Hillar Kärner

Hillar Kärner
Hillar Kärner
	Hillar Kärner (2013)
Country	Estonia; Soviet Union;
Born	27 July 1935; Tallinn, Estonia
Died	19 February 2017 (aged 81)
Title	International Master

Hillar Kärner (27 July 1935 – 19 February 2017) was an Estonian chess player, who seven times won the Estonian Chess Championship. International Master (1980).

Biography

Hillar Kärner was born on 27 July 1935 in Tallinn, Estonia. In 1953 Hillar Kärner graduated from the secondary school in Tallinn. In 1951 he won Estonian school children chess championship. Twice won Estonian rural sports associations chess championships (1965, 1966). In 1964 became a Soviet Master and in 1980 was fulfilled FIDE International Master norm in chess tournament in Bulgaria. In 1980 shared 1st place in Riga Cup.[1] In Estonian Chess Championships he has won 7 gold (1970, 1975, 1977, 1983–85, 1987), 3 silver (1968, 1979, 1988) and bronze (1978) medals.[2] Nine times Hillar Kärner played for Estonia in Soviet Team Chess Championships (1962-1967, 1972-1985) and once played for Estonian team «Jõud» in Soviet Team Chess Cup (1968). From 1973 to 1989 participated in the traditional international chess tournaments in Tallinn. The best place is shared 7th - 10th (1977).[3] Since 1960s Hillar Kärner worked in Tallinn's Excavator factory, later the rural project institute «EKE Projekt» and Paul Keres House of Chess. Hillar Kärner is the author of book - «Kuus aastakümmet Caissa lummuses» («Six decades under the spell of Caissa»), Published by Argo, Tallinn, 2012, (ISBN 9789949466580).[4]

Notable games

Hillar Karner vs Paul Keres Tallinn 1967 Victory over Estonia's all-times strongest chess player.
Mikhail Tal vs Hillar Karner Piarnu 1971 Victory over World ex-champion.
Hillar Karner vs Anatoly Karpov Moscow 1972 Victory over next World champion.
Hillar Karner vs Mikhail Tal Tallinn 1983 Another victory over World ex-champion.

gollark: I didn't. Depending on how it gets split into blocks or something it might work.

gollark: Based on something or other it runs on perceptual hashes which use a discrete cosine transform thingy, so it might be easiest to DCT the image data, fiddle with the parameters a bit, and convert it back.

gollark: I should really work on trying to evade meme repost detection again. I think I determined that rotation past about 15 degrees got around it but was very obvious, and adding small amounts of noise didn't.

gollark: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/549759333014044673/776531971193962526/unknown.png

gollark: I really should have a procedure for that. It would probably be doable easily enough using a cryptographic key saved somewhere, except there may be future discoveries affecting the security of that.

References

Cup of Riga - 3-28.10.1980
Eesti meistrid 1923—2005 Archived 2012-01-18 at the Wayback Machine
Memorial P.Keres in Tallinn March 1977
KÄRNER, HILLAR

External links

Hillar Kärner rating card at FIDE
Hillar Kärner player profile and games at Chessgames.com
Hillar Kärner player profile at 365chess.com
Hillar Kärner player profile at olimpbase.org (Soviet Team Chess Championship)
Hillar Kärner player profile at olimpbase.org (Soviet Team Chess Cup)

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[1] Cup of Riga - 3-28.10.1980

[2] Eesti meistrid 1923—2005 Archived 2012-01-18 at the Wayback Machine

[3] Memorial P.Keres in Tallinn March 1977

[4] KÄRNER, HILLAR