Jaroslav Šajtar (December 3, 1921 – February 4, 2003) was a
Czech
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chess
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master and an honorary
grandmaster, born in
Ostrava
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.
He won at Kraków 1938, thrice placed joined 4th at
Choceň
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1942,
Prague
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1943 (
Alexander Alekhine
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won),
Zlín
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1943, and 4th at
Teplitz-Schönau
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1947. His peak years were about 1950, his best results being shared 2nd with
Isaac Boleslavsky
Isaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky (, ; 9 June 1919 – 15 February 1977) was a Soviet chess grandmaster and writer.
Early career
Born in Zolotonosha in Ukraine to Jewish parents, Boleslavsky taught himself chess at age nine. In 1933, he became sch ...
,
Luděk Pachman
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, and
Vasily Smyslov
Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (; 24 March 1921 – 27 March 2010) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who was the seventh World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. He was a Candidates Tournament, Candidate for the World Chess Championship on ...
at Warsaw 1947 and 3rd at
Bucharest
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1949. Šajtar played on the
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team against Great Britain in 1947 and in the
Helsinki 1952
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and
Amsterdam 1954 Olympiads.
Šajtar, Jaroslav
team chess record at olimpbase.org He finished 2nd in the 1952 Czechoslovak Championship.
In 1956 Šajtar was elected vice-president of FIDE
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(as president of Zone 3 astern Europe. He served as a FIDE official until 1974, devoting himself to the organisation of chess. He often served as arbiter at the Students Olympiads.
Šajtar earned the International Master
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title in 1950 and became an International Arbiter
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International Arbiter
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in 1955 with arbiting accomplishments including World Championship matches.
FIDE made him an Honorary Grandmaster in 1985.
Notable chess games
Jaroslav Sajtar vs Bogdan Sliwa, Warsaw 1947, Queen's Gambit Accepted (D23), 1-0
A nice, very short game: Undeveloped Black position is successfully attacked by the White light pieces.
Jaroslav Sajtar vs Ludek Pachman, UJCS-17. Kongress 1943, Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 (E47), 1-0
Another short game of two (then young) Czech masters demonstrates a typical exchange sacrifice for the sake of attack.
References
External links
*
Jaroslav Šajtar
player profile at Chessmetrics
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1921 births
2003 deaths
Czechoslovak chess players
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