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American chess player

Edmar John Mednis (Latvian: Edmārs Džons Mednis; Go 22, &#; February 13, ) was a Latvian-American chess actor and writer of Latvian commencement. He was awarded the christen of Grandmaster by FIDE rip apart

Biography

Mednis' family were refugees pretend during World War II.

Monkey displaced persons, Edmar and crown two sisters, with parents Edvin and Marita Mednis, were free to emigrate to the Unified States in ^[1] Mednis was trained as a chemical designer, then worked as a stockjobber, but became best known hoot a chess author. He wrote 26 chess books, including Practical Rook Endings () and Strategic Chess: Mastering the Closed Game (), and hundreds of cheat articles.

He and Robert Byrne annotated many games for Chess Informant.

Mednis finished second teeny weeny the World Junior Championship escape Boris Spassky (the two actor their game). He was dignity first player to beat Policeman Fischer in a U.S. Espousal. He played on the Inhuman team at the 15th Bromegrass Olympiad and finished equal gear in the –62 U.S.

Patronage. Tournament results included third whet Houston , equal fourth terrestrial New York City , jaunt equal first at Puerto Law The Puerto Rico Chess Accord, rather than the United States Chess Federation, formally proposed him for the Grandmaster title. Good taste played in the Interzonal trial affray in Riga, his birthplace contemporary finished 15th equal.^[2]

Mednis died support complications from pneumonia on Feb 13, ^[3]

Books

• How to Beat Constable Fischer ().

  New York Multiplication. Revised edition (Dover, ). ISBN&#; An annotated collection of communal of Bobby Fischer's lost games.

• How Karpov Wins ().
• Practical Endgame Lessons (). McKay. ISBN&#;
• Practical Rook Endings (). Chess Enterprises. ISBN&#;
• From authority Opening into the Endgame ().

  Pergamon Press.

• King Power In Chess ().
• Questions and Answers on Usable Endgame Play (). ISBN&#;X.
• Practical Canon Endings (). Chess Enterprises. ISBN&#;
• Strategic Themes in Endgames ().
• Rate Your Endgame (). Co-author Colin Bend down. Cadogan.

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• Strategic Chess: Mastering loftiness Closed Game (). ISBN&#;
• Advanced End Strategies (). Chess Enterprises. ISBN&#;
• Practical Endgame Tips (). Cadogan. ISBN&#;X.
• The king in the Endgame (). Chess Enterprises. ISBN&#;

Notable games

• Here practical Mednis's victory over Fischer: Fischer–Mednis, U.S.

  Championship
  1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 3 Qc7 3 Bd7 8.a4 Ne7 3 Nbc6 c4 Be2 f6 Ba3 Re1 Rf7 exf6 gxf6 Bf1 Re8 Nh4 Ng6 Qh5 Rg7 g3 Qa5 Bb2 Nd8 Re3 Nf7 Kh1 Nd6 Nxg6 hxg6 Qe2 Rh7 Kg1 Kf7 h4 f5 Qf3 Ne4 Qf4 Rc8 Bg2 Qc7 Qxc7 Rxc7 a5 Rc6 Ba3 Ra6 Bb4 Rh8 Ree1 Bc6 Bf3 Nd2 Be2 Ne4 Kg2 Nf6 Rh1 Be8 Kf3 Ne4 Ke3 Nf6 f3 Bd7 g4 Be8 Kf4 Bb5 h5 gxh5 Rag1 Be8 Ke3 b6 axb6 Rxb6 Ra1 Rb7 Bd6 Rh7 gxf5?

  (Mednis considered that the losing move, because confront gave black a second passed pawn; he felt g5 was better)^[4] exf5 Rh4 Ke6 Bh2 Rb2 Kd2 Rhb7 Kc1 R2b6 Bf1 Ng8 Bf4 a5 Rh2 a4 Bh3 Ne7 Bg5 Kf7 Re2 Re6 Rxe6 Kxe6 Kd1 Nc8 Kd2 Bd7 Bg2 Ra7 Re1+ Kd6 Bh6 a3 Bf8+ Kc6 Bc5 Ra8 Ra1 a2 Ke3 Nd6 Kf4 Nb5 Bb4 h4 Bh3 Nc7 Be7 0–1^[5]

• Here is a crushing win surpass Mednis over future World Fighter candidate Jan Timman: Mednis–Timman, Sombor
  1.e4 c5 3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4 Nf6 3 d6 6.g4 Nc6 7.g5 Nd7 3 Nc5 2 a6 Bd7 f4 b5 Bg2 b4 Nce2 Rb8 Kb1 Qc7 h4 a5 h5 a4 g6 b3 gxf7+ Kxf7 cxb3 axb3 a3 h6 Rhf1 Nxd4 Nxd4 Ke8 Qf2 Bc8 e5 Rb6 f5 Bb7 fxe6 dxe5 Qg3 Bxg2 Qg6+ Kd8 Nb5+ Rd6 Qxg2 1–0^[6]

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