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Aug-02-09 | | WhiteRook48: IM a winner against three world champions |
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Aug-14-10
 | | Phony Benoni: <whiteshark: He wrote a small book <Meister der Turmendspiele (1890-1914)>*, Wiener Schacherlag, no year of publication. It contains 50 ♖ endgames, chronologically listed.
I wonder if there is a continuation?>
I would imagine a book on ♖ endgames would be more likely to have a prequel. |
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Apr-05-12 | | wordfunph: oldest participant 85-year-old IM Andreas Dueckstein (2221) scoring +1=8-0 in the European Seniors Team Championship in Rogaška Slatina. http://chess-results.com/tnr67565.a... |
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Aug-02-12 | | lentil: <IM a winner against three world champions> Were they WCs when he beat them? [I have a win against an IM. But he was only 10 years old at the time...] |
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Aug-02-12
 | | perfidious: <lentil> Botvinnik was the only reigning WC whom Dueckstein defeated, though this game, played that same year, was also a shocker (A Dueckstein vs Euwe, 1958). |
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Jul-13-15 | | waustad: Looking at his FIDE card he is still quite active. He's now playing in the European Senior Team Chess Championship in Vienna for the team Wien 75+. At least he didn't have to go far. |
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Jun-27-16 | | diagonal: <waustad> Dückstein, turning ninety next year, is the oldest player at the current World Team Championship 50+ & 65+ (2016) in Radebeul near Dresden, he is playing for the team of Vienna 1. |
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Aug-02-17 | | diagonal: The Austrian chess legend, IM Andreas Dückstein who has beaten Botvinnik as reigning World Champion, Euwe and Spassky, turns 90 today: Health and Happiness to you! Laudatio (ChessBase): https://en.chessbase.com/post/austr... |
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Oct-15-21
 | | WannaBe: He was never awarded GM title??? Wow. |
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Dec-28-23
 | | FSR: He's still with us at 96. https://www.chess.com/blog/simaginf... Last games were in 2016. https://ratings.fide.com/profile/16... |
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Jan-11-24
 | | Honza Cervenka: Iivo Nei is another IM, who beat Spassky, Petrosian and Tal, not to mention Bronstein. |
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Feb-16-24 | | philmsu: Andreas Dueckstein was awarded Honorary Grandmaster title
https://fide.com/news/2886 |
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Feb-22-24 | | ndg2: ^Beat me to this. Back in the day he surely had true GM strength (beat Euwe, Botwinnik and Spasski among others). He now must be the oldest living GM, no? |
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Mar-10-24
 | | alexmagnus: <Andreas Dueckstein was awarded Honorary Grandmaster title> Which makes him the olfest living GM. Two of these new honorary grandmasters are older than the previously oldest living GM Juraj Nikolac. The new top 3 is Dückstein, Nei, Nikolac. |
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Sep-04-24
 | | alexmagnus: And now he died.
The new top 3 oldest living GMs are Nei, Nikolac, Kraidman. |
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Jan-27-25
 | | FSR: FIDE awarded Iivo Nei the Honorary Grandmaster title in February 2024. Adding him to the list of oldest GMs compiled by ChessBase, and removing Dückstein, we get this list of the oldest GMs and their dates of birth: Iivo Nei (Estonia) October 31 1931
Juraj Nikolac (Croatia) 22 April 1932
Yair Kraidman (Israel) 1 November 1932
Nikola Padevski (Bulgaria) 29 May 1933
Klaus Darga (Germany) 24 February 1934
Friðrik Ólafsson (Iceland) 26 January 1935
Oscar Panno (Argentina) 17 March 1935
Boris Spassky (Russia) 30 January 1937
Enver Bukic (Slovenia) 12 February 1937
Lajos Portisch (Hungary) 4 April 1937
Dražen Marović (Croatia) 14 January 1938
Igor Saizev (Russia) 27 May 1938
Ivan Radulov (Bulgaria) 7 January 1939
Hans-Joachim Hecht (Germany) 29 January 1939
https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-o... |
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Jan-27-25
 | | beatgiant: <FSR>
<Igor Saizev> I assume this was a typo for Igor Zaitsev. His FIDE card gives his year of birth as 1937. What's your source for 1938?Searching the FIDE list for GMs born until 1939, one also finds Burkhard Malich (b. 1936), Nikola Spiridonov (b. 1938). |
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Jan-27-25
 | | beatgiant: <FSR> Following up, I see our profile for GM Spiridonov shows he died in 2021, but I see no information that GM Malich has died yet. |
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Jan-27-25
 | | FSR: <beatgiant: <FSR>
<Igor Saizev> I assume this was a typo for Igor Zaitsev. His FIDE card gives his year of birth as 1937. What's your source for 1938?> I'm just going by the ChessBase article I linked. I haven't checked any of the information. https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-o... |
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Jan-27-25
 | | beatgiant: <FSR> And further, I see most sources agree with 1938 for GM Zaitsev so I have to assume his FIDE card somehow got that wrong. |
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Jan-27-25
 | | Tabanus: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_... says transl.) <Different sources give different years of Zaitsev's birth (1937, 1938, 1939)>, landing on 27 May 1938. |
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Jan-27-25
 | | Tabanus: https://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/playe... |
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Jan-27-25
 | | beatgiant: <FSR>,<Tabanus>
Thanks. Then the corrections to the list are: (1) use standard spelling for GM Zaitsev, (2) add GM Malich to the list after GM Panno and before GM Spassky. Of these, only GM Hecht is still listed as active and is also very strong for his age (2290). Would there be interest for me to post a current version of one of my age-adjusted rating lists of the top oldest players? |
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Jan-27-25
 | | FSR: <beatgiant> I would be interested in seeing that. |
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Jan-27-25
 | | beatgiant: <FSR> In that case, and presuming the traditional generous forbearance of User: alexmagnus, I'll post a Feb. 2025 list in his user forum (the premier venue for such kind of specialized ranking lists). My methodology is described here: alexmagnus chessforum (kibitz #1286) I'll get to it soon after FIDE posts the Feb. ratings, assuming I don't get too distracted thinking about the wondervets theme song again 😜 |
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