César Boutteville | |
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Country | France |
Born | Thin-Hao, French Indochina | 24 June 1917
Died | 21 May 2015 Versailles, France | (aged 97)
Peak rating | 2290 (July 1971) [1] |
César Boutteville (24 June 1917 – 21 May 2015) was a French–Vietnamese chess master.
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. [2] 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) [3] and the Paris City Chess Championship (1944, 1945, 1946, 1952, 1961, and 1972). [4]
Boutteville represented France seven times in Chess Olympiads from 1956 to 1968. [5] 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). [6]
When he was over 90 years old, after a long break, he returned to play for the Le Chesnay club. [7]
He died in his home in Versailles on 21 May 2015. [8]