Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky (Russian: Лев Абрамович Полугаевский, IPA: [pəlʊɡɐˈjefskʲɪj]; 20 November 1934 – 30 August 1995) was a Soviet chess player....

players followed his example." Polugaevsky, Lev; Jeroen Piket; Christophe Guéneau (1995). Sicilian Love: Lev Polugaevsky Chess Tournament, Bueno Aires...

compensation for a pawn. In the diagrammed position from a game between Lev Polugaevsky and Larry Evans, the rook on the seventh rank enables White to draw...

theoretical physicist Lev Polugaevsky (1934–1995), Soviet grandmaster and author Lev Pontryagin (1908–1988), Soviet mathematician Lev Russov (1926–1987)...

appearance at the 1956 USSR Chess Championship, sharing 5th–7th place with Lev Polugaevsky and Ratmir Kholmov. Grigory Levenfish called him "the most colourful...

Petrosian, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Tal, Leonid Stein, Viktor Korchnoi, Lev Polugaevsky  United States 34½ Bobby Fischer, Robert Byrne, Pal Benko, Larry Evans...

1973-07 7 Lajos Portisch 2650 1973-07 8 Tigran Petrosian 2645 1972-07 Lev Polugaevsky 2645 1972-07 10 Henrique Mecking 2635 1977-01 11 Mikhail Botvinnik...

holds good even for Bobby Fischer. Lev Polugevsky; Jeroen Piket & Christophe Guéneau (1995). Sicilian Love: Lev Polugaevsky Chess Tournament, Buenos Aires...

contested a playoff in Portorož for the remaining two spots. Portisch and Polugaevsky qualified. The 1974 Candidates Tournament was played as knockout matches...

Nei (Soviet Union) 27 1965  Lajos Portisch (Hungary)  Efim Geller (Soviet Union) 28 1966  Lev Polugaevsky (Soviet Union) 29 1967  Boris Spassky (Soviet Union)...

Korchnoi at Moscow by 5½–2½. In 1973, he tied with Lajos Portisch and Lev Polugaevsky for second place at the Petropolis Interzonal, but lost out in the...

the top 3 from each qualifying for the Candidates Tournament. Mecking, Polugaevsky, and Hort qualified for the Candidates Tournament. Larsen qualified outright...

finally found himself in a group of five, tied for second place, behind Lev Polugaevsky. A clear second had to be chosen since the top two players would get...

traps in attempting to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. 1958: Lev Polugaevsky vs Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Sochi. In one of the most celebrated games...

pawn (Fine & Benko 2003:586). In this position from a game between Lev Polugaevsky and Larry Evans, the rook on the seventh rank enables White to draw...

1970 Palma de Mallorca Interzonal, when Fischer played 1.c4 against Lev Polugaevsky and Oscar Panno. Gligorić 1972, p. 52 Gligorić 1972, pp. 51–52 D. Marović...

1972 Wijk aan Zee Lajos Portisch Amsterdam Lev Polugaevsky Teesside Bent Larsen Kislovodsk Lev Polugaevsky Las Palmas Lajos Portisch Sarajevo László Szabó...

Palmas with Ulf Andersson and Mikhail Tal, and then at Manila with Lev Polugaevsky, Bent Larsen and Helmut Pfleger. He was considered a contender for...

who played in the candidate's final match. Next came four players (Lev Polugaevsky, Geller, Vasily Smyslov, and Taimanov) who earned the right to play...

1981 (with Vlastimil Hort), Ramat Hasharon 1982 and Manila 1982 (with Lev Polugaevsky). Lobron's qualification as a Grandmaster took place the same year...

London, with the match again held across ten boards. He faced Soviet GM Lev Polugaevsky, his former teammate, in three games, winning one and drawing two;...

played by Vasily Smyslov on a few occasions, most notably in a win over Lev Polugaevsky in the 1961 USSR Championship. That game continued 3...d5 4.exd5 Nxd5...

at Munich 1958, Mikhail Tal and Miguel Najdorf at Leipzig 1960, and Lev Polugaevsky at Havana 1966. Campomanes became involved in FIDE as a national delegate...

disastrously. An example of this is the following grandmaster game: Lev Polugaevsky vs. Ľubomír Ftáčnik, Lucerne Olympiad 1982 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nc3...

Yusupov (Soviet Union) 2555 1 ½ ½ ½ – ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 7½ 46.00 6  Lev Polugaevsky (Soviet Union) 2610 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ – 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 7½ 44.50 7  Yasser...

December to 26 December 1967 in Tbilisi. The tournament was won by Lev Polugaevsky and Mikhail Tal. For the first time the Soviet Chess Championship was...

playwright Simeon Piščević, major-general and governor of Mogilev (1777) Lev Polugaevsky, International Grandmaster of chess Leo Rogin, Economist and Writer...

then surviving a further three-man playoff for two berths against Lev Polugaevsky and Efim Geller, at Portorož 1973, by winning outright with 5½/8; however...

international master Lev Polugaevsky (1934–1995), Belarusian/Soviet grandmaster Dawid Przepiórka (1880–1940), Polish, killed by Nazis Lev Psakhis (born 1958)...

the top Soviet players. He won at Le Havre 1966 with 9/11, ahead of Lev Polugaevsky. At Santa Monica 1966, he placed third with 10/18, behind Spassky and...