Happy 90th birthday to World's Oldest Grandmaster - Yuri Averbakh
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Hello everyone,
Join us in wishing the oldest chess grandmaster of our times - Yuri Averbakh. He just celebrted his 90th birthday on February 8.
Hello everyone,
Join us in wishing the oldest chess grandmaster of our times - Yuri Averbakh. He just celebrted his 90th birthday on February 8.
According to the wikipedia listing, his first major success was first place in the Moscow Championship of 1949, ahead of players such as Andor Lilienthal, Yakov Estrin and Vladimir Simagin. He became an International Grandmaster in 1952. In 1954 he won the USSR Chess Championship ahead of players including Mark Taimanov, Viktor Korchnoi, Tigran Petrosian, Efim Geller and Salo Flohr. In the 1956 Championship he came equal first with Taimanov and Boris Spassky in the main event, finishing second after the playoff. Later Averbakh's daughter, Jane, would marry Taimanov. Averbakh's other major tournament victories included Vienna 1961 and Moscow 1962. He qualified for the 1953 Candidates' Tournament (the last stage to determine the challenger to the World Chess Champion), finishing joint tenth of the fifteen participants. He also qualified for the 1958 Interzonal at Portorož, by finishing in fourth place at the 1958 USSR Championship at Riga. At Portorož, he wound up in a tie for seventh through eleventh places, half a point short of advancing to the Candidates' Tournament.
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posted by Chess Blog Admin @ 10:38 AM
2 Comments:
At February 9, 2012 at 10:57 AM ,
alexis cochran, nz said...
Wow. congratulations to GM Averbakh.
At February 9, 2012 at 10:59 AM ,
Anonymous said...
Writings
Averbakh was also a major endgame study theorist. He has published more than 100 studies, many of which have made notable contributions to endgame theory. In 1956 he was given by FIDE the title of International Judge of Chess Compositions and in 1969 he became an International Arbiter.
Averbakh was also an important chess journalist and author. He edited the Soviet chess periodicals Shakhmaty v SSSR and Shakhmatny Bulletin. From 1956 to 1962 he edited (with Vitaly Chekhover and others) a four-volume anthology on the endgame, Shakhmatnye okonchaniya (revised in 1980-84 and translated as Comprehensive Chess Endings, five volumes).
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