Alfred (Fred) Flatow (born 28 August 1937 in

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) is an Australian

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and former Australian Chess Champion. Flatow was born in Germany and emigrated to Australia. He was City of Sydney Champion eleven times (1963, 1967, 1968 (jointly), 1969, 1970, 1972, 1975 (jointly), 1981 (jointly), 1982, 1983, and 1985), and won the

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in Sydney 1969/70. He also twice won the

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in Canberra in 1970 (jointly) and 1972. He twice played for Australia in

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s (Lugano 1968 and Skopje 1972).

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