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Line 4: ==Early life== Born '''Ortvin Sarapuu''' in [[Estonia]], he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940,<ref>'Ortvin Sarapu, ''Mr Chess': The Ortvin Sarapu Story'', New Zealand Chess Supplies Ltd, Wainuiomata, 1993, pp. 3-4.</ref> then defected to [[Finland]] from then Nazi-occupied Estonia in 1943, thence to Sweden.<ref name="Sarapu1993p.4">Sarapu 1993, p. 4.</ref> In 1945, just after [[World War II]] ended, Sarapu was invited to stay with a family friend in [[Denmark]].<ref name="Sarapu1993p.4"/> In 1946, he won the [[Copenhagen]] championship and the Copenhagen five-minute [[lightning chess]] championship.<ref name="Sarapu1993p.4"/> In 1948, he played twenty games of [[blindfold chess]] simultaneously in Denmark.<ref>Sarapu 1993, p. 172.</ref> Sarapu's first and last international tournament in Europe was at [[Oldenburg]] 1949.<ref>Sarapu 1993, p. 6.</ref> There, he defeated former [[world chess championship]] candidate [[Efim Bogoljubov]] with a sharp turnaround from a bad position.<ref>[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1269019 Bogolyubov-Sarapu, Oldenburg 1950]. ChessGames.com. Retrieved on 2009-05-25.</ref> Sarapu finished in fifth place with 11-6, a point behind tournament winners Bogolyubov and [[Elmārs Zemgalis]], and a half-point behind [[Nicolas Rossolimo]] and Herbert Heinicke.<ref>Sarapu 1993, p. 7.</ref>

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