Roman Pelts
Roman Shlemovich Pelts (born August 11, 1937) is a Ukrainian-Canadian chess master, born in Odessa.[1]
In 1959, he founded a chess school in Odessa. Seven of his early students became grandmasters: Lev Alburt, Sam Palatnik, Vladimir Tukmakov, Valeri Beim, Konstantin Lerner, Leonid Yurtaev, and . He was the official trainer for the 1971 USSR student team on which Anatoly Karpov and Alexander Beliavsky played.[2]
At the beginning of his career, he took 15th at Minsk 1962 (Anatoly Bannik won), and played board one on the Soviet national team that won the 1964 Students' World Championship at Kraków, Poland.
Pelts came to Canada in 1978. After moving to Montreal, he established the first Canadian chess school in 1979. He later settled in Toronto and continued his school there. Pelts played for Canada in three Chess Olympiads: at Lucerne 1982 and Thessaloniki 1984 and 1988.[3]
In 1981 Pelts earned the title of FIDE Master.[1] He was inducted into the Canadian Chess Hall of Fame in 2001.[4]
Publications[]
- (in English) Roman Pelts & Lev Alburt, Comprehensive Chess Course - Volume I, 126 pages
- (in English) Roman Pelts & Lev Alburt, Comprehensive Chess Course - Volume II, 304 pages
- (in French) Roman Pelts & Lev Alburt, Cours complet d'échecs, Éditions Fédération québécoise des échecs (https://fqechecs.qc.ca/), Montréal, 1989, ISBN 2-9801168-2-3 (translation of the above 2 titles)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McFarland, p. 323, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6
- ^ <http://www.chessacademycanada.110mb.com/neweb/bio.html
- ^ OlimpBase :: the encyclopaedia of team chess
- ^ Canadian Chess
See also[]
- Chess Academy of Canada, Roman Pelts' Toronto-based chess school.
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