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Leonid Stein

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Leonid Zakharovich Stein (Леонид Захарович Штейн; November 12, 1934 – July 4, 1973) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster from Ukraine. [1]

66 relations: Aivars Gipslis, Alekhine Memorial, Alexey Suetin, Anatoly Bannik, Anatoly Karpov, Anatoly Lein, Baltic Chess Championship, Bent Larsen, Boris Spassky, Borislav Ivkov, Candidates Tournament, Dražen Marović, European Team Chess Championship, Evgeni Vasiukov, Florin Gheorghiu, Grünfeld Defence, Hastings International Chess Congress, Igor Platonov, Jānis Kļaviņš, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Lajos Portisch, Leonid, List of chess players, List of Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR in chess, List of Jewish chess players, List of Jews born in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, List of mini chess tournaments, List of people from Ukraine, List of Russian chess players, List of strong chess tournaments, List of Ukrainian Jews, Lviv, Mijo Udovčić, Mikhail Tal, Nikolai Krogius, Olavo Yépez, Paul Keres, Paul Keres Memorial Tournament, Raúl Sanguineti, Rafael Vaganian, Ratmir Kholmov, Russia (USSR) vs Rest of the World, Salo Flohr, Sicilian Defence, Stein (surname), Tigran Petrosian, Ukrainian Chess Championship, University of Lviv, USSR Chess Championship, Vasily Smyslov, ..., Vlastimil Hort, Vyacheslav Osnos, Wade Defence, World Chess Championship 1963, World Chess Championship 1966, World Chess Championship 1969, Yuri Nikolaevsky, Yuri Sakharov, Zvonko Vranesic, 16th Chess Olympiad, 17th Chess Olympiad, 1962 in chess, 1970 in chess, 1971 in chess, 1972 in chess, 1973 in chess. Expand index (16 more) »

Aivars Gipslis

Aivars Gipslis (February 8, 1937 – April 13, 2000) was a Latvian chess FIDE Grandmaster and also an ICCF Grandmaster, and a chess writer and editor.

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Alekhine Memorial

The Alekhine Memorial was a recurring chess tournament, organized in different cities and irregular intervals, honoring the former world chess champion Alexander Alekhine.

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Alexey Suetin

Alexey (Aleksei) Stepanovich Suetin (Алексе́й Степа́нович Суэ́тин; November 16, 1926 in Kirovohrad – September 10, 2001 in Moscow) was a Russian International Grandmaster of chess and author.

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Anatoly Bannik

Anatoly Alexandrovich Bannik (December 1921, Kiev – 19 January 2013) was a Ukrainian Chess Master.

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Anatoly Karpov

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (Анато́лий Евге́ньевич Ка́рпов; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion.

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Anatoly Lein

Anatoly Yakovlevich Lein (Анатолий Яковлевич Лейн; March 28, 1931 – March 1, 2018) was a Soviet-born American chess Grandmaster.

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Baltic Chess Championship

The first Baltic Chess Congress took place in Riga, Latvia (then Russian Empire), in 1899.

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Bent Larsen

Jørgen Bent Larsen (4 March 19359 September 2010) was a Danish chess grandmaster and author.

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Boris Spassky

Boris Vasilievich Spassky (Бори́с Васи́льевич Спа́сский; born January 30, 1937) is a Russian chess grandmaster.

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Borislav Ivkov

Borislav Ivkov (born November 12, 1933 in Belgrade) is a Serbian chess Grandmaster.

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Candidates Tournament

The Candidates Tournament is a chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess' international governing body, since 1950, as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship.

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Dražen Marović

Dražen Marović (born January 14, 1938 in Split) is a Croatian (former Yugoslav) chess player, trainer, journalist, writer and broadcaster.

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European Team Chess Championship

The European Team Championship (often abbreviated in texts and games databases as ETC) is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of European nations whose chess federations are located in zones 1.1 to 1.9.

