| César Boutteville | |
|---|---|
| Country |  France |
| Born | (1917-06-24)24 June 1917 Thin-Hao, French Indochina |
| Died | 21 May 2015(2015-05-21) (aged 97) Versailles, France |
| Peak rating | 2290 (July 1971) |
César Boutteville (24 June 1917 – 21 May 2015) was a French–Vietnamese chess master.
Biography & Career
The son of a French father and a Vietnamese mother, Cesar Boutteville was born in Thin-Hao (or Thịnh Hào), nowadays part of Hanoi's urban district Dong Da. He moved with his family to France in 1929. After settling in Boulogne-sur-Mer, the young César continued his education in Roubaix.
He was a six-time winner of both the French Chess Championship (1945, 1950, 1954, 1955, 1959, and 1967) and the Paris City Chess Championship (1944, 1945, 1946, 1952, 1961, and 1972).
Boutteville represented France seven times in Chess Olympiads from 1956 to 1968. He also played in friendly matches against Switzerland (1946), Australia (1946), Czechoslovakia (1947) and the Soviet Union (1954).
He took third at Paris 1962/63 (Albéric O'Kelly de Galway won), shared 10th at Bordeaux, and tied for eighth at Le Havre 1966 (Bent Larsen won).
When he was over 90 years old, after a long break, he returned to play for the Le Chesnay club.
He died in his home in Versailles on 21 May 2015.
References
- "Boutteville, Cesar". OlimpBase. Retrieved 2015-05-24.
- Boutteville
- Champ Masculin
- Champions de Paris
- OlimpBase :: the encyclopaedia of team chess
- Welcome to the Chessmetrics site Archived April 14, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- 1 tháng 9 năm 2010 Thống kê giải đấu Boutteville tham dự vào tháng 8 năm 2010
- "Décès de César Boutteville". Ligue Île-De-France des échecs. Retrieved 2015-05-24.
External links
- César Boutteville rating card at FIDE
- Cesar Boutteville player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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