Viktor Korchnoi

Viktor Korchnoi

male, 78 years old
Soviet chess player, ussr, Refugee, Chess grandmaster, Swiss, chess player…From Leningrad, USSR, USSRChessChampionship, World Senior Chess Champion, USSR chess champion, World Chess Championship
Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й), born March 23, 1931, in Leningrad, USSR, is a professional Swiss chess player and currently th...
Alexander Beliavsky

Alexander Beliavsky

male, 55 years old
Soviet chess player, International Grandmaster, Elo rating, Fédération Internationale des Échecs, World Junior Chess Championship, USSRChessChampionship…chess player, Chess grandmaster, chess
Alexander Henrikhovich Beliavsky (born December 17, 1953) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. Beliavsky was born in Lviv. He currently lives in...
Mark Taimanov

Mark Taimanov

male, 83 years old
Soviet chess player, Steinway, International Grandmaster, USSRChessChampionship, Candidates Tournament, Nimzo-Indian Defence…World Chess Championship, World Championship, chess player, Chess grandmaster, chess
Mark Evgenievich Taimanov is a Jewish, leading Ukrainian chess player and concert pianist. He was awarded the International Grandmaster title in...
Yuri Averbakh

Yuri Averbakh

male, 87 years old
Soviet chess player, Kaluga, Russia, German, Portoroz, Jewish person, Vladimir Simagin…USSRChessChampionship, International Judge of Chess Compositions, chess, Chess grandmaster, World Chess Champion
Yuri Lvovich Averbakh (born February 8, 1922, in Kaluga, Russia) is a Russian chess player and author. His father was German Jewish, and his...
Isaac Boleslavsky

Isaac Boleslavsky

male, deceased (1977)
Soviet chess player, International Grandmaster, Chess grandmaster, grandmaster, ukrainian, minsk…chess player, USSRChessChampionship
Isaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky (June 9, 1919 Zolotonosha, Ukraine - February 15, 1977 Minsk) was a Ukrainian-Jewish chess Grandmaster.
Andor Lilienthal

Andor Lilienthal

male, 98 years old
Andor (Andre, Andrea) Arnoldovich Lilienthal, Euwe, Candidates Tournament, Chess Olympiad, grandmaster, capablanca…chess, World Chess Championship, Algebraic chess notation, USSRChessChampionship, Chess grandmaster
Andor (Andre, Andrea) Arnoldovich Lilienthal (born May 5 1911) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. In his long career, he played against ten world...
Igor Bondarevsky

Igor Bondarevsky

male, deceased (1979)
Soviet chess player, Saltsjöbaden, Interzonal, World Chess Championship, leningrad, International Grandmaster…chess, USSRChessChampionship, Chess grandmaster, chess player
Igor Zakharovich Bondarevsky (May 12, 1913, Rostov-on-the-Don, Russia - June 14, 1979, Piatigorsk) was a Soviet Russian chess Grandmaster in both...
Mikhail Gurevich

Mikhail Gurevich

male, 50 years old
Soviet chess player, reggio emilia, International Master, International Grandmaster, Interzonal, USSRChessChampionship…USSR champion, Ukrainian Chess Championship, chess player, Chess grandmaster, chess
Mikhail Naumovich Gurevich (born February 22, 1959, in Kharkov, USSR) is a Ukrainian chess player residing since 2005 in Turkey. He previously...
Leonid Yudasin

Leonid Yudasin

male, 50 years old
reggio emilia, calcutta, Illescas, pamplona, haifa, candidate…World Championship, Soviet chess player, Chess Olympiad, chess master, USSRChessChampionship
Leonid Grigoryevich Yudasin (born in Leningrad, August 8, 1959) is a prominent chess master and trainer, now living in New York City. Awarded the...
Boris Gulko

Boris Gulko

male, 62 years old
Qadafi, Soviet chess player, Elo rating, International Master, zionist, libya…Algebraic chess notation, USSRChessChampionship, USSR champion, chess player, U.S. Chess Championship
Boris Franzevich Gulko (b. February 9, 1947 in Erfurt, East Germany) is a U.S. International Grandmaster in chess. In Russian, his name is...