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Evgeni Vasiukov

Evgeni Andreyevich Vasiukov (Евгений Андреевич Васюко́в, March 5, 1933 – May 10, 2018) was a Russian chess grandmaster, one of the strongest players in the world during his peak.

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Florin Gheorghiu

Florin Gheorghiu (born 6 April 1944) is a Romanian chess player and university lecturer in foreign languages.

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Grünfeld Defence

The Grünfeld Defence (ECO codes D70–D99) is a chess opening characterised by the moves: Black offers White the possibility of cxd5, when after Nxd5 White further gets the opportunity to kick the Black Knight around with e4, leading to an imposing central pawn duo for White.

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Hastings International Chess Congress

The Hastings International Chess Congress is an annual chess tournament which takes place in Hastings, England, around the turn of the year.

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Igor Platonov

Igor Platonov (January 18, 1934 – November 13, 1994) was a Ukrainian–Soviet Grandmaster of chess (Soviet Union Grandmaster, Гроссмейстер СССР).

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Jānis Kļaviņš

Jānis Kļaviņš (April 27, 1933 in Rīga, Latvia – November 25, 2008 in Latvia) was a Latvian chess master who won the Latvian Chess Championship in 1952.

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Kamianets-Podilskyi

Kamianets-Podilskyi (Kamyanets-Podilsky, Kamieniec Podolski, Camenița, Каменец-Подольский, קאמענעץ־פאדאלסק) is a city on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine, to the north-east of Chernivtsi.

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Lajos Portisch

Lajos Portisch (born 4 April 1937) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, whose positional style earned him the nickname, the "Hungarian Botvinnik".

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Leonid

Leonid (Леони́д; Леоні́д; Lieanid) is a Slavic version of the given name Leonidas.

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List of chess players

This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia.

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List of Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR in chess

Honored Master of Sport was a Soviet state honour, introduced on 27 May 1934 by the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union.

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List of Jewish chess players

Jewish players and game theoreticians have long been involved in the game of chess and have significantly contributed to the development of chess, which has been described as the "Jewish National game".

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List of Jews born in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union

The following is a list of Jews born in the territory of the former Russian Empire.

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List of mini chess tournaments

This article lists some of the famous small chess tournaments in history.

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List of people from Ukraine

This is a list of individuals who were born and lived in territories currently in Ukraine, both ethnic Ukrainians and those of other ethnicities.

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List of Russian chess players

This list of Russian chess players lists people from Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Empire who are primarily known as chess players.

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List of strong chess tournaments

This article depicts many of the strongest international chess tournaments in history.

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List of Ukrainian Jews

Presented below are lists of famous or notable Ukrainian people of Jewish descent and other Jews born in the territory of present-day Ukraine.

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Lviv

Lviv (Львів; Львов; Lwów; Lemberg; Leopolis; see also other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine and the seventh-largest city in the country overall, with a population of around 728,350 as of 2016.

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Mijo Udovčić

Mijo Udovčić (September 11, 1920 - April 8, 1984) was a Yugoslavian chess player, who became the first Croatian Grandmaster in 1962.

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Mikhail Tal

Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal (Mihails Tāls; Михаил Нехемьевич Таль, Mikhail Nekhem'evich Tal,; sometimes transliterated Mihails Tals or Mihail Tal; 9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet Latvian chess Grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion (from 1960 to 1961).

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Nikolai Krogius

Nikolai Vladimirovich Krogius (first name sometimes written Nikolay) (born July 22, 1930 in Saratov) is a Russian Chess Grandmaster, International Arbiter (1985), psychologist, chess coach, chess administrator, and author.

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Olavo Yépez

Olavo Yépez Obando (born 20 August 1937, San Gabriel, Carchi) is an Ecuadorian chess master.

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Paul Keres

Paul Keres (January 7, 1916June 5, 1975) was an Estonian chess grandmaster and chess writer.

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Paul Keres Memorial Tournament

The Paul Keres Memorial Tournament is a chess tournament played in honour of chess grandmaster Paul Keres (1916–1975).

