill Wall (April 6, 2008)". Archived from the original on October 18, 2009.
  5. OlimpBase :: Friendly matches
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