AJune 06 1975
Soviet Chess Ace Dies 06 Jun 1975, Fri The Vancouver Sun (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) Newspapers.com
PAUL KERES Soviet chess ace dies
HELSINKI (UP1)-Grandmaster Paul Keres, three time Soviet chess champion, died Thursday of a heart attack.
Keres, 59, arrived in Finland last Saturday from a trip to Canada. He was to travel to Estonia the next day, but one hour before his boat left, he suffered a heart attack.
Doctors said he appeared to be recovering when a second heart attack struck Thursday and killed him.
Keres first came to prominence in the 1935 Warsaw chess Olympiad and won tournaments the next two years in Austria and the Netherlands. He was a challenger for the world chess championship but did not compete because of the Second World War.
While in Canada, Keres won the $16,000 Vancouver 1975 chess tournament over a strong field. He was also well-known for his simultaneous exhibitions in Canada and the U.S.
