Paul Keres
Estonian chess player and sportsperson (1916–1975)
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Paul Keres was an Estonian chess grandmaster who lived from 1916 to 1975 and became one of the world's strongest players during his era. He is remembered as an important figure in chess history and a celebrated sportsperson in his native Estonia.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1916
- Died
- 1975
- Works
- 24
Top works
- How to Open a Chess Game
- The 14 games played in the match between Paul Keres and Max Euwe (Holland, 1939/40) with notes from various sources
- Keres' best games of chess, 1931-1948
- Art of the Middle Game
- Maleaabits
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations
· 1958 · cited 70,537x
- “Mini-mental state”
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Paul Keres (7 January 1916 – 5 June 1975) was an Estonian chess grandmaster and chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s, and narrowly missed a chance at a World Chess Championship match on five occasions. As Estonia was repeatedly invaded and occupied during World War II, Keres was forced by the circumstances to represent the Soviet Union (1940–41, 1944–75) and Nazi Germany (1941–44) in international tournaments.
Keres won the AVRO 1938 chess tournament, which led to negotiations for a title match against the reigning World Champion Alexander Alekhine, but the match never took place due to the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Keres was runner-up in the Candidates Tournament on four consecutive occasions in 1953–1962. Due to these and other strong results, many chess historians consider Keres one of the greatest "Super grandmasters" in history, and, along with Viktor Korchnoi, the strongest player never to become world champion.