Tõnu Õim
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Template:Short description Template:More footnotes needed Template:Infobox chess player
Tõnu Õim (born 16 June 1941)[1] is an Estonian grandmaster of correspondence chess, most famous for being the first to have won the ICCF World Championship twice, in 1983 and 1999.[2] In 1991 he won the Axelson Memorial.[3] In Template:Chessgloss play, he was awarded the Soviet Master title in 1966.[4] He does not hold a FIDE title for over-the-board play; however, his peak FIDE rating of 2410 indicates a player of International Master strength.[5]
Notable games
- Tonu Oim vs. Grigory Konstantinovich Sanakoev, 50th World Champions Jubilee Tournament 2003, Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation, English Attack (B90), Template:ChessAN
- Tonu Oim vs. Juan Sebastian Morgado, 14th CC World Ch Final 1994, Four Knights Game: Scotch Variation. Accepted (C47), 1–0
References
Cited sources
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External links
- Template:ICCF
- Tonu Oim player profile and games at Chessgames.comTemplate:EditAtWikidataTemplate:WikidataCheck
- Tonu Iym rating card at FIDETemplate:EditAtWikidataTemplate:WikidataCheck
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ WC14/F, World Championship 14 Final, www.iccf.com
- ↑ A E AXELSON MEMORIAL, www.schack.se
- ↑ Anatoly Karpov (editor), Shakhmaty; Entsiklopedichesky Slovar, pp. 503-04, Moscow, 1990
- ↑ Iym, Tonu at olimpbase.org