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Edmar Mednis
Edmar Mednis

Edmar John Mednis (1937–February 13, 2002) was an American chess International Grandmaster (awarded in 1980), born in Riga, Latvia. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. The title Grandmaster is awarded to extremely strong Chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. Riga (Rīga riːga) the Capital of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast on the mouth of the river Daugava. Latvia ( Latvija officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvijas Republika is a Country in Northern Europe in the Baltic region. He was also a popular and respected chess writer.

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Biography

At the end of World War II, joining the westward exodus in 1944/45, he — along with many other Baltic players, e. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including g. Arlauskas, Dreibergs, Endzelins, Jursevskis, Laurine, Ozols, Sarapu, Tautvaišas, Vaitonis, Zemgalis, etc. Romanas Arlauskas (born 11 June 1917, Kaunas, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian-born Australian chess master Leonids Dreibergs (Leonid Dreiberg (27 October 1908 Riga – 6 April 1969 Saginaw Michigan) was a Latvian–American Chess master Lūcijs (Lucius Endzelīns ( 21 May 1909, Dorpat (Tartu Estonia – 27 October 1981, Adelaide, Australia Miervaldis ‘Walter’ Jursevskis (born 1921 Riga, Latvia) a Latvian-Canadian Chess master Leho Laurine (Leo Laurentius ( 28 August 1904, St Petersburg – 31 January 1998, Stockholm) was an Estonian Kārlis Ozols (born August 9 1912 Riga – died March 23 2001 Australia was a Latvian-Australian chess player Ortvin Sarapu MBE ( 22 January 1924 in Narva, Estonia &ndash 13 April 1999 in Auckland, New Povilas (Paul Tautvaišas (Tautvaisas Tautvaisis (born 6 May 1916 – died November 1980 was a Lithuanian-American chess master Povilas (Paul Vaitonis ( 15 August 1911, in Užpaliai, Lithuania – 23 April 1983, in Hamilton, Canada Elmārs Zemgalis (born 9 September 1923, Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian American Chess master and mathematics professor , and Ukrainian players, e. g. Bohatirchuk, Popel, Turiansky, etc. Fedor Parfen'evych Bogatyrchuk (Bogatirchuk Bohatirchuk Bogatyrtschuk Bohatyrchuk Bohatyrczuk (in Russian: Фёдор Парфеньевич Богатырчук Stepan (Stefan Stephan Stephen Popel (Popiel ( 15 August 1909 – 27 December 1987) was a multiple Chess champion of Lviv Paris Myroslav (Miroslav Turiansky (10 October 1912 Rudky near Lviv - 28 December 1998 Radekhiv near Lviv was an Ukrainian chess master — moved to the West.

He took second place in the 1955 World Junior Championship, behind Boris Spassky, drawing their individual game. Boris Vasilievich Spassky (also Spasskij (Бори́с Васи́льевич Спа́сский (born January 30, 1937) is a Russian French In Chess, a draw is one of the possible outcomes of a game the others being a win for white and a win for black He was the first player to beat Bobby Fischer in a U. Robert James "Bobby" Fischer ( March 9 1943 – January 17 2008) was an American -born Chess Grandmaster S. Championship. He played on the 1962 United States Olympiad team and finished equal third in the 1961-62 U. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Chess Olympiad is a Biennial Chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. S. Championship. "The Championship" redirects here For the English football competition see Football League Championship. In tournaments he finished third at Houston 1974, equal fourth at New York 1980, and equal first at Puerto Rico 1984. A tournament (IPA) is a Competition involving a relatively large number of competitors all participating in a Sport or Game. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Puerto Rico (ˌpwertoˈriko officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico" {{lang-en|"Associated Free State of Puerto Rico"}} Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) The Puerto Rico Chess Federation rather than the United States Chess Federation formally proposed him for the Grandmaster title. The United States Chess Federation ( USCF) is a non-profit organization the governing Chess organization within the United States, and one of the federations He played in the 1979 Interzonal tournament in Riga, his birthplace. Interzonal chess tournaments were tournaments organized by FIDE, the World Chess Federation

