Fred Flatow

Alfred (Fred) Flatow (born 28 August 1937, Berlin)[1] is an Australian chess master and former Australian Chess Champion.[2]

Flatow was born in Germany, and emigrated to Australia. He was eleven times City of Sydney Champion (1963, 1967, 1968 (jointly), 1969, 1970, 1972, 1975 (jointly), 1981 (jointly), 1982, 1983, and 1985),[3] and won the Australian Chess Championship at Sydney 1969/70.[4] He also won twice the Doeberl Cup in Canberra in 1970 (jointly) and 1972.

He twice played for Australia in Chess Olympiads, at Lugano 1968 and Skopje 1972.[5]

Flatow holds the FIDE Master title.[6]

References

  1. ^ Alfred Flatow at Chessgames.com
  2. ^ He is usually known as Fred Flatow. See for instance Sydney Morning Herald chess column of 8-Oct-2008
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ "ACF records". Auschess.org.au. http://www.auschess.org.au/acfrec.htm. Retrieved 2011-12-16. 
  5. ^ Wojciech Bartelski. "OlimpBase Men's Chess Olympiads Alfred Flatow". Olimpbase.org. http://www.olimpbase.org/players/rzt7ltre.html. Retrieved 2011-12-16. 
  6. ^ [2]

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