Olimpiu G. Urcan

Olimpiu G. Urcan (born 1977) is a Singapore-based historian, author, journalist, and chess player. [1] A medievalist scholar, he has contributed history-related articles to a number of chess magazines and has authored several biographies of forgotten chess masters. His research is mainly focused on American chess history, and he specializes in largely-forgotten chess experts, with emphasis on immigrants.

Between 2009 and 2015 Urcan ran a monthly chess history column at the ChessCafe.com website.[2] He is a regular contributor to Edward Winter's Chess Notes.

Books
  • Surviving Changi: E.E. Colman - A Chess Biography, Singapore Heritage Society, 2007. ISBN 978-981-05-7922-7
  • Adolf Albin in America: A European Chess Master's Sojourn, 1893-1895, McFarland, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7864-3010-9
  • Julius Finn: A Chess Master's Life In America, 1871-1931, McFarland, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7864-4283-6
  • Arthur Kaufmann: A Chess Biography, 1872-1938, McFarland, 2012 (with Peter Michael Braunwarth). ISBN 978-0-7864-6145-5
  • Singapore Chess: A History, 1945-1990, World Scientific, 2017 (with Shashi Jayakumar). ISBN 978-9814733229
  • W.H.K. Pollock: A Chess Biography with 523 Games, McFarland, 2017 (with John S. Hilbert). ISBN 978-0-7864-5868-4
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References
  1. FIDE Chess Profile
  2. "Past Pieces". ChessCafe.com. Archived from the original on 6 October 2010. Retrieved 11 September 2010.
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