Anatol Tschepurnoff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Anatol Tschepurnoff

Finnish chess player

Date of Birth: 19-Dec-1871

Place of Birth: Loviisa, Uusimaa, Finland

Date of Death: 29-Apr-1942

Profession: chess player

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Anatol Tschepurnoff

  • Anatol (Anatoly) Tschepurnoff (Tchepurnoff, Chepurnov, Czepurnow) (19 December 1871, Loviisa – 29 April 1942, Helsinki) was a Russian–Finnish chess master. Before World War I, he played in many tournaments at Saint Petersburg.
  • In 1903, he took 5th.
  • In 1904, he took 9th (Eugene Znosko-Borovsky won), took 2nd (Grigory Helbach won), tied for 4-5th (Koyalovich won).
  • In 1908, he tied for 7-8th (Sergey von Freymann and Rosenkrantz won).
  • In 1909, he took 14th (Alexander Alekhine won), tied for 7-8th (Grigory Levenfish won).
  • In 1911, he took 8th (Fyodor Duz-Chotimirsky and Znosko-Borovsky won), tied for 5-6th (Ilya Rabinovich and Platz won).
  • In 1913, he took 3rd. After the war, he won 1st Finnish Championship in 1922.
  • He played in 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad at Paris 1924.
  • He was 1st in Qualification Group 7, and tied for 4-6th in Championship Final (1st World-ch Amateurs; Hermanis Matisons won).
  • On 20 July 1924, fifteen delegates signed the proclamation act of the Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE).
  • The 15 founders were Abonyi (Hungary), Grau (Argentina), Gudju (Romania), Marusi (Italy), Nicolet (Switzerland), Ovadija (Yugoslavia), Renalver y Zamora (Spain), Rawlins (Great Britain), Rueb (Netherlands), Skalicka (Czechoslovakia), Smith (Canada), Towbin (Poland), Tschepurnoff (Finland), Vincent (France), and Weltjens (Belgium).In 1926, he took 3rd in Budapest.
  • In 1927, he represented Finland at first board (+4 –7 =4) in the 1st Chess Olympiad in London.
  • In 1928, he tied for 12–14th in The Hague (2d FIDE World Amateur Championship; Max Euwe won).
  • In 1929, he took 7th in Gothenburg.
  • (14th Nordic-ch; Gideon StĂĄhlberg won).
  • In 1930, he took 3rd in Stockholm (15th Nordic-ch; Erik Andersen won).
  • In 1930, he tied for 2nd-4th in Helsinki (Eero Böök won).
  • In 1931, he lost a match to Böök (4,5 : 5,5).

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