Leonid Stein
Leonid Stein · Sports
Three-time Soviet chess champion
1934, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine — 1973, Moscow, Russia
Soviet Union (Ukraine · Russia)
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Stein was a Soviet grandmaster who won three USSR Chess Championships (1963, 1965, 1966) and ranked among the world's top players until his sudden death at 38. He was born to a Jewish family in Ukrainian Kamianets-Podilskyi, and antisemitic quotas in Soviet chess are widely thought to have blocked his path to a world-title match.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 64 strongest chess players (Warriors of the Mind, 1989)
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Three-time Soviet chess champion
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 64 strongest chess players (Warriors of the Mind, 1989)
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