Toivo Salo

Finnish chess player

Toivo Salo
Salo (front left) vs. Mikhail Botvinnik (1954)
Country	Finland
Born	(1909-01-22)22 January 1909 Helsinki, Finland
Died	5 April 1981(1981-04-05) (aged 72) Helsinki, Finland

Toivo Salo (22 January 1909 – 5 April 1981) was a Finnish chess player, three-time Finnish Chess Championship winner (1938, 1949, 1956).

Biography

From the late 1930s to the early 1960s, Toivo Salo was one of Finland's leading chess players. In Finnish Chess Championships he has won three gold (1938, 1949, 1956), five silver (1936, 1937, 1950, 1953, 1957) and bronze (1952) medals.

Toivo Salo played for Finland in the Chess Olympiads:^[1]

In 1935, at reserve board in the 6th Chess Olympiad in Warsaw (+1, =3, -3),
In 1937, at fourth reserve board in the 7th Chess Olympiad in Stockholm (+4, =5, -5),
In 1952, at fourth board in the 10th Chess Olympiad in Helsinki (+2, =3, -4),
In 1954, at first board in the 11th Chess Olympiad in Amsterdam (+1, =3, -7),
In 1956, at second board in the 12th Chess Olympiad in Moscow (+2, =4, -8).

Toivo Salo played for Finland in the unofficial Chess Olympiad:^[2]

In 1936, at fourth board in the 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad in Munich (+5, =7, -5).

Toivo Salo played for Finland in the European Team Chess Championship preliminaries:^[3]

In 1961, at second board (+1, =2, -1).

References

^ "OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Toivo Salo". www.olimpbase.org.
^ "OlimpBase :: unofficial Chess Olympiads :: Toivo Salo". www.olimpbase.org.
^ "OlimpBase :: European Men's Team Chess Championship (preliminaries) :: Toivo Salo". www.olimpbase.org.