Charles+Kalme

was a Latvian American electrical engineer, mathematician, [|International Master] of chess, Master of Contract Bridge, and early computer chess programmer. Born 1939 in [|Riga], he and what was left of his family fled [|Latvia] after [|World War II], lived for years in a [|Displaced Persons Camp] in [|Allied-occupied Germany] until he arrived in [|Philadelphia] in the [|United States] in 1951. He earned his master title in chess at age 15, was US Junior champion in 1955, US Intercollegiate champ in 1957, and drew in his game against [|Bobby Fischer] in the 1960 [|US championship].
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 * [[image:Kalme.JPG link="http://soloscacchi.altervista.org/?p=7288"]] ||~ || **Charles Ivars Kalme**, (Kārlis Ivars Kalme, November 15, 1939 – March 20, 2002)

In 1961, Kalme graduated with honors in electrical engineering from [|University of Pennsylvania], and received his Ph.D. degree in mathematics in 1967 at [|New York University] under thesis advisor Lipman Bers. He became a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley for two years, and at University of Southern California for four years. When [|Latvia] [|restored its independence] in 1991 from the [|Soviet Union], Kalme returned to Latvia, where he worked on a National Strategy for Bringing Computer Literacy to Latvian Schools. || toc =Computer Chess= In the early 70s at University of Southern California, Charles Kalme became team member and chess advisor of the USC CP team around Albert Zobrist and Frederic Roy Carlson.
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=Selected Publications=
 * Charles Kalme (**1967**). //Contributions to the Theory of Discontinuous Groups of Mobius Transformations//. Ph.D. thesis, [|New York University], advisor Lipman Bers
 * Charles Kalme (**1969**). //[|A note on the connectivity of components of Kleinian groups]//. [|Transactions of the American Mathematical Society], Vol. 137
 * Charles Kalme (**1970**). //[|Remarks on a paper by Lipman Bers]//. [|Annals of Mathematics], Second Series, Vol. 91, No. 3

=External Links=
 * [|Charles Kalme from Wikipedia]
 * [|The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Charles Kalme]
 * [|The chess games of Charles I. Kalme] from [|chessgames.com]
 * [|Una Riga di scacchi | SoloScacchi] by Martin Eden, March 24, 2010 (Italian)
 * [|The United States Chess Federation - Victory at Leningrad: The 50th Anniversary] by Eliot Hearst, October 20, 2010
 * [|Mathematicians and Chess | Charles Kalme] by [|David Joyner]
 * [|Office of Student Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania]

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