Boris Rõtov (; 20 August 1937 – 10 September 1987) was a Russian-Estonian

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player who won the

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(1978).

Biography

Boris Rõtov was born and raised in Moscow, Russia, where he graduated secondary school. From 1964 he lived and worked in the Tallinn. In 1969 he won the

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in Riga. In the 1970s he moved into the top chess players rank in Estonia. He played three times for Estonia in the Soviet Team Chess Championships (1972, 1975, 1975). He also participated three times in the prestigious International Chess tournaments in Tallinn, where in 1973 he ranked 10th, in 1975 – 12th, and in 1979 – 15th. In 1978 Boris Rõtov won the Estonian Chess Championship. He was three times medalist in the Estonian Chess Championship: 2nd in 1975 and 1974 and 3rd in 1976. He participated in

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in 1971 and finished 3rd. In the last years of his life he worked as a coach in the

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Chess Club in Tallinn, the city where he died. His wife Merike (born 1936) and son Igor (born 1963) were also chess players, and his daughter Regina Narva (born 19 May 1970), née Rõtova, is a

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, and herself the mother of two Rõtov's granddaughters: Triin Narva (1994– ) and Mai Narva (1999– ). The last three all played in the Estonian Women's team at the 2014 Chess Olympiad.List of Women's Teams at 2014 Chess Olympiad
Chess24.com (18 March 2016). Retrieved on 2016-03-22.

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player profile at OlimpBase.org (Soviet Team Chess Championship) {{DEFAULTSORT:Rotov, Boris 1937 births 1987 deaths Chess players from Moscow Estonian chess players Soviet chess players Estonian people of Russian descent Russian emigrants to Estonia