Viktors Pupols

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Viktors (Viktor Pupols) Pūpols (born 1935) a Latvian-American chess master.

In 1955, he played in Lincoln, Nebraska (US Junior-ch; Charles Kalme won), and beat young Bobby Fischer there.

Viktors Pupols first played in a Washington State Championship tournament in 1954. He has played in most of the tournaments since, winning outright in 1961, 1974, and 1989, and tying for first in 1978. He won the tournament in 1964, but Gerald Ronning took the title in a match.

In 1975, he tied for 6-11th in Vancouver (Paul Keres won, immediately before his death). In 1980, he won the Keres Memorial in Vancouver. He thrice won the Idaho Open (in 1984, 1985, and 1986). Just as he first did in 1956 as a teenage wunderkind, Viktors Pupols again won the Eastern Washington Open in 2005.

He frequently plays at the Tacoma Chess Club, and some of his gamescan be viewed online.