Malik Mir Sultan Khan (Chess Champion 1929-34
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Malik Mir Sultan Khan (1905 – April 25, 1966) was the strongest chess master of his time from Asia. This landowner from British India traveled with Colonel Nawab Sir Umar Hayat Khan ("Sir Umar"), his patron, to Britain, where he took the chess world by storm. In an international chess career of less than five years (1929–33), he won the British Championship three times in four tries (1929, 1932, 1933), and had tournament and match results that placed him among the top ten players in the world. Sir Umar then brought him back to his homeland, where he gave up chess and returned to his humble life. David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld call him "perhaps the greatest natural player of modern times".[1] Although he was one of the world's top players in the early 1930s, FIDE, the World Chess Federation, never awarded him any title (Grandmaster or International Master), as these titles did not exist during his career.
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