Lkhamsurengiin Myagmarsuren (; born February 17, 1938) is a Mongolian
chess
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master.
He won the West Asian zonal tournament in 1966. and tied for 19-20th place in the Interzonal tournament in Sousse, Tunisia 1967 (
Bent Larsen
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won).
In other international tournaments, he tied for 5-6th place at Dushanbe 1962 (
Leonid Shamkovich won); won 12th place at Havana 1967 (4th Armies-ch,
Vlastimil Hort
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won); took 16th place at
Tallinn
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1971 (
Paul Keres
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and
Mikhail Tal
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won);, and tied for 8-9th place in the 10th Rubinstein Memorial at Polanica Zdrój 1972 (
Jan Smejkal won).
Myagmarsuren was a four-time
Mongolian chess champion (1965, 1980, 1981, 1982). He played ten times for Mongolia in the
Chess Olympiads
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(1960–1974 and 1980–1982), where he won an individual gold medal at the fourth board (+14 –1 =5) at Leipzig 1960.
Myagmarsuren was awarded the
IM title in 1966. He still plays chess and his handle on the
Internet Chess Club
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is "Shatar".
References
External links
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Lhamsuren Myagmarsuren at 365Chess.com
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1938 births
Living people
Mongolian chess players
Chess International Masters
Chess Olympiad competitors
People from Khovd Province