Happy 80th Birthday, Nikolay Minev

Bulgarian, now American IM Nikolay Minev turned 80 yesterday (sorry to be slightly late), and as someone who long enjoyed his column on tactics for (the sadly now-defunct) Inside Chess, I'm happy to wish him a happy birthday. Thanks to a short article on him in Chess Today, I learned that he was not only a very accomplished player and chess author, which was evident in any case, but that he was a medical doctor who in 1965 created the Bulgarian national toxicology lab in Sofia. Impresive!

Much more Minev, here - the site is most definitely worth a long browse.