Mednis became best known as a chess author. Chess is a recreational and competitive Game played between two players. He wrote twenty-six chess books and hundreds of chess articles. He and Robert Byrne annotated many games for Chess Informant. Robert Eugene Byrne (born April 20, 1928, New York City) is a leading American Chess player a Grandmaster, and a Chess Informant ( Šahovski Informator) is a publishing company that periodically produces a book of the same name as well as the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings, He was trained as a chemical engineer, then became a stock broker. In 1982, he wrote Practical Rook Endings. He suffered a fatal heart attack in 2002 at Woodside, Queens, New York. Myocardial infarction ( MI or AMI for acute myocardial infarction) also known as a heart attack, occurs when the blood supply

Sample games

Edmar Mednis
Edmar Mednis

Here is his victory over Fischer:

Fischer-Mednis, U. S. Championship 1962 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Qc7 7. Nf3 Bd7 8. a4 Ne7 9. Bd3 Nbc6 10. O-O c4 11. Be2 f6 12. Ba3 O-O 13. Re1 Rf7 14. exf6 gxf6 15. Bf1 Re8 16. Nh4 Ng6 17. Qh5 Rg7 18. g3 Qa5 19. Bb2 Nd8 20. Re3 Nf7 21. Kh1 Nd6 22. Nxg6 hxg6 23. Qe2 Rh7 24. Kg1 Kf7 25. h4 f5 26. Qf3 Ne4 27. Qf4 Rc8 28. Bg2 Qc7 29. Qxc7 Rxc7 30. a5 Rc6 31. Ba3 Ra6 32. Bb4 Rh8 33. Ree1 Bc6 34. Bf3 Nd2 35. Be2 Ne4 36. Kg2 Nf6 37. Rh1 Be8 38. Kf3 Ne4 39. Ke3 Nf6 40. f3 Bd7 41. g4 Be8 42. Kf4 Bb5 43. h5 gxh5 44. Rag1 Be8 45. Ke3 b6 46. axb6 Rxb6 47. Ra1 Rb7 48. Bd6 Rh7 49. gxf5? (49. g5 Mednis) exf5 50. Rh4 Ke6 51. Bh2 Rb2 52. Kd2 Rhb7 53. Kc1 R2b6 54. Bf1 Ng8 55. Bf4 a5 56. Rh2 a4 57. Bh3 Ne7 58. Bg5 Kf7 59. Re2 Re6 60. Rxe6 Kxe6 61. Kd1 Nc8 62. Kd2 Bd7 63. Bg2 Ra7 64. Re1+ Kd6 65. Bh6 a3 66. Bf8+ Kc6 67. Bc5 Ra8 68. Ra1 a2 69. Ke3 Nd6 70. Kf4 Nb5 71. Bb4 h4 72. Bh3 Nc7 73. Be7 0-1

Here is a crushing win by Mednis over future World Champion candidate Jan Timman:

Mednis-Timman, Sombor 1974 1. Jan Timman (born December 14, 1951) is a Dutch Chess Grandmaster who was one of the world's leading players from the late 1970s to e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. g4 Nc6 7. g5 Nd7 8. Be3 Nc5 9. Qd2 a6 10. O-O-O Bd7 11. f4 b5 12. Bg2 b4 13. Nce2 Rb8 14. Kb1 Qc7 15. h4 a5 16. h5 a4 17. g6 b3 18. gxf7+ Kxf7 19. cxb3 axb3 20. a3 h6 21. Rhf1 Nxd4 22. Nxd4 Ke8 23. Qf2 Bc8 24. e5 Rb6 25. f5 Bb7 26. fxe6 dxe5 27. Qg3 Bxg2 28. Qg6+ Kd8 29. Nb5+ Rd6 30. Qxg2 1-0

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