Dec-31-14
 | | alexmagnus: OK, translated this owith another Google tool, "slightly improved" by myself: <The Swedish chess world was hit by another severe loss, .... Bertil Malmgren, just 25 years of age and recently fully recovered from a long and severe disease, was taken by the rampagung flu> (Spanish flu? The time is correct and 50 million people fell to it, so I guess that is it - alexmagnus). <He was one of the few major Swedish chess talents, and even the Russian Grandmaster Aljechin predicted him a brillian chess career. He won> (? - not sure here, two words in the sentence are not Google-translatable) <the first Congress of the Swdish Chess Federation in 1917 and the Stockholm chess society anniversary tournament in 1916. 1918, which began so beatifully for him, was interrupted by an illness, and now he is gone forever. His quiet, reclusive being, paired with immediate, deep humor, and his solid and original games he won, gave him only friends, who shared his well-deserved success. Great is also longing for the deceased among Stockholm's chess friends.>. |