Raul Renter (1 August 1920 – 20 November 1992) was an Estonian economist and chess player, who twice won the

Estonian Chess Championship The Estonian Chess Championship is played to determine the Estonian champion in chess. The first unofficial championship in Estonia was held in 1903 and was organized by a chess club from Tallinn (then Reval, Russian Empire). After World War I, ...

Biography

In 1938 graduated from Tallinn French Lyceum. In 1948 graduated from Faculty of Economics in

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 administrati ...

. In 1964 Renter defended Candidate of Economic Sciences degree, and in 1975 he presented his doctoral dissertation in Economics. The main subject of his research was

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. From 1957 to 1965 worked as deputy chief of the Department of Economics at the Council of Ministers of the Estonian SSR. From 1965 to 1978 he was director of the laboratory in the

Estonian Academy of Sciences Founded in 1938, the Estonian Academy of Sciences ( et, Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia) is Estonia's national academy of science in Tallinn. As with other national academies, it is an independent group of well-known scientists whose stated aim is to ...

Institute of Economics. From 1978 to 1992 he was head of the Department in Institute of Economic Management. Since the late 1930s, Raul Renter was a participant of the chess competition in Estonia. In Estonian Chess Championships he has won 2 gold (1946, 1949), silver (1945) and 3 bronze (1943, 1947, 1952) medals. In 1950 he won the traditional National Tournament in

Pärnu Pärnu () is the fourth largest city in Estonia. Situated in southwest Estonia, Pärnu is located south of the Estonian capital, Tallinn, and west of Estonia's second largest city, Tartu. The city sits off the coast of Pärnu Bay, an inlet ...

.National Tournament - Parnu 1950
/ref> In 1955 he was a co-author of the chess

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in the Estonian language - «Maleõpik».

References

External links

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Raul Renter
player profile at OlimpBase.org (Soviet Team Chess Championship) {{DEFAULTSORT:Renter, Raul 1920 births 1992 deaths Estonian chess players Soviet chess players 20th-century Estonian economists Soviet economists Tallinn University of Technology alumni Sportspeople from Tallinn 20th-century chess players