Viktor Ivanovich Sultanbeev ( niderl. Victor Soultanbeieff ; November 11, 1895 , Ekaterinoslav - February 9, 1972 , Liege ) - a Belgian chess player of Russian origin.
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Biography
In 1914, he won the Chess Championship of his hometown Yekaterinoslav. During the First World War, drafted into the Russian army. After the October Revolution and the civil war in 1920, together with the army of Wrangel, he was evacuated to Turkey. In 1921, he moved to permanent residence in Belgium, where he lived briefly in Brussels , and then moved to Liege, where he lived until the end of his life.
In 1923, for the first time, he took part in the Belgian Chess Championship , in which he subsequently became the winner five times (1932, 1934, 1943, 1957, 1961). The last time in the championship of Belgium in chess participated in 1969. In 1933, as part of the Belgian national team, he took part in the Chess Olympiad in Folkestone , where he played on the first board (+1, –7, = 6) [1] . He was a chess player of aggressive style. In 1964 he received the title of FIDE international arbiter.
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Links
- Party Viktor Sultanbeev in base (English)
- Personal card of Viktor Sultanbeev on the site 365chess.com (English)
- Speech by Viktor Sultanbeev at chess competitions