Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Estonian Chess Players, Paul Keres, Estonian Chess Championship, Paul Keres Memorial Tournament, Valentina Golubenko, Vladas MikÄ—nas, Ortvin Sarapu, Paul Felix Schmidt, Baltic Chess Championship, Lionel Kieseritzky, Jaan Ehlvest, Mikhail Rytshagov, Bernhard Gregory, Lembit Oll, Ilmar Raud, Leho Laurine, Vidrik Rootare, Gunnar Friedemann, Johannes Türn, Andreas Ascharin, Tõnu Õim, Friedrich Amelung, Iivo Nei, Feliks Kibbermann, Maaja Ranniku, R.k. Kieseritzky, Salme Rootare, Paul Rinne, Olav Sepp, A. Feinstein. Excerpt: Paul Keres (January 7, 1916 June 5, 1975), was an Estonian chess grandmaster. Keres narrowly missed a chance at a World Chess Championship match on five occasions. He won the 1938 AVRO tournament, which led to negotiations for a World Championship match against Alexander Alekhine, but the match never took place due to World War II. Then after the war he was runner-up in the Candidates' Tournament on four consecutive occasions. Due to these and other strong results, many commentators consider Keres to be the strongest player never to become World Chess Champion. He was nicknamed "The Crown Prince of Chess". Paul Keres was born in Narva, Estonia. Keres first learned about chess from his father and older brother. With the scarcity of chess literature in his small town, he learned about chess notation from the chess puzzles in the daily newspaper, and compiled a handwritten collection of almost 1000 games. In his early days, he was known for a brilliant and sharp attacking style. He was a three-time Estonian schoolboy champion, in 1930, 1932, and 1933. His playing matured after playing correspondence chess extensively while in high school. From 1937 to 1941 he studied Mathematics at the University of Tartu, and, according to his