Kenneth Kirby

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Kenneth Kirby
Country South Africa
Born(1915-11-01)1 November 1915
Oudtshoorn, South Africa
Diedunknown

Kenneth Kirby (1 November 1915 - unknown) was a South African chess player, twice South African Chess Championship winner (1959, 1963).

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From the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, Kirby was one of South Africa's leading chess players. He participated many times in the South African Chess Championship and twice won this tournament, in 1959 (shared with Wolfgang Heidenfeld) and 1963 (shared with Kees van der Meyden). Kirby also won the 6th (1955–1956) and 7th (1957–1958) South African Correspondence Chess Championships. In April 1956 in Durban, he won the first Natal Open Chess Championship with a full score of 8/8. [1] [2]

Kirby played for South Africa in the Chess Olympiads: [3]

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References

  1. KWA-ZULU NATAL CHESS CHAMPIONS
  2. Natal Open Durban, April 1956
  3. "Men's Chess Olympiads :: Kenneth Kirby". OlimpBase.