Edmond Emile Lancel (3 July 1888 – 15 April 1959) was a Belgian

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player.

Biography

After graduation Edmond Lancel was

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. He worked as a chess journalist for the Belgian magazine ''La Nation belge''. In 1924, in

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Edmond Lancel played for Belgium in

1st unofficial Chess Olympiad The 1st Team Chess Tournament was held together with the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, 12–20 July 1924, at the Hotel Majestic. Fifty-four players representing 18 countries were split into nine preliminary groups of six. The winner of each round ...

. In February 1925, he founded the chess magazine ''L 'Echiquier'', published by Alexander Alekhine,

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and other prominent chess players of that time. The magazine existed until the end of the 1930s. Edmond Lancel was known as a chess tournament organizer and referee. In 1952 he became a

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(IA). Also Edmond Lancel participated in

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tournaments. He represented Belgium at the 1st World Correspondence Chess Olympiad (1946–1949).

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* 1888 births 1959 deaths Belgian chess players Chess Olympiad competitors Chess arbiters Belgian chess writers 20th-century chess players {{Belgium-chess-bio-stub