Name Olimpiu Urcan | Role Author | |
Books Adolf Albin in America: A Europe, Surviving Changi: EE Colm, Julius Finn: A Chess Master's, Arthur Kaufmann: A Chess, William H K Pollock: A Chess | ||
Magnus Carlsen, swag of stadium !
Olimpiu G. Urcan (born 1977, Romania) is a Singapore-based chess player, historian, author and journalist. A medievalist scholar, he contributes history-related articles to world's top chess magazines (New In Chess, CHESS, and Chess Life) and has authored several biographies of forgotten chess masters. His research is largely focused on American chess history. In particular, he focused on little-remembered chess experts with a special focus on immigrants.
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A three-time winner of the Chess Journalists of America (CJA) Best Historical Article - Award, Urcan runs a monthly chess history column at the ChessCafe.com website.
He often contributes smaller items of historical interest to Edward Winter's Chess Notes. He lives in Singapore as an expatriate.