Lhamsuren Myagmarsuren

Lkhamsurengiin Myagmarsuren (Mongolian: Лхамсүрэнгийн Мягмарсүрэн; born February 17, 1938) is a Mongolian chess master.

Lhamsuren Myagmarsuren
CountryMongolia
Born (1938-02-17) 17 February 1938 (age 86)
Buyant sum, Khovd aimag, Mongolia
TitleInternational Master (2004)
Peak rating2380 (July 1971)

He won the West Asian zonal tournament in 1966.[1] and tied for 19-20th place in the Interzonal tournament in Sousse, Tunisia 1967 (Bent Larsen won).[2]

In other international tournaments, he tied for 5-6th place at Dushanbe 1962 (Leonid Shamkovich won);[3] won 12th place at Havana 1967 (4th Armies-ch, Vlastimil Hort won);[4] took 16th place at Tallinn 1971 (Paul Keres and Mikhail Tal won);,[5] and tied for 8-9th place in the 10th Rubinstein Memorial at Polanica Zdrój 1972 (Jan Smejkal won).

Myagmarsuren was a four-time Mongolian chess champion (1965, 1980, 1981, 1982).[6] He played ten times for Mongolia in the Chess Olympiads (1960–1974 and 1980–1982), where he won an individual gold medal at the fourth board ( 14 –1 =5) at Leipzig 1960.[7]

Myagmarsuren was awarded the IM title in 1966. He still plays chess and his handle on the Internet Chess Club is "Shatar".[8]

References

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  1. ^ Zonals in USSR, CIS and Asia Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ World Chess Championship : 1967-69 cycle : 1967 Sousse Interzonal
  3. ^ "Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos". Archived from the original on 2009-10-27.
  4. ^ Welcome to the Chessmetrics site Archived 2006-04-14 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Tallinn 1971
  6. ^ "Л.Мягмарсүрэн" [L. Myagmarsuren]. MongolChess. Archived from the original on 2016-08-22. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
  7. ^ OlimpBase :: the encyclopaedia of team chess
  8. ^ "Shatar". Internet Chess Club. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
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