Kārlis Ozols (born August 9, 1912, Riga – died March 23, 2001, Australia) was a Latvian-Australian chess player.
Ozols represented Latvia at eighth board (+7 -1 =7) in unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936 where he won individual bronze medal. The Chess Olympiad is a Biennial Chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other He also played at fourth board (+2 -5 =3) in the 7th Olympiad at Stockholm 1937. [1]
In 1937, he tied for 17-18th in Kemeri. The event was won by three players: Salo Flohr, Vladimirs Petrovs and Samuel Reshevsky. Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr ( November 21, 1908 &ndash July 18, 1983) was a leading Czech and later Soviet Chess Vladimirs Petrovs or Vladimir Petrov ( 27 September 1907 – 26 August 1943 at Kotlas was a Latvian chess master Samuel Herman (Sammy Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski, November 26, 1911, Ozorków near Lodz, (then Russian Empire In 1939, he took 16th in Kemeri-Riga (Flohr won). In 1941, he took 8th in Riga (1st Latvian SSR-ch, Alexander Koblencs won). Alexander Koblents (Aleksandrs Koblencs Alexander Koblenz Aleksander Koblenc ( 3 September 1916, Riga – 9 December 1993, [2] In 1944, he won the Riga championship. In Spring 1945 he left Riga by sea just before the advancing Soviet forces arrived. He landed in West Germany and spent the next several years in various D. P. (Displaced Person) camps across Germany. As other displaced persons from the Baltic countries after World War II he played in a number of small international events, including The Matisons Memorial Tourney in Hanau (near Frankfurt) in 1947, which was won by his fellow Latvian Lūcijs Endzelīns, ahead of Elmārs Zemgalis, Efim Bogoljubow and Hönlinger. 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 Lūcijs (Lucius Endzelīns ( 21 May 1909, Dorpat (Tartu Estonia – 27 October 1981, Adelaide, Australia Elmārs Zemgalis (born 9 September 1923, Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian American Chess master and mathematics professor Efim Dmitriyevich Bogoljubow (Bogoljubov Bogolyubov (Ефи́м Дми́триевич Боголю́бов April 14, 1889 &ndash June 18, Ozols was equal fifth.
He immigrated to Australia in 1949. Ozols won the Victorian Championship 9 times. He jointly won the Australian Championship in 1956 and became an International Master at Correspondence Chess in 1972. [3]
Ozols was accused of taking part in war atrocities during World War II, but was never prosecuted. 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 [4] [5] [6]
References
- ^ OlimpBase :: the encyclopaedia of team chess
- ^ http://www.geocities.com/al2055perv/ch_repub/1941/ch_lat41.html
- ^ Chess Column
- ^ Fingering the SS, Mark Aarons, The Australia/Israel Review, 1-22 October 1997
- ^ Parliament of Australia, Notices for 15 February 2000, p. 54-55
- ^ Hansard of Australian House of Representatives, 11 February 1999, "War Criminals", Michael Danby, p. Michael David Danby (born 16 February 1955) is an Australian politician and has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian 166-167
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