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"In 1975, Paul Keres (1916-1975) died of a heart attack in Helsinki, Finland, while returning home to Estonia from the World Class Championship in Vancouver, B.C. He had just won the event despite a doctor’s orders not to play in the event due to the stress and his high blood pressure. His airplane had taken off from Helsinki to Tallinn when Keres had his heart attack. The aircraft turned around and landed back at Helsinki and Keres was rushed to the hospital and died."

Happy New Year.

<Vancouver 1975 was the name chosen for the first big class tournament in Canada. We figured that we would label the tournament the same way it would be in chess books. That has led to various chess authors inventing names for the event, such as Canadian Open, to the chagrin of those involved with the 1975 Canadian Open in Calgary.

Vancouver 1975 took place from May 17 to 25, ten rounds in nine days. Heading the five grandmasters was Paul Keres, frequently labeled the best player never to have won the World Championship. He was a contender from 1938 (when the tied for first in the AVRO tournament) to 1965 (when he lost a Candidates' match to Boris Spassky.

Keres had been retained by John Prentice, chess lover and Canada's FIDE representative, to give seminars to Canada's top players. That's what happened in Montreal and Toronto, but Vancouver already had a tournament lined up. Would he like to play? Against doctors' orders, Keres took part in Vancouver 1975. He placidly went through the event without apparent strain, racking up 8.5 points, 1.5 more than Elod Macskasy, John Watson, and GM Gyozo Forintos. Keres even made duplicate copies of his scoresheets, perhaps fearing for the permanence of the new-fangled no-carbon-required copies.>

Always good to have a first-hand account of events from the reliable Bill Wall. Those were different times, before people's heads operated by an electronic device.

Walter Browne was one of a kind. "King of the Swiss" played all sorts of games: https://vault.si.com/vault/1976/01/...

CGs does not have a player page for Frank Szarka.

Here's one of Mr. Wall's books: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show...

I was referring to this source:

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A very thorough and account of his death is given above by <Olavi> and <stone free or die>.

<By Robert D. McFadden

June 6, 1975

Paul Keres, the Estonian grandmaster who has ranked among the world's leading chess players for nearly 40 years, died of a heart attack yesterday in Helsinki, Finland, according to the Soviet press agency, Tass. He was 59 years old.

Though ill in recent years, Mr. Keres remained one of the most formidable and popular figures in international chess. He had in fact won first prize in two major international tournaments this year—one last February in Tallinn, the Estonian Soviet Republic where he made his home, and the other last month in Vancouver, B. C.

Mr. Keres never won the title of world chess champion, but he had been among the championship contenders since before World War II. Over the years, he won first place in more than a score of international tournaments.

In addition, he was champion of the Soviet Union three times —in 1947, 1950 and 1951—and held European championships three times and won four world chess Olympiads. In 1936, when he was 20, he shared first place in a tournament with Dr. Alexander Alekhine, the world champion at the time.

Known for Slashing Style

A tall, lithe man with elegant manners and an informal but unflappable bearing, Mr. Keres was regarded as one of the most spirited players in chess, and his competitiveness and well‐known sense of fairness made him one of the game's most popular figures.

His style was to attack, and his chief weapon was the combination—the creation of a series of moves to force an opponent's hand but yet erode his game, materially or positionally. He frequently eschewed methodical endings in favor of sharp tactics that produced exciting finishes.

In Tallinn last February, for example, he managed to win a pawn in a game with his old rival, Mark Taimanov of the Soviet Union. But instead of following the slow process of grinding his opponent down with the small advantage, he devised a tactical combination that ended the game with his personal trademark: the slashing Keres style.

Paul Petrovich Keres was born in Narva, Estonia, on Jan. 7, 1916, and learned to play chess at 4 by watching his father at the game board. He found little opportunity for tournament play as a boy, but took up correspondence chess.

He first played chess in public at 13, and his successes were rapid and brilliant. In 1933 and 1934, he won prizes in strong tournaments and, late in 1934, won the Estonian champnioship.International tournament play followed and his successes multiplied.

Mr. Keres studied mathematics but gave up a career in that field for chess. In addition to playing in four or five major tournaments every year, he wrote a number of books on chess openings and middlegame theory. His latest book, “Practical Chess Endings,” appeared last year.

He was married and the father of two children.>

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