Ilmar Raud
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Ilmar Raud (born April 1913, Viljandi, Estonia – died 13 July 1941, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Estonian chess master.
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Raud played many times in Estonians championships at Tallinn. In 1933, he tied for 3 rd-5 th at the 5 th EST–ch. The event was won by Gunnar Friedemann. In 1934, he won the 6th EST–ch. In 1936, he took 3rd at the 8th EST–ch. The event was won by Paul Felix Schmidt. In 1937, he took 7th at Parnu. The event was won by Schmidt. In 1937, he took 2nd, behind Schmidt, at the 9th EST–ch. In 1939, he won the 10th EST–ch.
Raud played for Estonia on fourth board at the 6th Olympiad at Warsaw 1935 (+4 –4 =7), on second board at unofficial Olympiad at Munich 1936 (+7 –8 =5), on second board at the 7th Olympiad at Stockholm (+7 –2 =8), on second board at the 8th Olympiad at Buenos Aires 1939 (+7 –5 =5). Estonian team (Paul Keres, Raud, Schmidt, Friedemann, Türn) took 3rd place, behind Germany, and Poland, in the last pre-war Chess Olympiad.
In September 1939, when WW II was broke out, Raud, along with many other participants of the 8th Chess Olympiad (Najdorf, Stahlberg, Frydman, Eliskases, Michel, Engels, Becker, Reinhardt, Pelikan, Skalička, Luckis, Feigins, Czerniak, Rauch, Winz, Gromer, Sulik, Seitz, de Ronde, Kleinstein, Sonja Graf, etc.) had decided to stay permanently in Argentina.
In 1941, Raud took 14th at Mar del Plata. He died in Argentina at the age of 28.
