Gunnar Uusi

chess player who won the Estonian Chess Championship

Master of Sport.^[3] After completing his studies in 1956 he returned to Estonia and worked in a Tartu agricultural machinery plant as an economist, later becoming a director (1966-1972). In the 1957 Estonian Chess Championship Uusi finished in third place.^[4] He won the Estonian championships six times, in 1958,^[5] 1959,^[6] 1963,^[7] 1966,^[8] 1979,^[9] and 1980.^[10] Three times he finished second, in 1960,^[11] 1961,^[12] and 1972.^[13] In 1973 he won the Pärnu summer chess tournaments.^[14] In his later years he worked at the Tartu chess club. One of Uusi's last tournaments was the International Paul Keres Memorial in 1981.^[15] Tartu now regularly hosts the Gunnar Uusi memorial tournament for young chess players.^[16]