Mark Taimanov
Mark Taimanov · Sports
Pianist and chess grandmaster
1926, Kharkiv, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) — 2016, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Ukraine · Russia/Soviet Union
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Mark Taimanov was a rare figure who reached the top rank in two arts at once: a chess grandmaster and world-championship candidate, and a concert pianist who toured internationally in a duo with his wife. He was born to a Jewish family in Kharkiv and is Jewish. He is remembered in chess for the Taimanov Variation of the Sicilian Defence.
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Pianist and chess grandmaster
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music
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