Jüri Randviiru

Jüri Randviir (27 May 1927, Tallinn - 8 August 1996, Tallinn) was an Estonian chess player, chess composer of endgame studies and a journalist who won the Estonian Chess Championship four times.

Chess

  Jüri Randviir learned to play chess at age ten in Tartu, where he spent his school years. After World War II he was one of the leading chess players in Estonia. In Estonian Chess Championships he has won 4 gold (1947, 1949, 1950, 1954), silver (1957) and 2 bronze (1948, 1955) medals. In 1955 he was second in the traditional National Tournament in Pärnu (won Paul Keres) and became a Soviet Master. Five times Jüri Randviir played for Estonia in Soviet Team Chess Championships (1953-1960).

  Made a great contribution to the popularization of chess in Estonia. As a freelance journalist worked with major Estonian newspapers and made radio and television programs about chess. Author of 11 chess books, including books about seven international tournaments in Tallinn (1975-1987). Jüri Randviir was also a composer of almost 1000 chess problems and studies. Since 1956 Jüri Randviir has given a large number of simultaneous exhibitions in which played approximately 2756 games (+2327 -131 =298).

About his chess studies (89 works in the number):

Randviir built very complex chess studies and higher material consumption. His  endgame studies often have a very long solution process.

Source: Dutch Website ARVES.org

Others: 12 endgame studies with solution by Randviir are selected (selected by Mario Guido García) on Website ARVES.org

Die Schwalbe magazine wrote about him:

"The Estonian journalist Jüri Randviir (28 May 1927 - 8 August 1996) was one of Estonia's strongest chess players after the end of the Second World War and a four-time national champion. He worked professionally for various newspapers in his country and also produced a series of chess books and chess-related radio and television programmes. He was also very active as a problem composer, with around 1000 compositions to his name. We remember him in particular as a study composer, because in the last years of his life he regularly sent his assignments (endgame studies) to the "Die Schwalbe". Issue 310, August 2021