Aarne Ilmari Niemelä
CountryFinland
Born(1907-09-16)September 16, 1907
Miehikkälä, Finland
DiedNovember 12, 1975(1975-11-12) (aged 68)
Helsinki, Finland

Aarne Ilmari Niemelä (16 September 1907 – 12 November 1975) was a Finnish chess player, Finnish Chess Championship winner (1948).

Biography

From the late 1940s to the late 1960s, Aarne Ilmari Niemelä was one of Finland's leading chess players. In Finnish Chess Championships he has won gold (1948) and three bronze (1956, 1959, 1962) medals. Aarne Ilmari Niemelä two times participated in FIDE European Zonal tournaments (1957, 1961). In 1959, he participated in International Chess tournament in Riga where ranked 12th place.[1]

Aarne Ilmari Niemelä played for Finland in the Chess Olympiads:[2]

Aarne Ilmari Niemelä played for Finland in the European Team Chess Championship preliminaries:[3]

  • In 1961, at six board (+1, =2, -1).

References

  1. "Riga 1959". al20102007.narod.ru.
  2. "OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Ilmari Niemelä". www.olimpbase.org.
  3. "OlimpBase :: European Men's Team Chess Championship (preliminaries) :: Ilmari Niemelä". www.olimpbase.org.


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