- Klaus Darga
Klaus Viktor Darga (born
24 February 1934 inBerlin ,Germany ) is a German Grandmasterchess player.In 1951 Darga became German Junior Champion after winning the national under-20 championship. He also proved his strength as a young chessplayer by sharing first place in the World Junior Championship of 1953, with
Oscar Panno ofArgentina . His best performance is held to be the 1967 Winnipeg tournament, where he also tied for first place withBent Larsen ofDenmark .He was awarded the title of
International Master in 1957, and Grandmaster in 1964. He played for Germany in tenChess Olympiads between 1954 and 1978, and also served as coach of the German national chess team. He was second reserve for the World team in the 1970 Match of the Century between theSoviet Union and the rest of the world, but did not play any actual games in the match.His favourite openings as White were the
English Opening and theRuy Lopez . As Black he often played theSicilian Defence .Notable chess games
* [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1128596 Klaus Darga vs Boris Spassky, 1964 Interzonal]
'Post-Chess' Career
Klaus retired as a chess professional and became a computer programmer for
IBM .References
* Biographical information on German Wikipedia [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Darga]
* Biographical information on Dutch Wikipedia [http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Darga]
* Edward R. Brace (1977), "An Illustrated Dictionary of Chess", London: Hamlyn Publishing.External links
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