Voldemārs Mežgailis

Voldemārs Mežgailis

Voldemārs Mežgailis (Voldemar Mezgailis or Mezhgailis) (born 22 April 1912, Lustuze) a Latvian chess master.

In 1934, he took 8th Latvian Chess Championship in Riga (Fricis Apšenieks and Vladimirs Petrovs won). [ [http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables5.htm GER-ch 2nd Aachen 1934 ] ] He twice represented Latvia in Chess Olympiads: in the 3rd unofficial Olympiad at Munich 1936 (at sixth board, +4 –5 =1), and in the 7th Olympiad at Stockholm 1937 (at third board, +2 –6 =7). [ [http://www.olimpbase.org OlimpBase :: the encyclopaedia of team chess ] ]

At the end of WW II, he won Latvian Chess Championship in June 1944. He won again the Latvian Championship in 1950. [http://www.latchess.lv/lv/2005/11/09/lv_218.html?template=23 Latvijas čempions] , [http://www.geocities.com/al2055perv/index.html RUSBASE (part IV) 1938-1960]

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