Alexander Koblencs

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Alexander (Aleksandrs) Koblencs (Koblents, Koblentz, Koblenz, Koblenc) (* September 3 1916 in Riga, Latvia; December 9 1993 in Riga) was a Latvian chess master, trainer, and a chess writer.

As a player, Koblentz won the Latvian Championship four times (1941, 1945, 1946, 1949). He was awarded the title International Master by FIDE.

As a trainer, he started to work with young Mikhail Tal in 1949. Most prominently, he coached him in his World Chess Championship match against Mikhail Botvinnik. He also coached the team of the Soviet Union (e.g., 1956 in Moscow and 1960 in Leipzig).

Koblentz is best-known as a writer of chess books, many of which have been translated into foreign languages, in particular to German. For several years, he was the editor of the Latvian chess magazine Sahs and of the German chess magazine Schach-Journal.

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