Voldemārs Mežgailis

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Voldemārs Mežgailis (Voldemar Mezgailis or Mezhgailis) (born 22 April 1912, Lustuze) a Latvian chess master.

In 1934, he took 8th Latvian Chess Championship in Riga (Fricis Apšenieks and Vladimirs Petrovs won).[1] He twice represented Latvia in Chess Olympiads: in the 3rd unofficial Olympiad at Munich 1936 (at sixth board, +4 –5 =1), and in the 7th Olympiad at Stockholm 1937 (at third board, +2 –6 =7).[2]

At the end of WW II, he won Latvian Chess Championship in June 1944. He won again the Latvian Championship in 1950.[3],[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ GER-ch 2nd Aachen 1934
  2. ^ OlimpBase :: the encyclopaedia of team chess
  3. ^ http://www.latchess.lv/lv/2005/11/09/lv_218.html?template=23 Latvijas čempions
  4. ^ http://www.geocities.com/al2055perv/index.html RUSBASE (part IV) 1938-1960
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