Lev Polugaevsky was an International Grandmaster of chess and frequent contender for the world chess championship, although he never achieved that title. He was one of the strongest players from the world from the late 1960s until the early 1980s, as well as a distinguished author and opening theorist whose contributions in this field remain important to the present day. Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky was born in Mogilev in the then Soviet Union (now Mahilyow, Belarus). Wikipedia
One of the most complex variations in it bears his name, the Sicilian, Najdorf(B96) Polugaevsky variation: 1.e4 c5 2. www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=13741
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