Alexander Koblencs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alexander Koblencs

Latvian chess player, trainer, and writer

Date of Birth: 03-Sep-1916

Place of Birth: Riga, Latvia

Date of Death: 09-Dec-1993

Profession: writer, journalist, chess player, chess coach, chess journalist

Nationality: Latvia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Alexander Koblencs

  • Alexander Koblencs (Latvian: Aleksandrs Koblencs, Russian: ????????? ???????; 3 September 1916, Riga – 9 December 1993, Berlin) was a Latvian chess master, trainer, and writer.
  • He is best known as the trainer of the 1960-61 World Champion Mikhail Tal. In 1935, he took 4th place in Rosas (Salo Flohr won).
  • In 1936, he took 5th in Reus (Esteban Canal and Silbermann won).
  • In 1937, he won, ahead of Lajos Steiner, in Brno with 9/11.
  • In 1938, he took 5th in Milan (Erich Eliskases and Mario Monticelli won).
  • In 1939, he tied for 13-14th in Kemeri-Riga (Flohr won). 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, both were off contest (hors concours).
  • In June 1944, he took 2nd, behind Voldemars Mežgailis, in Udelnaya (Latvian SSR ch.).
  • In 1944/45, he took 2nd, behind Paul Keres, in Riga (Baltic Chess Championship).
  • In 1945, he took 14th in Moscow (14th USSR-ch).
  • In October/November 1945, he tied for 3rd-4th in Riga (Baltic Republics ch., Vladas Mikenas won).
  • In June/July 1946, he tied for 6-8th in Vilnius (Baltic Rep.
  • ch, Yuri Averbakh won).
  • In 1961, he took 3rd in Palanga (Baltic Rep.
  • ch, Iivo Nei won).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, in particular into German.
  • For several years, he was the editor of the Latvian chess magazine Å ahs and of the German chess magazine Schach-Journal.

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