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Toivo Salo

Toivo Salo
Salo (front left) vs. Mikhail Botvinnik (1954)
CountryFinland
Born(1909-01-22)22 January 1909
Helsinki, Finland
Died5 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]

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

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

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

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