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Funky name, real matters
Funky name, real matters
nottop
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Yuri Sakkharov Has anybody heard of this person?
Is a "Yuri Sakharov memorial" tournament a major tournament?
I knew a politician/writer named Sakharov - but never a chessplayer.
Anybody know anything?
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thunker
♡ 24 ( +1 | -1 )
Chessbase has quite a few games by him. Looks like he played from the 40's to the 70's and was rated around 2200....
Google turned up this also... -> www.chessgames.com
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ccmcacollister
♡ 23 ( +1 | -1 )
Interesting ... He has 130 games on that site. And managed to score on some big guns. Draws with Polugaevsky And TAL. Also a late 1950's game with a "Kasparian" >!? Wasnt that Kasparov pre-Sovietized name? Did his dad play? hmmm
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fmgaijin
♡ 9 ( +1 | -1 )
9th World CCC = 9/10th. Ukrainian player; didn't get out of the USSR much but had an excellent rep as both OTB and CC player.
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thunker
♡ 51 ( +1 | -1 )
Craig Couldn't be Garry, cuz he wasn't born until '63. His mother's maiden name was Kasparian, later Kasparov, but his father's name was Vajnshtejn. After his dad died around 1970, he took the Soviet surname "Kasparov" which, as you pointed out, is the Russian version of the Armenian "Kasparian."
Don't know if his dad ever played chess or not, but he wouldn't have played under the name "Kasparian" as neither it or "Kasparov" was his surname.
-> en.wikipedia.org
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ccmcacollister
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Thanks Thunker! Aha, so the question becomes, did his MOM ever play Chess ! :)
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arichallan
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Kasparian I think this name would probably refer to Genrikh Kasparian. I remember that he was given in a book as having blundered in a game by either missing a mate or trying to move a pinned knight. A quick search reveals that he did in fact play a game against Sakharov, and was apparently famous for his endgame studies.
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