Sürengiin Möömöö
Sürengiin Möömöö () was a Mongolian linguist and chess player. He was born in 1930 in Khyargas, Uvs, and died on 7 July 2021 due to illness. Linguistics career. Sürengiin Möömöö graduated from the National University of Mongolia in 1957 with a degree in Mongolian language, literature and linguistics. He then began a teaching career at that university which lasted over 50 years, becoming an associate professor in 1982 and a full professor in 1995. He obtained a Candidate of Sciences degree for his pioneering studies of Mongolian phonetics at Leningrad State University in 1970, and a Doctor of  Science degree from the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1984 for his dissertation on Mongolian dialectology. He taught at the University of Warsaw from 1969 to 1973 and was a visiting professor at Osaka University from 1978 to 1980. In 1982, Möömöö co-authored a book on Mongolian dialects with his student Yümjiriin Mönkh-Amgalan. He edited Damdinsüren and Osor's 1983 "Mongolian Orthographic Dictionary" (), the standard source for Mongolian Cyrillic orthography until 2018. He was a member of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, and was awarded the Order of the Polar Star in 2003, and the title of Honoured  Teacher of Mongolia by President Nambaryn Enkhbayar in 2008. Chess career. Sürengiin Möömöö competed in several editions of the Mongolian Chess Championship. He finished second at the 1955 championship, won it in 1958, and finished third in 1961. In the first international chess tournament held in Mongolia (Ulan Bator 1956, won by Heinz Liebert), Möömöö finished in seventh place with 9/15, making the best score among the Mongolian participants. He tied for third with Andor Lilienthal in a tournament held in Tashkent in 1959, which was won by Alexander Grushevsky. In 1960, he played a match for the West Asian  subzonal (a qualifying stage for the 1963 World Chess Championship) held in Madras, losing 1–3 to Manuel Aaron. Möömöö played for Mongolia in three Chess Olympiads: Möömöö also represented Mongolia three times in the World Student Team Chess Championships: Möömöö competed in the inaugural World Senior Chess Championship held in Bad Wörishofen in 1991, where he scored 6.5/11 and finished in a tie for 23rd place.