Tags: Chess Player.
Aleksander Wojtkiewicz (Latvian: Aleksandrs Voitkevičs; January 15 1963 – July 14 2006) was a Polish chess grandmaster. He was born in Latvia. In his early teens he was already a strong player; a student of ex-world champion Mikhail Tal whom he assisted in the 1979 Interzonal tournament in Riga. He won the Latvian Chess Championship in 1981. His promising chess career was interrupted when he refused to join the Soviet Army.
