David Friedgood
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 July 1946 |
| Chess career | |
| Country |  England |
| Title | FIDE Master (1982) |
| FIDE rating | 2188 (September 2019) |
| Peak rating | 2335 (January 1980) |
David Friedgood (born 11 July 1946, in Cape Town) is a South African–British chess master.
He won South African Chess Championship in 1967, 1971 and 1973. He shared 7th at Caorle 1972 (zonal).[1]
Friedgood represented South Africa in Chess Olympiads at Tel Aviv 1964,[2] Lugano 1968,[3] Siegen 1970,[4] and Nice 1974.[5] He won an individual gold medal on fourth board at Tel Aviv 1964 (final D).[2]
He was a member of two Great Britain teams which won the World Chess Solving Championship, in 1986 with Graham Lee and Jonathan Mestel, and in 2007, with John Nunn and Jonathan Mestel.
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