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Raúl Sanguineti

Raúl Carlos Sanguineti (Paraná, 2 February 1933 – Buenos Aires, 6 August 2000) was an Argentine chess Grandmaster.

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Rafael Vaganian

Rafael Vaganian (Ռաֆայել Արտյոմի Վահանյան, Rrafayel Artyomi Vahanyan, Рафаэль Артёмович Ваганян, Rafael Artemovich Vaganyan) is an Armenian chess grandmaster known for his sharp tactical style of play.

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Ratmir Kholmov

Ratmir Dmitrievich Kholmov (Russian: Ратмир Дмитриевич Холмов) (13 May 1925 in Shenkursk – 18 February 2006 in Moscow) was a Russian chess Grandmaster.

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Russia (USSR) vs Rest of the World

There have been two chess matches featuring USSR vs.

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Salo Flohr

Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr (November 21, 1908 – July 18, 1983) was a leading Czech chess grandmaster of the mid-20th century, who became a national hero in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s.

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Sicilian Defence

The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the following moves: The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4.

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Stein (surname)

Stein is a surname with different origins.

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Tigran Petrosian

Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (Тигра́н Варта́нович Петрося́н; Տիգրան Պետրոսյան; June 17, 1929 – August 13, 1984) was a Soviet Armenian Grandmaster, and World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969.

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Ukrainian Chess Championship

This is a list of all the winners of the Ukrainian Chess Championship, including those held when Ukraine was a Soviet republic and those held after Ukraine became independent.

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University of Lviv

The University of Lviv (Львівський університет, Uniwersytet Lwowski, Universität Lemberg, briefly known as the Theresianum in the early 19th-century), presently the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Львівський національний університет імені Івана Франка) is the oldest university foundation in Ukraine, dating from 1661 when the Polish King, John II Casimir, granted it its first royal charter.

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USSR Chess Championship

The USSR Chess Championship was played from 1921 to 1991.

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Vasily Smyslov

Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (Василий Васильевич Смыслов; 24 March 1921 – 27 March 2010) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, who was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958.

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Vlastimil Hort

Vlastimil Hort (born 12 January 1944) is a Czechoslovak-born German chess Grandmaster.

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Vyacheslav Osnos

Vyacheslav Vulfovich Osnos (Вячеслав Вульфович Оснос; 24 July 1935, Luga – 27 August 2009, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian chess player, trainer and author.

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Wade Defence

The Wade Defence is a chess opening characterised by the initial moves: The position can also arise from the move order 1.Nf3 d6 2.d4 Bg4.

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World Chess Championship 1963

At the World Chess Championship 1963 Tigran Petrosian narrowly qualified to challenge Mikhail Botvinnik for the World Chess Championship, and then won the match to become the ninth World Chess Champion.

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World Chess Championship 1966

The 1966 World Chess Championship was played between Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky in Moscow from April 9 to June 9, 1966.

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World Chess Championship 1969

The 1969 World Chess Championship was played between Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky in Moscow from April 14 to June 17, 1969.

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Yuri Nikolaevsky

Yuri V Nikolaevsky (14 February 1937 – 2004) was a Russian chess player.

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Yuri Sakharov

Yuri Nikolaevich Sakharov (18 September 1922 – 26 September 1981) was a Soviet chess master.

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Zvonko Vranesic

Zvonko Vranesic (born 4 October 1938) is a Croatian–Canadian International Master of chess, and an International Master of Correspondence Chess.

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16th Chess Olympiad

The 16th Chess Olympiad, organized by FIDE and comprising an open team tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between November 2 and November 25, 1964, in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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17th Chess Olympiad

The 17th Chess Olympiad, organized by FIDE and comprising an open team tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between October 23 and November 20, 1966, in Havana, Cuba.

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1962 in chess

Events in chess in 1962.

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1970 in chess

Events in chess in 1970;.

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1971 in chess

Events in chess in 1971;.

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1972 in chess

Events in chess in 1972;.

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1973 in chess

Events in chess in 1973.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Stein

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