Yuri Averbakh
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Soviet chess grandmaster and preeminent endgame theorist
1922, Kaluga, Russia — 2022, Moscow, Russia
Russia / Soviet Union
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Yuri Averbakh was a Soviet grandmaster who became the world's foremost authority on chess endgames, editing a comprehensive multi-volume endgame encyclopedia, and was the oldest living grandmaster when he died at 100. He had a Jewish father (the family name deriving from Auerbach); his partial Jewish ancestry is documented.
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Soviet chess grandmaster and preeminent endgame theorist
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 64 strongest chess players (Warriors of the Mind, 1989)
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