• Aivars Gipslis (February 8, 1937 – April 13, 2000) was a Latvian chess player, writer, editor and coach, who held the FIDE title of Grandmaster and the...
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    mayor of Riga Aivars Drupass (1945–1999), Latvian footballer Aivars Endziņš (born 1940), Latvian lawyer and politician Aivars Gipslis (1937–2000), Latvian...
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    federations from Spain to Latvia. In February 2012, Shirov won the Aivars Gipslis Memorial in Riga with 8 points out of 9. In June 2012 Shirov won the...
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    Sousse Interzonal (1967); King's Indian Defense, 1–0. Mecking vs. Aivars Gipslis, Sousse Interzonal (1967); Bogo-Indian Defense, 1–0. A game from Mecking's...
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  • – historian; under the alias of Ulafs Jāņsons, a social commentator Aivars Ģipslis (1937–2000) – chess player Moriss Halle (1923–2018) – linguist Filips...
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    Damljanović (YUG), 2525  Helgi Ólafsson (ISL), 2510  Igor Ivanov (CAN), 2505  Aivars Gipslis (URS), 2505  Attila Grószpéter (HUN), 2495  Bogdan Lalić (YUG), 2495...
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    early to mid-1950s, along with stars such as GM Mikhail Tal and GM Aivars Gipslis. Klovāns played for Latvia in two Chess Olympiads. In Manila 1992, at...
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  • (born 1968) Efim Geller (1925–1998) Edward Gerstenfeld (1915–1943) Aivars Gipslis (1937–2000) Anish Giri (born 1994) Evgeny Gleizerov (born 1963) Igor...
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  • Botvinnik, Mikhail; Cvetkovic, Srdan; Filip, Miroslav; Geller, Efim; Gipslis, Aivars; Gufeld, Eduard; Hort, Vlastimil; Kasparov, Garry; Korchnoi, Viktor;...
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    1966–67, with 12/20, and emerged from a three-way playoff, along with GM Aivars Gipslis, at Tallinn 1967, to the Interzonal, staged at Sousse, Tunisia, later...
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  • Italian writer. Frenchy Bordagaray, 90, American baseball player. Aivars Gipslis, 63, Latvian chess grandmaster. Inglis Gundry, 94, English composer...
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    Mecking (Brazil) 0 1 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 1 - 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 11 102.50 13  Aivars Gipslis (Soviet Union) 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 - ½ 0 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 10 93.75...
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    Timmerman Correspondence Grandmaster Ulf Andersson; Igor Bondarevsky; Aivars Gipslis; Curt Hansen; Jonny Hector; Jānis Klovāns; Jonathan Penrose; Olita Rause;...
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  • (England, 1987–2006) Karl Gilg (Czechoslovakia, Germany, 1901–1981) Aivars Gipslis (Latvia, 1937–2000) Anish Giri (Netherlands, born 1994) Matteo Gladig...
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    1 13 2 Efim Geller 1 - ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 12½ 3 Aivars Gipslis ½ ½ - ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 12 4 Viktor Korchnoi ½ ½ ½...
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    Morphy Defense, Archangelsk Variation (C78), 1-0 Aleksandar H Wohl vs Aivars Gipslis, It (open) 1996, English Opening: Symmetrical Variation. Hedgehog Defense...
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    schedule that resulted in his forfeiting a game with the Soviet player Aivars Gipslis. While accounts of subsequent events differ, it is clear that he was...
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  • Balabaev, GM 2003 Maigonis Avotiņš, GM 2015 Artis Gaujēns, GM 2004 Aivars Gipslis, GM 1995 Jānis Klovāns, GM 2001 Ingrīda Priedīte, LGM 1998 Olita Rause...
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    Arturs Neikšāns in Kaunas 2009 and 2nd behind Alexei Shirov in the Aivars Gipslis Memorial in Riga. In 2011, he won the Västerås Open with 7.5 points...
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  • (6th place) 1956 (2nd place) 1957 (4th place) 1958 (1st place, ahead Aivars Gipslis and Mikhail Tal) 1961 (4th place) 1962 (2nd place) 1963 (5th place)...
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    Riga, and won the tournament (but not the title) Match victory over Aivars Gipslis 3,5:2,5 (+1, =5, -0) Match victory over Pēteris Kampenuss 4:3 (+3, =2...
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  • December Daniel Yanofsky, Canada's first chess Grandmaster - March 5 Aivars Gipslis, Latvian Grandmaster and chess writer - April 13 Arthur Dake, American...
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  • Taimanov Mikhail Tal Paul Keres Leonid Stein Ratmir Kholmov Yuri Balashov Aivars Gipslis  Hungary Lajos Portisch Levente Lengyel László Szabó Gedeon Barcza László...
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  • champion Anda Šafranska. In the eighties made grandmasters Mikhail Tal and Aivars Gipslis chess school organization, which was a later chess grandmasters Aleksander...
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    events at Tbilisi (won by Mark Taimanov, 16½ points in 19 games), Minsk (Aivar Gipslis, 14½/19) and Ashkhabad (A. Miroshnichenko, 13½/19); semifinals at Leningrad...
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  • with Rome's chess team, Nicolas Engalicev losses two parties against Aivars Gipslis. At the beginning of 1958 Nicolas Engalicev moved to Canada: at first...
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    Also in 2009, he won the Saint Petersburg Chess Championship and the Aivars Gipslis Memorial. Matlakov won the Russian Junior (U20) Championship of 2011...
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  • 10/15. Fellow Soviet, Igor Zaitsev finishes second with 9½/15, while Aivars Gipslis, Tony Miles, Vladimir Savon nad Alexei Suetin all share third on 9/15...
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    12½ 5 Anatoly Karpov 0 ½ ½ ½ - ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 12 6 Aivars Gipslis 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ - ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 1 12 7 Vladimir Savon 0 ½...
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    11 10 Ratmir Kholmov ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 0 ½ - ½ 0 1 0 0 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 11 11 Aivars Gipslis 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ - 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 11 12 Leonid Shamkovich 1...
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