Fred Flatow

Fred Flatow
Full nameAlfred Flatow
CountryAustralia
Born (1937-08-28) 28 August 1937 (age 87)
Berlin
TitleFIDE Master

Alfred (Fred) Flatow (born 28 August 1937 in Berlin)[1][2] is an Australian chess FIDE Master[3] and former Australian Chess Champion.[4]

Flatow was born in Germany and emigrated to Australia. He was City of Sydney Champion eleven times (1963, 1967, 1968 (jointly), 1969, 1970, 1972, 1975 (jointly), 1981 (jointly), 1982, 1983, and 1985),[5] and won the Australian Chess Championship in Sydney 1969/70.[2][6] He also won the Doeberl Cup in Canberra three times (1970 (jointly), 1972, 1979).[7]

He twice played for Australia in Chess Olympiads (Lugano 1968 and Skopje 1972).[8]

  1. ^ Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McFarland, p. 121, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6
  2. ^ a b Whyld, Ken (1986), Chess: The Records, Guinness Books, p. 139, ISBN 0-85112-455-0
  3. ^ "NSWCA Personalia". New South Wales Chess Association. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
  4. ^ He is usually known as Fred Flatow. See for instance Sydney Morning Herald chess column of 8-Oct-2008 Archived 14 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "City of Sydney Champions". New South Wales Chess Association. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  6. ^ "ACF records". Auschess.org.au. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
  7. ^ "Doeberl Cup Previous Winners". www.doeberlcup.com.au. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
  8. ^ Wojciech Bartelski. "OlimpBase Men's Chess Olympiads Alfred Flatow". Olimpbase.org. Retrieved 16 December 2011.