Victor ciocaltea wiki

To actually trying to answer your question i did some googling and other stuff and came up with two names that started relatively late playing chess and became "Grandmasters": Mikhail Chigorin and Joseph Henry Blackburne

Well i actually don`t know if they had the title "Grandmaster" due to the time they lived in(was "Grandmaster" a common name and title back then?

Anyway

Chigorin learned the the moves at the age of 16 by his teacher, did not take to the game before the age of 24, after finishing his studies. In just few years he was considered one of Russias top chess players...Read more on Wiki...really interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Chigorin

Blackburne learned the game by the age of 18, and quickly became a strong player. His proffesional career lasted for over 50 years, and according to wiki he was at one point the second most succesfull player. Read more on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Henry_Blackburne

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Victor Ciocâltea

Romanian chess grandmaster (1932–1983)

Victor Ciocâltea (January 16, 1932 – September 10, 1983) was a Romanian chess player. He was awarded the International Master title in 1957 and the International Grandmaster title in 1978. Among his notable games is the one at the 15th Chess Olympiad, held in Varna in 1962, where he defeated Bobby Fischer.

Biography

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Ciocâltea was Romanian Champion in 1952, 1959, 1961, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1975, and 1979. He played for Romania in eleven Chess Olympiads from 1956 to 1982.

He was a participant of four zonal FIDE tournaments (1954–1982). In 1954, he took 14th in Mariánské Lázně–Prague (Luděk Pachman won). In 1967, he took 15th in Halle (Lajos Portisch won). In 1972, he tied for 5–7th in Vrnjačka Banja. In 1982, he tied for 19–20th in Băile Herculane (Zoltán Ribli won).

In 1953, he tied for 11–12th in Bucharest (Alexander Tolush won). In 1954, he took 16th in Bucharest (Viktor Korchnoi won). In 1956, he took 3rd, behind Yuri Averbakh and Ratmir Kholmov, in Dresden. In 1956, he took 14th in Moscow (Alekhine Memorial; Mikhail Botvinnik won). In 1962, he took 9th in Havana (Capablanca Memorial; Miguel Najdorf won). In 1962, he tied for 1st–2nd in Sofia. In 1962, he tied for 3rd–4th in Belgrade (Svetozar Gligorić