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Charles I Kalme
Number of games in database: 19
Years covered: 1954 to 1995
Current FIDE rating: 2330
Overall record: +2 -8 =9 (34.2%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

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CHARLES I KALME
(born Nov-15-1939, died 2003) Latvia (citizen of United States of America)

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Charles Ivars Kalme was born in Riga, Latvia on November 15, 1939. At the conclusion of World War II, Kalme and what was left of his family fled Latvia, lived for years in a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany and finally arrived in Philadelphia in the United States in 1951.

Kalme won the U.S. Junior Chess Championship in both 1954 and 1955. In 1960, he played on the U.S. Team in the World Student Team Championship in Leningrad, USSR. The U.S. team won the World Championship, the only time the U.S. has ever won that event. Kalme won two gold medals.

Kalme also became a master of contract bridge. He had a Ph.D. degree in mathematics and became a professor of mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley. When the Republic of Latvia gained independence from Soviet rule, Kalme returned to his homeland. He passed away in 2003.


 page 1 of 1; 19 games  PGN Download 
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. M Bain vs C Kalme  1-040 1954 Hollywood opA07 King's Indian Attack
2. C Kalme vs Fischer 1-045 1957 Milwaukee CentralA49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4
3. Reshevsky vs C Kalme  1-034 1958 US ChampionshipE66 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Yugoslav Panno
4. C Kalme vs Mednis  ½-½43 1958 USA-chE60 King's Indian Defense
5. J Sherwin vs C Kalme  ½-½27 1958 US ChampionshipC84 Ruy Lopez, Closed
6. C Kalme vs R Weinstein  ½-½67 1958 US ChampionshipA49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4
7. C Kalme vs Lombardy  ½-½34 1958 US ChampionshipA04 Reti Opening
8. R Byrne vs C Kalme  ½-½30 1958 US ChampionshipE64 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Yugoslav System
9. Bisguier vs C Kalme  1-049 1958 US ChampionshipC49 Four Knights
10. Fischer vs C Kalme 1-057 1958 New York ch-USC98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin
11. D Byrne vs C Kalme  ½-½26 1958 US ChampionshipA15 English
12. C Kalme vs Larry Evans  ½-½51 1958 US ChampionshipA49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4
13. C Kalme vs Benko  ½-½50 1958 US ChampionshipD78 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O c6
14. Fischer vs C Kalme ½-½27 1960 New York ch-USC92 Ruy Lopez, Closed
15. Vukcevich vs C Kalme  1-032 1960 WchT U26 07thC34 King's Gambit Accepted
16. Bisguier vs C Kalme  1-033 1960 13th US ChampionshipC86 Ruy Lopez, Worrall Attack
17. C Kalme vs R Weinstein  1-071 1960 USA-chA07 King's Indian Attack
18. Vaganian vs C Kalme  1-031 1994 USAE66 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Yugoslav Panno
19. Kudrin vs C Kalme  1-042 1995 Philadelphia (USA)B08 Pirc, Classical
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Kibitzer's Corner
May-11-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  MUG: Not a great record - his only win here was against a 14-year-old boy named Robert Fischer.

Apparently gave up chess for mathematics in the early sixties.

May-11-05   gabrielr: On uscf.org:

Charles Kalme was born in Riga, Latvia, home of many fine chessplayers, including world champion Mikhail Tal. After the war his family fled to Germany, where they lived for several years in Displaced Persons Camps in the Allied zone.

“It was here that Charley learned chess, though he didn’t play seriously until his high school days in Philadelphia, where his family settled in 1951. He was the city’s leading player for several years. He is a former U.S. Junior and U.S. Intercollegiate titleholder, having won the former title twice, in 1954 and 1955, and the latter in 1957. He tied for first place in the North Central Open in 1957, in which he defeated Bobby Fischer, a feat which has not since been duplicated in an American chess tourney.” (CL, March 1961 by Charles Henin)

A math professor, he returned to action at the World Open a few years ago, still playing his favorite king’s fianchettoes, then emigrated to his native Latvia, where he died (details unknown).

The 1960 World Student Championship victory in Leningrad remains the only win ever by a U.S. team over the USSR. Kalme was avenging his father, a high-placed victim of Stalin’s conquest of Latvia, and scored 11˝ out of 13 on second board. (Bill Lombardy, on first, scored a sterling 12-1, defeating Boris Spassky. His other teammates were Ray Weinstein, Edmar Mednis, Anthony Saidy, and Eliot Hearst. The captain was USCF Pres. Jerry Spann.) — IM Anthony Saidy

Aug-26-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: 21.4% winning percentage. Ouch!
Nov-15-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: Happy Birthday to you!
Nov-15-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: Happy Birthday to you! =)
Aug-28-08   GrahamClayton: "CHESS" of 26 May 1956 featured a full-page article called "Young American shows genius for chess", which included:

"Philadelphia has a young player of 16 who is showing evety sign of developing into a world champion: Charles Kalme."

Sep-02-08   GrahamClayton: Source: CN 2630 Edward Winter, "A Chess Omnibus", Russell Enterprises, 2003
Nov-15-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: Happy Birthday Charles! =)
Sep-01-09   Dredge Rivers: Kalme!

Oh, oh!

You can Kalme, Kalme anytime!

Kalme!

Nov-15-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: Happy Birthday, Charles!
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