Jiří Pelikán (chess player)

Jorge Pelikan ( born April 23 1906 Jiri Pelikan, † June 1984) was an Argentine chess grandmaster of Czech descent.

Life

Pelican played with Czechoslovakia at the Chess Olympiads in 1935 in Warsaw, in 1937 in Stockholm and 1939 in Buenos Aires. In the 1930s, he participated in numerous tournaments in Europe in part, inter alia, he managed a draw against the world champion Alexander Alekhine in Poděbrady 1936. The beginning of World War II during the Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires in 1939 meant that Pelican no longer returned to Europe but took the Argentine citizenship. He was a resident of the city Chacabuco in Buenos Aires, regularly participated in Argentine championships and soon became one of the leading Argentine chess masters. Its very risk-averse, a double-edged style prevented, however, that he ever came in higher price ranks in national championships. He won the first Correspondence Chess Championship of Argentina. 1965 FIDE awarded him the title of International Master.

Pelican examined with other Argentine masters in the 1950s, a play in the Sicilian Defence: 1.e2 -e4 c7 - c5 2.Sg1 -f3 c6 3.d2 -d4 - Sb8 c5xd4 4.Sf3xd4 Ng8 - f6 5.Sb1 - c3 e7 - e5 b5 6.Sd4 - d7 - d6. This variant was initially the name Pelican variant (also Pilnik system, according to Herman Pilnik, which it established in the 1950s, world-class ), became internationally popular but later by the analytical work of Soviet players in the 1970s as Sveshnikov Variation.

  • Chess players
  • Chess players (Czechoslovakia)
  • Chess Players ( Argentina)
  • Czech
  • Argentine
  • Born in 1906
  • Died in 1984
  • Man
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