Paul Keres

Paul Keres (born January 7, 1916, in Narva, Estonia; died June 5, 1975, in Helsinki, Finland) was an Estonian chess grandmaster and one of the strongest chess players of all time, apart from the World chess champions. Many claim him to be the strongest modern player (since the line of official World Champions started with Steinitz in 1886) never to play in a world championship match. He was dubbed "The Crown Prince of Chess".

External links

• Estonian banknotes
• The chess games of Paul Keres
• Remembering Paul Keres
• Biography
• http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kb1.txt and http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kb2.txt - "The Keres-Botvinnik case" by Taylor Kingston