Andres Vooremaa (born 19 July 1944 - 12 December 2022) was an

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

n chess player, who twice won the

Estonian Chess Championship The Estonian Chess Championship is played to determine the Estonian champion in chess. The first unofficial championship in Estonia was held in 1903 and was organized by a chess club from Tallinn (then Reval, Russian Empire). After World War I, ...

. He was awarded the Soviet Master title in 1969.

Biography

Vooremaa was born in

Rae Parish Rae Parish () is a rural municipality in northern Estonia. It is a part of Harju County. The municipality has a population of 23,145 (as of 31 December 2022) and covers an area of 206.7 km². The population density is . Settlements Administ ...

. In 1968 he graduated from

Tallinn Polytechnical Institute Established in 1918, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech; ) is the only technical university in Estonia. TalTech, in the capital city of Tallinn, is a university for engineering, business, public administration and maritime affairs. TalT ...

with a degree in industrial electronics.VOOREMAA, ANDRES
/ref> From 1971 to 1994 he worked as an engineer. In 1961 Andres Vooremaa won the Estonian Junior Chess Championship. He won the Tallinn Chess Championship in 1962, 1964 and 1970. In 1969 became a Soviet Master. In 1970 Vooremaa won the

Baltic Chess Championship The first Baltic Chess Congress took place in Riga, Latvia (then Russian Empire), in 1899. The winner was Robert Behting, the elder brother of Kārlis Bētiņš, who won a play-off game with Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz. The second Baltic Chess Cong ...

Pärnu Pärnu () is the fourth-largest city in Estonia. Situated in southwest Estonia, Pärnu is located south of the Estonian capital, Tallinn, and west of Estonia's second-largest city, Tartu. The city sits off the coast of Pärnu Bay, an inlet of ...

. He twice won the

in 1972 and 1973, finished second three times (1971, 1974, 1985) and finished third once in 1980.Eesti meistrid 1923—2005
He has played for Estonia five times in the Soviet Team Chess Championships (1963, 1972, 1975, 1979, 1981), and twice played for the Estonian team "Kalev" in the Soviet Team Chess Cup (1968, 1980). He also won the Estonian

correspondence chess Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system. Today it is usually played through a correspondence chess server, a public internet chess forum, or email. Less commo ...

championship in 1968, and the Estonian

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chess championship in 1972. He was the coach of Tatyana Fomina from 1981 to 1988.

References

External links

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Andres Vooremaa
player profile at olimpbase.org (Soviet Team Chess Championship)

player profile at olimpbase.org (Soviet Team Chess Cup) {{DEFAULTSORT:Vooremaa, Andres 1944 births Living people Estonian chess players Soviet chess players Chess coaches Tallinn University of Technology alumni People from Rae Parish