Lev Polugaevsky
Lev Polugaevsky · Sports
Soviet chess grandmaster, world-title candidate and opening theorist
1934, Mogilev, Belarus (then USSR) — 1995, Paris, France
Soviet Union · France
Lev Polugaevsky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Sports — Soviet chess grandmaster, world-title candidate and opening theorist
Polugaevsky was a Soviet chess grandmaster, repeatedly a candidate for the world title and one of the strongest players of the 1960s–1970s. He was a renowned opening theorist; the sharp 'Polugaevsky Variation' of the Sicilian Najdorf bears his name. He was Jewish, born into a Jewish family in the Soviet Union, and spent his final years in France.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 64 strongest chess players (Warriors of the Mind, 1989)
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Soviet chess grandmaster, world-title candidate and opening theorist
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 64 strongest chess players (Warriors of the Mind, 1989)
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