Fred Flatow Explained

Fred Flatow
Full Name:	Alfred Flatow
Country:	Australia
Birth Date:	28 August 1937
Birth Place:	Berlin
FIDE Master
Fideid:	3200272

Alfred (Fred) Flatow (born 28 August 1937 in Berlin) is an Australian chess FIDE Master^[1] and former Australian Chess Champion.^[2]

Flatow was born in Germany and emigrated to Australia. He was City of Sydney Champion eleven times (1963, 1967, 1968 (jointly), 1969, 1970, 1972, 1975 (jointly), 1981 (jointly), 1982, 1983, and 1985),^[3] and won the Australian Chess Championship in Sydney 1969/70.^[4] He also won the Doeberl Cup in Canberra three times (1970 (jointly), 1972, 1979).^[5]

He twice played for Australia in Chess Olympiads (Lugano 1968 and Skopje 1972).^[6]

External links

• • • "Grim Battles in Junior Chess Tourney", Sydney Morning Herald, 29 August 1950, p. 2

Notes and References

1. Web site: NSWCA Personalia. New South Wales Chess Association. 10 March 2013.
2. He is usually known as Fred Flatow. See for instance Sydney Morning Herald chess column of 8-Oct-2008
3. Web site: City of Sydney Champions. New South Wales Chess Association. 17 January 2015.
4. Web site: ACF records . Auschess.org.au . 2011-12-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120717080923/http://www.auschess.org.au/acfrec.htm . 17 July 2012 . dmy-all .
5. Web site: Doeberl Cup Previous Winners. www.doeberlcup.com.au. 10 March 2013.
6. Web site: Wojciech Bartelski . OlimpBase Men's Chess Olympiads Alfred Flatow . Olimpbase.org . 2011-12-16.