Lhamsuren Myagmarsuren | |
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Country | Mongolia |
Born | Buyant sum, Khovd aimag, Mongolia | 17 February 1938
Title | International Master (2004) |
Peak rating | 2380 (July 1971) |
Lkhamsurengiin Myagmarsuren (Mongolian : Лхамсүрэнгийн Мягмарсүрэн; born February 17, 1938) is a Mongolian chess master.
He won the West Asian zonal tournament in 1966. [1] and tied for 19-20th place in the Interzonal tournament in Sousse, Tunisia 1967 (Bent Larsen won). [2]
In other international tournaments, he tied for 5-6th place at Dushanbe 1962 (Leonid Shamkovich won); [3] won 12th place at Havana 1967 (4th Armies-ch, Vlastimil Hort won); [4] took 16th place at Tallinn 1971 (Paul Keres and Mikhail Tal won);, [5] 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). [6] He played ten times for Mongolia in the Chess Olympiads (1960–1974 and 1980–1982), where he won an individual gold medal at the fourth board (+14 –1 =5) at Leipzig 1960. [7]
Myagmarsuren was awarded the IM title in 1966. He still plays chess and his handle on the Internet Chess Club is "Shatar". [8]
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