He was one of the world's leading chess players in the 1950s and 1960s; he excelled in playing blindfold chess. In 1950 he became an International Grand Master, in the same year he played the Candidates Tournament and finished the 5th. Three years later, in 1953, he got the 6th position. He won important tournaments as the ones in Mar del Plata (1961) and Havana (1962 and 1964), he also took part in several olympiads representing Argentina, their best result being the second place obtained in Helsinki (1952). He died in 1997 in Málaga, Spain.
MiguelNajdorf (born as Mieczysław Najdorf;1910 – 1997) was a Polish-Argentine chess player.
Najdorf's lively personality made him a great favorite among chess fans, helped no doubt by his aptitude for the witty saying, taking after his mentor Tartakower.
Najdorf's enthusiasm for, and virtuosity in conducting, the attack against the enemy King is well shown here, in a game praised by David Bronstein in his famous book on the tournament.
Najdorf (pronounced NIGH-dorf), who was born in Warsaw and began playing chess at age 12, traveled to Buenos Aires in 1939 with the Polish national team for a tournament.
Najdorf became an Argentine citizen in 1944 and went on to be a leading tournament contender after the end of the war, a status he held for more than 20 years.
Najdorf is said to have been one of the world's richest chess players, not from chess but from business, as a representative of insurance and finance companies.
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