Eero Böök

Eero Einar Böök ( born February 9, 1910 in Helsinki; † 7 January 1990) was a Finnish chess master.

Böök was over three decades ( from the 1930s to the 1960s ), until the release of Heikki Westerinen, as the leading champion player of Finland. He won six times (1931 /32, 1934/35, 1935/36, 1936/37, 1946/47, and 1963 /64), the Finnish Championship and took six times (1935, 1937, 1950, 1952, 1958 and 1960) for Finland participated in the Chess Olympiad.

His international career began with a tournament victory in 1935 in Helsinki ahead of Paul Keres. At the tournament Kemeri 1937, he was split in eleventh, but he defeated tournament champion Samuel Reshevsky. In Margate 1938 he shared fourth place and five (winner was Alexander Alekhine against Rudolf Spielmann), 1939 he was in fifth Kemeri, 1946 in Helsinki 4th - 6th He celebrated his biggest success at the tournament for the Scandinavian Championship 1947 in Helsinki, which was also a zone tournament of the FIDE: He won together with Swedish Gösta Stoltz ( the subsequent tie-break ended 4-4) and qualified for the Interzonal in Saltsjöbaden 1948 with whom he shared place 11-13 ( with Svetozar Gligorić and Vasja Pirc ). 1959 in Cracow, he was shared by third parties, 1960/61, in Stockholm fourth.

Böök was an engineer by profession and never played chess professionally. He is the author of several chess books. 1950 FIDE awarded him the title of International Master in 1984 they awarded him the honorary title of Grand Master.