Victor Buerger
{{Short description|Ukrainian-British chess player (1904–1996)}}
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{{Infobox chess biography
| country = England
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1904|1|29|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Mykolaiv, Russian Empire
| death_date = 1996
| death_place = UK
}}
Victor Buerger (Berger) (29 January 1904 – 1996) was a Ukrainian–British chess player.
Biography
Buerger was born in Mykolaiv, Ukraine (then Russian Empire){{citation | last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige | year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography | publisher=McFarland | isbn=0-7864-2353-6 | page=33}}[http://www.newinchess.com/Berger__Victor-ip-48883.html Victor Berger], profile on NICBase and became a member of London Chess Club.
=Tournament results=
In 1923, Buerger tied for 5–7th in Pardubice (Pardubitz). In 1924, he tied for 7–9th in London. In 1925–26, he tied for 5–6th in Hastings (Alekhine and Vidmar won). In 1926, he tied for 1st with Yates in London. In 1926–27, he tied for 7–8th in Hastings (Tartakower won).
In 1927, he tied for 9–11th in London (Nimzowitsch and Tartakower won), tied for 3rd–4th in Tunbridge Wells, and tied for 4–6th in Scarborough (Colle won). In 1927–28, he tied for 3rd–4th in Hastings (Tartakower won). In 1928, he won in Cheltenham, took 2nd in Tenby, and tied for 7–8th in Scarborough (Winter won). In 1928–29, he took 9th in Hastings. In 1929, he tied for 2nd–3rd in London. In 1930, he tied for 1st–3rd in London.http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf
Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01
In 1932, Buerger took 11th in London (Alekhine won). In 1937, he took 9th in an invitation-only Margate tournament that Fine and Keres won.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/index.htm |title=Roger Paige's Chess Site |access-date=1 July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070221010007/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/index.htm |archive-date=21 February 2007 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|title=Margate Tournament 1937|url=http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=79481}} He scored his most notable win at Margate, defeating Alexander Alekhine{{Cite web|url=http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1013265|title=Victor Berger vs Alexander Alekhine Margate (1937)}} in a game marred by multiple mutual blunders in time pressure.
References
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External links
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Category:British people of Ukrainian descent
Category:Ukrainian chess players
Category:British chess players
Category:20th-century British chess players
Category:Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United Kingdom
Category:Sportspeople from Mykolaiv
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