Anatol Tschepurnoff

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Anatol (Anatoly) Tschepurnoff (Tchepurnoff, Chepurnov, Czepurnow) (born 19 December 1871, Loviisa – died 29 April 1942, Helsinki) was a Finnish chess master.

Before WW I, he played in many tournaments at Sankt Petersburg. In 1903, he took 5th. In 1904 , he took 9th (Eugene Znosko-Borovsky won), took 2nd (Helbach won), tied for 4-5th (Koyalovitch won). In 1908, he tied for 7-8th ([[Sergey von Freymann] and Rosenkrantz won). In 1909, he took 14th (Alexander Alekhine won), tied for 7-8th (Grigory Levenfish won). In 1911, he took 8th (Fyodor Duz-Chotimirsky and Znosko-Borovsky won), tied for 5-6th (Ilya Rabinovich and Platz won). In 1913, he took 3rd.

After the war, he won 1st Finnish Championship in 1922. He played in 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad at Paris 1924. He was 1st in Qualification Group 7, and tied for 4-6th in Championship Final (1st World-ch Amateurs; Hermanis Matisons won). On 20 th of July 1924, fifteen delegates signed the proclomation act of the Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE). The 15 founders were Abonyi (Hungary), Grau (Argentina), Gudju (Romania), Marusi (Italy), Nicolet (Switzerland), Ovadija (Yugoslavia), Renalver y Zamora (Spain), Rawlins (Great Britain), Rueb (Netherlands), Skalička (Czechoslovakia), Smith (Canada), Towbin (Poland), Tschepurnoff (Finland), Vincent (France), and Weltjens (Belgium). ^[1]

In 1926, he took 3rd in Budapest. In 1927, he represented Finland at first board (+4 –7 =4) in the 1st Chess Olympiad in London. In 1928, he tied for 12-14th in The Hague (2d FIDE World Amateur Championship; Max Euwe won). In 1929, he took 7th in Göteborg. (Nordic-ch; Gideon Stahlberg won). In 1930, he took 3rd in Stockholm (Nordic-ch; Erik Andersen won). In 1930, he tied for 2nd-4th in Helsinki (Eero Böök won) . ^[2] In 1931, he lost a match to Böök (4,5 : 5,5).