Tõnu Õim
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Tõnu Õim is an Estonia
n grandmaster of correspondence chess
, most famous for being the first man to have won the ICCF World Championship in correspondence chess twice, in 1983 and 1999.
Estonia
Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...
n grandmaster of correspondence chess
Correspondence chess
Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, usually through a correspondence chess server, through email or by the postal system; less common methods which have been employed include fax and homing pigeon...
, most famous for being the first man to have won the ICCF World Championship in correspondence chess twice, in 1983 and 1999.
Notable chess games
- Tonu Oim vs Grigory Konstantinovich Sanakoev, 50th World Champions Jubilee Tournament 2003, Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation, English Attack (B90), 1-0
- Tonu Oim vs Juan Sebastian Morgado, 14th CC World Ch Final 1994, Four Knights Game: Scotch Variation. Accepted (C47), 1-0