Lucijs Endzelins

Lūcijs (Lucius) Endzelīns (21 May 1909, Dorpat (Tartu), Estonia – 27 October 1981, Adelaide, Australia) was a Latvian-Australian chess master.

In 1932, Endzelins tied for 3rd-5th with Fricis Apšenieks and Movsas Feigins, behind Vladimirs Petrovs, and Teodors Bergs, at the Riga championship. He played for Latvia in the Chess Olympiads; at seventh board (+10 –6 =2) at unofficial Olympiad at Munich 1936, at first reserve board (+6 –2 =4) at Stockholm 1937, and at fourth board (+7 –5 =3) at Buenos Aires 1939.

At the end of World War II, Endzelins, along with many other Baltic players (Arlauskas, Dreibergs, Jursevskis, Mednis, Ozols, Sarapu, Tautvaišas, Vaitonis, Zemgalis, etc.), escaped to West just before the advancing the Soviet forces arrived, to avoid deportation to Siberia or any other persecutions of the Soviet occupation (e.g., those of Vladimirs Petrovs). In 1946, he played in Augsburg. The event was won by Wolfgang Unzicker. In 1947, he won, ahead of Elmars Zemgalis and Efim Bogoljubow, at the Mattison Memorial Tourney in Hanau, Germany. Lucius Endzelins migrated from Germany to Australia. He won the South Australian Championship eight times. [ [http://www.sachess.org/champions.html South Australian Champions] ] He won the Australian championship in 1961.

Awarded the Correspondence Grandmaster title in 1959. He tied for 2nd place, with Lothar Schmid, behind Viacheslav Ragozin, in the 2nd World Correspondence Championship, held from 1956 to 1959. He took 7th in the 3rd WCCh, held in 1959–1962, and tied for 7–8th in the 5th WCCh, held in 1965–1968.

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