Thursday, May 26, 2016

El niño Arturito

http://www.abc.es/deportes/abci-muere-84-anos-arturo-pomar-nino-prodigio-ajedrez-espanol-201605262055_noticia.html
Arturo Pomar Salamanca, born on September 1, 1931, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, is dead today at 84 years old in a Barcelona’s hospital. A chess prodigy, he drew a game with his mentor Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine at the age of 13, becoming the youngest player ever to draw with a reigning World Chess Champion at a normal time control, a record which still stands.

Arturo Pomar Salamanca playing Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein at London in 1946. Photo: Ortiz/ABC.es.

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