1945 in chess

List of years in chess (table)

Events in chess in 1945

Chess events in brief
  • After 8 May 1945 – many chess masters from Baltic republics (Romanas Arlauskas, Leonids Dreibergs, Lucijs Endzelins, Miervaldis Jursevskis, Leho Laurine, Edmar Mednis, Karlis Ozols, Victor Palciauskas, Ortvin Sarapu, Povilas Tautvaišas, Povilas Vaitonis, Elmārs Zemgalis, etc.) and Ukraine (Fedor Bogatyrchuk, Stepan Popel, Myroslav Turiansky, etc.) fled to the West and most of them had become Displaced Persons in western zones in Germany.[1] At the end of World War II, joining the westward exodus in 1944/45, they escaped to the West, just before the advancing the Soviet forces arrived, to avoid deportation to Siberia and Far East, or any other persecutions the Soviet occupation (e.g., those of Vladimirs Petrovs).[2] Later, almost all of them left Europe for the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand.
  • 1–4 September 1945 - USA vs. USSR radio match.[3] The 10 leading masters of the United States played the 10 leading masters of the Soviet Union (except for Paul Keres) for chess supremacy. The match was played by radio and was a two-game head-to-head match. The USSR team won the match 15½–4½.
  • In 1945, Alan Turing (1912–1954), an English mathematician, logician, cryptographer, and computer pioneer, used chess-playing as an example of what a computer could do.[4]

Tournaments

Team matches
  • 17–18 July, Sofia: Sofia vs. Belgrade 7-9
  • 1–4 September, radio match: Soviet Union vs. United States 15½-4½ (8-2, 7½-2½)

(Botvinnik 11 Denker; Smyslov 11 Reshevsky; Boleslavsky ½1 Fine; Flohr 10 Horowitz; Kotov 11 Kashdan; Bondarevsky 0½ H.Steiner; Lilienthal ½½ Pinkus; Ragozin 11 Seidman; Makogonov 1½ Kupchik; Bronstein 11 Santasiere)[5]

Births

Deaths
  • 1945 - Arthur Wijnans, Dutch master, possibly killed in an Allied bombardment in Germany.
  • January 1945 - Wolfgang Weil, Austrian master, died in combat in Croatia.
  • 14 January 1945 - Arnold van den Hoek, Dutch master, killed in an Allied bombardment in a labor camp at Watenstedt, suburb of Brunswick, Germany.
  • 15 January 1945 - Kornél Havasi died in Budapest, Hungary.
  • 1 April 1945 - Zoltán von Balla died in a traffic accident with a Soviet tank in Budapest, Hungary.
  • 17 April 1945 - Klaus Junge, a lieutenant of the 12th SS Battalion, refusing to surrender, died in combat against Allied troops in the battle of Welle on the Lüneburger Heide, close to Hamburg.
  • ca. May 1945 - Heinz Nowarra possibly killed in an Allied bombardment in Berlin, Germany.
  • 25 June 1945 - Lazar Zalkind, Ukrainian chess problemist, died of a heart attack in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Krai, located in the Russian Far East.
  • 14 October 1945 - Győző Exner, Hungarian master, died in Hungary.
  • 20 October 1945 – Julius Dimer, German master, died in Germany.

References
  1. Mark Wyman, Dps: Europe's Displaced Persons, 1945–1951; reprinted 1998 Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-8542-8
  2. Andris Fride, Vladimirs Petrovs: A Chessplayer's Story from Greatness to the Gulags, 2004 Caissa Editions, Yorklyn, Delaware, USA. ISBN 0-939433-61-3
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-10-10. Retrieved 2008-10-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Computer Chess History by Bill Wall (April 6, 2008)". Archived from the original on October 21, 2009.
  5. OlimpBase :: Friendly matches
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