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{{Short description|Estonian chess player}}
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{{Infobox chess player
| name = Tõnu Õim
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| country = [[Soviet Union]]<br />[[Estonia]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1941|6|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Raasiku]], Estonia<ref name="ESBL"/>
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| title = {{ubl|class=nowrap|[[ICCF Grandmaster]] (1981)}}
| ICCFworldchampion = 1977–1983 <br />1994–1999
| rating = [https://ratings.fide.com/profile/4500660/chart 2330] (July 2023)
| peakrating = [http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/player/Iym,%20Tonu.html 2410] (July 1994)
| ICCF_rating = [https://www.iccf.com/player?id=930017&tab=3 2581] (April 2005)
| ICCF_peakrating = 2617 (April 2000)
}}
'''Tõnu Õim''' (born 16 June 1941)<ref name="ESBL">{{cite web |title=ÕIM, TÕNU |url=http://www.esbl.ee/biograafia/Tõnu_Õim |publisher=ESBL |accessdate=19 February 2016}}</ref> is an [[Estonia]]n [[Grandmaster (chess)|grandmaster]] of [[correspondence chess]], most famous for being the first to have won the ICCF World Championship twice, in 1983 and 1999.<ref>[https://www.iccf.com/event?id=35602 WC14/F, World Championship 14 Final], www.iccf.com</ref> In 1991 he won the Axelson Memorial.<ref>[http://www.schack.se/SSKK/res/fspc_006.html A E AXELSON MEMORIAL], www.schack.se</ref> In {{chessgloss|over-the-board}} play, he was awarded the Soviet Master title in 1966.<ref name=Karpov>Anatoly Karpov (editor), [https://books.google.com/books?id=cdn_AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA503 ''Shakhmaty; Entsiklopedichesky Slovar''], pp. 503-04, Moscow, 1990</ref> He does not hold a [[FIDE]] title for over-the-board play; however, his peak FIDE rating of 2410 indicates a player of [[International Master]] strength.<ref name=olimpbase>[http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/player/Iym,%20Tonu.html Iym, Tonu at olimpbase.org]</ref>
==Notable games==
* [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1266962 Tonu Oim vs. Grigory Konstantinovich Sanakoev], 50th World Champions Jubilee Tournament 2003, [[Sicilian Defense]]: Najdorf Variation, English Attack (B90), {{chessAN|1–0}}
* [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1321743 Tonu Oim vs. Juan Sebastian Morgado], 14th CC World Ch Final 1994, [[Four Knights Game]]: Scotch Variation. Accepted (C47), 1–0
==References==
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===Cited sources===
*{{cite book |last1=Hooper |first1=David |authorlink1=David Vincent Hooper |last2=Whyld |first2=Kenneth |authorlink2=Kenneth Whyld |title=[[The Oxford Companion to Chess]] |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |edition=2nd |year=1996 |origyear=First pub. 1992 |page=277 |isbn=0-19-280049-3}}
==External links==
* {{ICCF|930017|Tõnu Õim}}
* {{Chessgames player|45476|Tonu Oim}}
* {{FIDE|4500660|Tonu Iym}}
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{{succession box
| before = [[Jørn Sloth]]
| title  = [[World Correspondence Chess Champion]]
| years  = 1977&ndash;1983
| after  = [[Victor Palciauskas]]
}}
{{succession box
| before = [[Mikhail Umansky]]
| title  = [[World Correspondence Chess Champion]]
| years  = 1994&ndash;1999
| after  = [[Gert Jan Timmerman]]
}}
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[[Category:1941 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Correspondence chess grandmasters]]
[[Category:World Correspondence Chess Champions]]
[[Category:Estonian chess players]]
[[Category:Soviet chess players]]
[[Category:People from Raasiku Parish]]
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