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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Estonian journalists, Estonian linguists, Estonian philosophers, Gero von Wilpert, Paul Keres, Lennart Meri, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Leo Kunnas, Tonu Trubetsky, Yuri Lotman, Jaan Kaplinski, Rein Taagepera, Harald Tammer, Alexander von Stael-Holstein, Alfred Kaarmann, Gustav Naan, Alexander Schmemann, Uku Masing, Priit Vesilind, Paul Ariste, Johannes Aavik, Bengt Gottfried Forselius, Raul Rebane, Kaarel Eenpalu, Silver Meikar, Oskar Kallas, Madis Koiv, Balthasar Russow, Fred Jussi, Mihkel Martna, Aleksandr Dulichenko, Edgar de Wahl, Leonid Stolovich, Carl Robert Jakobson, Maire Aunaste, Martti Soosaar, Vladimir Hutt, Mihhail Lotman, Eero Loone, Sulev Oll, Albert Kivikas, August Wilhelm Hupel, Jakob Hurt, Ulo Kaevats, Indrek Tarand, Fanny de Sivers, Evar Saar, Jutta Zilliacus, Otto Wilhelm Masing, Krista Kilvet, Peter Ernst Wilde, Andres Luure, Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Edgar V. Saks, Sulev Iva, Paul Saagpakk, Robert Vaidlo, Heinrich Rosenthal, Eduard Vilde, Karl Martin Sinijarv, Marianne Mikko, Mart Kadastik, Juhan Aare, Elmar Muuk, Allan Alakula, Gaute Kivistik, Kalmer Tennosaar, Kiur Aarma, Mart Ummelas, Lilli Suburg, Toivo Aare. Excerpt: Paul Keres (January 7, 1916 - June 5, 1975), was an Estonian chess grandmaster, and a renowned chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s. Keres narrowly missed a chance at a World Chess Championship match on five occasions. He won the 1938 AVRO tournament, which led to negotiations for a World Championship match against champion Alexander Alekhine, but the match never took place due to World War II. Then after the war he was runner-up in the Candidates' Tournament on four consecutive occasions. Due to these and other strong results, many chess historians consider Keres the strongest player never to become World ...
