Emanoil-George Reicher (27 March 1930 – 3 October 2019), also known as Emanuel-George Reicher, was a

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chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

player. He held the FIDE titles of FIDE Master (FM) and

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Biography

From the late 1960s to the early 1970s, Emanoil-George Reicher was one of the leading Romanian chess players. He was a multiple participant in the

Romanian Chess Championship The Romanian Chess Championship became a yearly event in 1946, and was held irregularly earlier. A series of national eliminating contests are played to select a 20-player field for the men's final. The women's final consists of 16 players. Men's w ...

s, several major international chess tournaments and the World Senior Chess Championships. Emanoil-George Reicher played for Romania in the Chess Olympiads: * In 1970, at the second reserve board in the

19th Chess Olympiad The 19th Chess Olympiad (german: Die 19. Schacholympiade), comprising an open team tournament as well as the annual FIDE congress, took place between September 5–27, 1970, in Siegen, West Germany. The Soviet team with six Grandmasters, led by ...

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(+2, =3, -1). Emanoil-George Reicher played for Romania in the

European Team Chess Championship The European Team Championship (often abbreviated in texts and games databases as ''ETC'') is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of European nations whose chess federations are located in zones 1.1 to 1.9. This more ...

preliminaries: * In 1961, at the second board in the 2nd European Team Chess Championship preliminaries (+0, =2, -2), * In 1965, at the fifth board in the 3rd European Team Chess Championship preliminaries (+0, =4, -2).

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* * * 1930 births 2019 deaths Romanian chess players Chess FIDE Masters Chess Olympiad competitors Chess arbiters Chess players from Bucharest {{Romania-bio-stub