Andreas Dückstein
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Andreas Dückstein (born 2 August 1927, Budapest) an Austrian chess master.
Born in Hungary, he left for Austria at the age of 22. Dückstein was thrice Austrian Champion (1954, 1956, 1977).[1]
He tied for 11-13th at Zagreb 1955 (Vassily Smyslov won), took 14th at Wageningen 1957 (zonal, László Szabó won), took 5th at Hastings 1958/59 (Wolfgang Uhlmann won), shared 2nd at Berg en Dal (zonal, Friðrik Ólafsson won),[2] tied for 4-6th at Vienna 1961 (Yuri Averbakh won),[3] took 3rd at Amsterdam 1964 (IBM, Bent Larsen won),[4] took 4th at Palma de Mallorca 1965. [5]
He played for Austria in several Chess Olympiads:
- In 1956, at second board in 12th Olympiad in Moscow (+11 –2 =4);
- In 1958, at first board in 13th Olympiad in Munich (+6 –5 =8);
- In 1962, at second board in 15th Olympiad in Varna (+2 –6 =2);
- In 1964, at first board in 16th Olympiad in Tel Aviv (+8 –5 =3);
- In 1968, at first board in 18th Olympiad in Lugano (+5 –2 =5);
- In 1970, at first board in 19th Olympiad in Siegen (+4 –2 =6);
- In 1974, at second board in 21st Olympiad in Nice (+8 –0 =4);
- In 1976, at second board in 22nd Olympiad in Haifa (+5 –4 =1);
- In 1988, at second reserve board in 28th Olympiad in Thessaloniki (+2 –2 =3).
He won two individual gold medals, at Moscow 1956 and at Nice 1974.[6]
Awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1956.
