César Boutteville
| César Boutteville | |
|---|---|
| Full name | César Boutteville |
| Country |
 France |
| Born |
24 June 1917 Thin-Hao, French Indochina |
| Died |
21 May 2015 (aged 97) Versailles, France |
| Peak rating | 2290[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]
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]
He was still playing chess in his nineties. He died in his home in Versailles on 21 May 2015.[7]
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.
- ↑ "Décès de César Boutteville". Ligue Île-De-France des échecs. Retrieved 2015-05-24.