Oleg Nikolaev Neikirch (Neikirh, Nejkirch, Neykirch) ( bg, Олег Николаев Нейкирх) (8 March 1914,

Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million p ...

Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to the ...

- 26 August 1985,

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) was a Bulgarian

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 dist ...

master. He won seven times

Bulgarian Chess Championship The Bulgarian Chess Championship is an event inaugurated in 1933 to crown the best chess player in Bulgaria. The championship has been held on a nearly annual basis since, with only a few years missed. In recent years some of the very best Bulgaria ...

(in 1937, 1938, 1940 (jointly), 1943, 1948 (jointly), 1953 (jointly), and 1957). He represented Bulgaria in four

Chess Olympiad The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 an ...

s (1939, 1954, 1958, and 1960). * In 1939, at second board in

8th Chess Olympiad The 8th Chess Olympiad ( es, La 8a Olimpíada de ajedrez, link=no), organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE), comprised an open tournament, as well as a Women's World Championship contest. The main team event took place bet ...

in Buenos Aires (+6 –5 =4); * In 1954, at second board in

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in Amsterdam (+1 –2 =4); * In 1958, at first board in 13th Chess Olympiad in Munich (+1 –6 =6); * In 1960, at third board in 14th Chess Olympiad in Leipzig (+4 –4 =6). He tied for 2nd-4th at Sofia 1957 (zonal;

Miroslav Filip Miroslav Filip (27 October 1928 – 27 April 2009) was a Czech chess grandmaster. Filip was awarded the title of International Master in 1953, and the Grandmaster title in 1955. Filip represented Czechoslovakia in 12 consecutive Chess Olympia ...

won), and took 15th at Portorož 1958 (

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;

Mikhail Tal Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal; rus, Михаил Нехемьевич Таль, ''Mikhail Nekhem'yevich Tal' '', ; sometimes transliterated ''Mihails Tals'' or ''Mihail Tal'' (9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet-Latvian chess player ...

won). He was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1957.

References

1914 births 1985 deaths Bulgarian Jews Bulgarian chess players Jews from Georgia (country) Chess players from Georgia (country) Jewish chess players Chess International Masters Chess Olympiad competitors 20th-century chess players Soviet emigrants to Bulgaria {{Yugoslav Chess Championship