Thursday
Feb092012
Happy Birthday, Yuri Averbakh
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 10:49PM The world's oldest living grandmaster is 90 years old today. Yuri Averbakh can count among his many accomplishments having been a candidate in 1953 and nearly qualifying for that stage again in 1958, winning the USSR Championship in 1954 and tying for first (but coming in second after a playoff) in 1956. Nowadays he's best known for his classic series of endgame volumes, but his contributions to chess are both deep and wide.
More on Averbakh, and his birthday, on the ChessBase and ChessVibes websites.
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