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Rein Etruk
Rein-Toomas Etruk (March 22, 1938, Tallinn – September 11, 2012, Tallinn) was an Estonian chess player who three times won the Estonian Chess Championship. Biography In 1954 and 1955, Etruk won the Estonian Junior chess championship. Etruk played for Estonia in various Soviet Team Chess Championships. He finished with the highest score on his board in 1958 and 1967 but in 1962, came third. Etruk won nine medals in the Estonian Chess Championship: three gold (1965, 1969, 1973), three silver (1964, 1966, 1970) and three bronze (1962, 1967, 1968). In 1974 and 1990, he won the Estonian Blitz Chess Championship. In 1971, Etruk finished sixth in the Pärnu tournament, which was won by Leonid Stein, ahead of Mikhail Tal, Paul Keres and David Bronstein. Etruk was a graduate of the faculty of philology of the University of Tartu. References External links * * player profile at OlimpBase.org (Soviet Team Chess Championship) player profile at OlimpBase.org (Soviet Team Cup) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ''maakond'' (county). Tallinn is the main financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located northwest of the country's second largest city Tartu, however only south of Helsinki, Finland, also west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, north of Riga, Latvia, and east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical name Reval. Tallinn received Lübeck city rights in 1248,, however the earliest evidence of human population in the area dates back nearly 5,000 years. The medieval indigenous population of what is now Tallinn and northern Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Christianit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
