Leonids Dreibergs (Leonid Dreiberg) (27 October 1908, Riga – 6 April 1969, Saginaw, Michigan) was a Latvian–American chess master. Riga (Rīga riːga) the Capital of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast on the mouth of the river Daugava.
He took 6th at Riga 1930 (Vladimirs Petrovs won),[1] took 9th at Kemeri 1939 (Salo Flohr won),[2] and took 5th at Riga 1941 (Alexander Koblencs won). Vladimirs Petrovs or Vladimir Petrov ( 27 September 1907 – 26 August 1943 at Kotlas was a Latvian chess master Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr ( November 21, 1908 &ndash July 18, 1983) was a leading Czech and later Soviet Chess Alexander Koblents (Aleksandrs Koblencs Alexander Koblenz Aleksander Koblenc ( 3 September 1916, Riga – 9 December 1993, [3]
At the end of World War II, joining the westward exodus in 1944/45, he — along with many other Baltic players, e. g. Romanas Arlauskas, Lucijs Endzelins, Miervaldis Jursevskis, Leho Laurine, Edmar Mednis, Karlis Ozols, Ortvin Sarapu, Povilas Tautvaišas, Povilas Vaitonis, Elmars Zemgalis, etc. Romanas Arlauskas (born 11 June 1917, Kaunas, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian-born Australian 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 Edmar John Mednis ( March 22, 1937 &ndash February 13, 2002) was an American International Grandmaster of Chess 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. Fedor Bohatirchuk, Stepan Popel, Myroslav 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.
After the war, as a D. P. (Displaced Person) in West Germany, he tied for 12-13th at Augsburg 1946 (Wolfgang Unzicker won),[4] and shared 1st with Zemgalis at Esslingen 1949. Then, he emigrated to the United States. Dreibergs won twice the Michigan Championship (1954 and 1955). [5] He also played in Correspondence Chess League of America (CCLA). [6]
References
- ^ http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01
- ^ Aberdeen (Scottish Championship) 1939
- ^ http://www.geocities.com/al2055perv/ch_repub/1941/ch_lat41.html
- ^ 1946
- ^ http://www.michess.org/mca_pages/mca_past_champ.shtml
- ^ CCLA's North American Class Champions
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