Andres Vooremaa (born 19 July 1944) is an Estonian chess player, who twice won the Estonian Chess Championship. He was awarded the Soviet Master title in 1969.

Biography

Vooremaa was born in Rae Parish. In 1968 he graduated from

Tallinn Polytechnical Institute Established in 1918, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech; et, Tallinna Tehnikaülikool) is the only technical university in Estonia. TalTech, in the capital city of Tallinn, is a university for engineering, business, public administratio ...

with a degree in industrial electronics.VOOREMAA, ANDRES
/ref> From 1971 to 1994 he worked as an engineer. In 1961 Andres Vooremaa won the Estonian Junior Chess Championship. He won the Tallinn Chess Championship in 1962, 1964 and 1970. In 1969 became a Soviet Master. In 1970 Vooremaa won the Baltic Chess Championship in Pärnu. He twice won the Estonian Chess Championship in 1972 and 1973, finished second three times (1971, 1974, 1985) and finished third once in 1980.Eesti meistrid 1923—2005
He has played for Estonia five times in the Soviet Team Chess Championships (1963, 1972, 1975, 1979, 1981), and twice played for the Estonian team "Kalev" in the Soviet Team Chess Cup (1968, 1980). He also won the Estonian

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championship in 1968, and the Estonian blitz chess championship in 1972. He was the coach of

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from 1981 to 1988.

References

External links

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Andres Vooremaa
player profile at olimpbase.org (Soviet Team Chess Championship)

player profile at olimpbase.org (Soviet Team Chess Cup) {{DEFAULTSORT:Vooremaa, Andres 1944 births Living people Estonian chess players Soviet chess players Chess coaches Tallinn University of Technology alumni People from Rae Parish