Correspondence Chess World Championship

For sale is the book Fifth Correspondence Chess World Championship by Hans Jack Berliner,who was an American chess player and the World Correspondence Chess Champion from 1965 to 1968.Berliner was born on January 27, 1929, in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish family. His family moved to the United States in 1937 to escape Nazi persecution, settling in Washington, D.C. He learned chess at the age of 13, and it quickly became his main preoccupation.In 1949, Berliner became a master and won the District of Columbia Championship (the first of five wins in that tournament).He won the 1953 New York State Championship (the first non-New Yorker to do so) and the 1956 Eastern States Open. Berliner played for the U.S. Olympiad team in Helsinki 1952.He participated in the U.S. Chess Championship several times, with his best result being 5th place in 1957–58.Berliner’s most significant achievement was winning the 5th World Correspondence Chess Championship. He began the final game on April 1, 1965, and three years later, he emerged victorious with a score of 14/16 (twelve wins and four draws), a margin of victory three times greater than any other winner in these championships.During the championship, Berliner defeated Russian Correspondence Chess Grandmaster Yakov Estrin using the Two Knights Defense. This game remains one of the most famous and influential correspondence chess games in history."Fifth Correspondence Chess World Championship is the account of that victory as well as annotations of the games of the other contestants.

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