A Russian, he was one of the world’s best players during the Cold War of the 1950s, joining other top competitors as the pride of the Soviet Union. By Dylan Loeb McClain Yuri Averbakh, a Russian chess ...
The world’s oldest grandmaster, Yuri Averbakh, passed away aged 100 on May 7. The venerable Russian had been a world title candidate, an aide to champions, and chief arbiter at top matches, as well as ...
The highly-acclaimed book – 'Game Changer’ - penned by Matthew Sadler and Natasha Regan has won the Averbakh-Boleslavsky Award for the best book of 2019. Some words about the other shortlisted titles: ...
Yuri Averbakh the Russian grandmaster who was among the world’s best players for a decade, died recently in Moscow at age 100, the first grandmaster to reach that age. Averbakh took part in the ...
As noted in a previous column, Yuri Averbakh has published a crisp and interesting biography of his long career as a leader in Soviet chess. For Americans and for the historical obsession with the ...
“Arthur W. Feuerstein of New York (Bronx), age 22; works for IBM on computers; member of U.S. Student Team in Iceland, 1957; U.S. Junior ‘Rapid Champion’, 1956; placed third in the Third Rosenwald ...
At 89, Yuri Averbakh is one of the oldest living Grandmasters and a symbol of moderate and studious chess players of world achievement. He has now published an autobiography, “Centre-Stage and Behind ...
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