Lucijs Endzelins
Lūcijs Endzelīns ( born May 21 1909 in Tartu, Estonia, † October 27, 1981 in Adelaide, Australia ) was a Latvian- Australian chess players.
Endzelīns took for Latvia in the countries Tournament Chess Olympics in 1936 (seventh board, result 10, -6, = 2) and on the official Chess Olympiads in Stockholm in 1937 (first reserve board, 6, -2, = 4) and Buenos Aires 1939 ( fourth board, 7, -5, = 3) in part.
Endzelīns emigrated to Australia, where he repeatedly won the South Australian Championships. He won the double annual Australian Championships from 1960 to 1961.
In correspondence chess Endzelīns was awarded in 1959 the Grand Master title. In the second Correspondence Chess World Championship 1956-1959 he reached the split second to third place with better fine- rating with Lothar Schmid. In the third Correspondence Chess World Championship 1959-1962 he was seventh and fifth in the Correspondence Chess World Championship 1965-1969 shared seventh to eighth with Julius Nielsen rating for the same fine.
Family
Endzelīns was the son of the linguist Jānis Endzelīns and husband of chess champion Milda Lauberte.