Leonids Dreibergs

Who was Leonids Dreibergs?

Leonīds Dreibergs was a Latvian–American chess master.

He took sixth place at Riga 1930, took ninth at Ķemeri 1939, and took fifth at Riga 1941.

At the end of World War II, joining the westward exodus in 1944/45, he — along with many other Baltic players, e.g. Romanas Arlauskas, Lucijs Endzelins, Miervaldis Jursevskis, Leho Laurine, Edmar Mednis, Karlis Ozols, Ortvin Sarapu, Povilas Tautvaišas, Povilas Vaitonis, Elmārs Zemgalis, etc., and Ukrainian players, e.g. Fedor Bohatirchuk, Stepan Popel, Myroslav Turiansky, etc. — moved to the West.

After the war, as a D.P. in West Germany, he tied for 12-13th at Augsburg 1946, and shared first with Zemgalis at Esslingen 1949. Then, he emigrated to the United States. Dreibergs won twice the Michigan Championship. He also played in Correspondence Chess League of America.