- Raaphi Persitz
Raaphi (Raaphy, Rafi, Raphael, Rafael) Joseph Arie Persitz, born
26 July 1934 inTel Aviv ,Israel , is an English–Israeli–Swiss chess player.Persitz was Israeli Junior Champion in 1951.
He studied at
Balliol College, Oxford , and represented Oxford University in the annual match against Cambridge University on three occasions (1954, 1955 and 1956). In 1954 he won his individual game in the Oxford-Cambridge match in the morning, playing very quickly in order to be able to travel by train toSwindon (some 75 miles away) in time to play top board for his county (Oxfordshire) against Gloucestershire in the afternoon. He was paired against a former British champion,Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander , and managed to win this game as well. ["British Chess Magazine ", May 1954, p. 150]Persitz played three times for England in the World Student Team Chess Championship.
* In 1954, at second board in 1st WST-ch in Oslo (+6 –0 =3);
* In 1956, at first board in 3rd WST-ch in Uppsala (+3 –1 =6);
* In 1957, at first board in 4th WST-ch in Reykjavik (+3 –6 =4).He won individual gold medal at Oslo 1954.Persitz moved from UK to Israel, and then to Switzerland. He played for Israel at fourth board in 14th Chess Olympiad at Leipzig 1960 (+6 –4 =2). [ [http://www.olimpbase.org OlimpBase :: the encyclopaedia of team chess ] ]
In 1955/56, he tied for 6-7th in Hastings (
Viktor Korchnoi andFriðrik Ólafsson won). In 1958, he played in Haifa / Tel Aviv (Samuel Reshevsky won). In 1961, he tied for 7-8th in Netanya (Moshe Czerniak ,Milan Matulović andPetar Trifunović won). [ [http://netanyachess.com/en_ev/ev_Netanya1961.htm International tournament, Netanya 1961 ] ] In 1968/69, he tied for 8-10th in Hastings (Vasily Smyslov andSvetozar Gligorić won).He is also a prolific and entertaining chess writer, contributing articles to a long-running column in "
British Chess Magazine " entitled "The Student's Corner".References
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