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🔸 Alexander Koblencs
🔸 Latvian chess master, trainer and writer
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🔸 Alexander Koblencs
🔸 Latvian chess master, trainer and writer
@unitychess
#Koblencs
🔸 Alexander Koblencs
🔸 Latvian chess master, trainer and writer
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@unitychess
🔸 Alexander Koblencs
🔸 Latvian chess master, trainer and writer
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
@unitychess
#Koblencs
🔸 Alexander Koblencs
🔸 Latvian chess master, trainer and writer
🔰 Alexander Koblencs was a Latvian chess master, trainer, and writer. In 1935, he took 4th place in Rosas. In 1936, he took 5th in Reus. In 1937, he won, ahead of Lajos Steiner, in Brno with 9/11. In 1938, he took 5th in Milan. In 1939, he tied for 13-14th in Kemeri-Riga.
Koblencs won the Latvian Championship four times (1941, 1945, 1946, 1949). Although he took 2nd, behind Vladimir Alatortsev in 1945, and behind Mark Taimanov in 1949.
As a trainer, he started to work with young Mikhail Tal in 1949, and coached him through his meteoric rise from the mid-1950s. Most prominently, he coached him in his World Chess Championship matches in 1960 and 1961 against Mikhail Botvinnik.
He also coached the team of the Soviet Union (e.g., 1956 in Moscow and 1960 in Leipzig).
Koblencs is also well known as a writer of chess books, many of which have been translated into foreign languages, in particular German. For several years, he was the editor of the Latvian chess magazine Sahs and of the German chess magazine Schach-Journal.
🔘 Country: Latvia, Soviet Union
🔘 Born: 3 September 1916
🔺Riga, Russian Empire
🔘 Died: 9 December 1993 (aged 77)
🔺Berlin, Germany
🔘Title: Master of Sport (1945) & Honoured Trainer (1960)
♦️ A memorable and short game in only 10 moves by Alexander Koblencs!!
His opponent, Zagorovsky, in this game is a GMC and has won 4th World Correspondence Championship(1965).👇
🔸 Alexander Koblents vs Vladimir Zagorovsky
🔸 Wilna (1946)
🔸 King's Gambit: Accepted. Schallop Defense (C34)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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@unitychess
🔸 Alexander Koblencs
🔸 Latvian chess master, trainer and writer
🔰 Alexander Koblencs was a Latvian chess master, trainer, and writer. In 1935, he took 4th place in Rosas. In 1936, he took 5th in Reus. In 1937, he won, ahead of Lajos Steiner, in Brno with 9/11. In 1938, he took 5th in Milan. In 1939, he tied for 13-14th in Kemeri-Riga.
Koblencs won the Latvian Championship four times (1941, 1945, 1946, 1949). Although he took 2nd, behind Vladimir Alatortsev in 1945, and behind Mark Taimanov in 1949.
As a trainer, he started to work with young Mikhail Tal in 1949, and coached him through his meteoric rise from the mid-1950s. Most prominently, he coached him in his World Chess Championship matches in 1960 and 1961 against Mikhail Botvinnik.
He also coached the team of the Soviet Union (e.g., 1956 in Moscow and 1960 in Leipzig).
Koblencs is also well known as a writer of chess books, many of which have been translated into foreign languages, in particular German. For several years, he was the editor of the Latvian chess magazine Sahs and of the German chess magazine Schach-Journal.
🔘 Country: Latvia, Soviet Union
🔘 Born: 3 September 1916
🔺Riga, Russian Empire
🔘 Died: 9 December 1993 (aged 77)
🔺Berlin, Germany
🔘Title: Master of Sport (1945) & Honoured Trainer (1960)
♦️ A memorable and short game in only 10 moves by Alexander Koblencs!!
His opponent, Zagorovsky, in this game is a GMC and has won 4th World Correspondence Championship(1965).👇
🔸 Alexander Koblents vs Vladimir Zagorovsky
🔸 Wilna (1946)
🔸 King's Gambit: Accepted. Schallop Defense (C34)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
@unitychess