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    Leonid Zakharovych Stein (Ukrainian: Леонід Захарович Штейн; November 12, 1934 – July 4, 1973) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster from Ukraine. He won three...
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  • Records 2008 Leonid Stupnyckj (1891-1944), Commander and Figure in the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army Leonid Stein (1934–1973)...
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    Petrosian, Viktor Korchnoi, Alexander Beliavsky Three titles: Paul Keres, Leonid Stein, Anatoly Karpov Women's Soviet Chess Championship Russian Chess Championship...
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    Moscow 1961, where he again lost a crucial last-round game, this to Leonid Stein, who thus qualified, as Spassky finished equal fifth with 11/19, while...
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  • analyst Leonid Stein (1934–1973), Soviet chess grandmaster Lotte Stein (1894–1982), German actress Mark Stein, English footballer Mary Kay Stein, American...
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    remaining qualifiers were Victor Korchnoi with 13 and Efim Geller and Leonid Stein with 12. Notable players who failed to qualify from this zone were former...
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    Championship Riga Viktor Korchnoi 1971 Wijk aan Zee Pärnu Leonid Stein Moscow Anatoly Karpov Leonid Stein Tallinn Paul Keres Mikhail Tal Amsterdam Vasily Smyslov...
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    36½ Tigran Petrosian, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Paul Keres, Leonid Stein, Boris Spassky  Yugoslavia 32 Svetozar Gligorić, Borislav Ivkov, Aleksandar...
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  • 2625 1974-05 Jan Timman 2625 1979-01 14 Vassily Smyslov 2620 1971-07 Leonid Stein 2620 1972-07 Ljubomir Ljubojević 2620 1976-01 Efim Geller 2620 1976-01...
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    three-way tie for sixth place among Samuel Reshevsky, Vlastimil Hort, and Leonid Stein, who played a round-robin playoff to determine the final place in the...
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    the number of players from a single country, the Soviet Union players Leonid Stein and David Bronstein were ineligible, so Portisch played a match against...
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    Karpov won the 1971 Alekhine Memorial tournament in Moscow (jointly with Leonid Stein), ahead of a star-studded field, for his first significant adult victory...
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    Lajos Portisch: +9−5=18 Vasily Smyslov: +3−4=21 Boris Spassky: +6−9=27 Leonid Stein: +0−3=15 Miguel Najdorf: +3−1=5 Pal Benko: +8−1=3 Wolfgang Uhlmann: +4−0=3...
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  • for more." Later, Bent Larsen, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Lev Polugaevsky, Leonid Stein, Mark Taimanov, and Mikhail Tal all made extensive contributions to the...
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    10 Larsen is a tactical wizard who gets outplayed in this encounter. Leonid Stein vs. Geller, USSR Team Championship, Moscow 1966, King's Indian Defence...
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    grandmasters Paul Keres and Leonid Stein. The Keres Variation arises after 7...Nbd7 8.Bg5 h6 9.Bh4 g5 10.Bg3 Nh5 11.h4, and the Stein Variation begins an immediate...
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    Taimanov, Yuri Averbakh, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Tal, Viktor Korchnoi, and Leonid Stein dominated the landscape with their sharper styles and innovative openings...
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  • Ilya Rabinovich Leonid Shamkovich Ilya Smirin Gennadi Sosonko Leonid Stein Peter Svidler Mark Taimanov Boris Verlinsky Yakov Vilner Leonid Yudasin Yuri Foreman...
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    grandfather. Mihail Starenki (1879–?), Bessarabian politician born here. Leonid Stein (1934–1973), Soviet chess Grandmaster, born here. Paul Burman (1888–1932)...
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  • number of prominent players, including Vasily Smyslov, Viktor Korchnoi, Leonid Stein and Bobby Fischer. Garry Kasparov often used the defence, including in...
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  • early career), Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Tigran Petrosian, Leonid Stein, Rafael Vaganian, Ljubomir Ljubojevic, Gregory Kaidanov, Igor Glek, Alexander...
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    Spielmann (1883–1942), Austrian-born Swedish Leonid Stein (1934–1973), Ukrainian-born Russian grandmaster Endre Steiner (1901–1944), Hungarian[citation needed]...
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  • 1967 in Moscow, where he finished on 10/17, a point behind the winner Leonid Stein. His second place was shared with Milko Bobotsov and two World Champions...
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  • leading players over the years, including GMs Pal Benko, Bobby Fischer, Leonid Stein and Lev Psakhis. White will likely play Ngf3, g3, Bg2, 0-0, c3 and/or...
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    the World side, ahead of Fischer, and scored 2½/4 against Spassky and Leonid Stein. At Leiden 1970, he shared 3rd–4th places with 5½/12, (Spassky won)....
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  • doi:10.1137/S0895480195296221, MR 1640920. Slonim, Donna; Kruglyak, Leonid; Stein, Lincoln; Lander, Eric (1997), "Building human genome maps with radiation...
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    November 1965 to 24 December 1965 in Tallinn. The tournament was won by Leonid Stein. The finals were preceded by semifinals events at Leningrad and Omsk...
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    enjoys a good reputation; such notable grandmasters as Vasyl Ivanchuk, Leonid Stein, Alexander Beliavsky, Andrei Volokitin used to live in Lviv. Grandmaster...
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    November to 27 December 1963 in Leningrad. The tournament was won by Leonid Stein. The final were preceded by semifinals events at Almaty, Kharkov, Moscow...
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    University and University of Georgia law schools in the United States Leonid Stein (1934–1973), grandmaster and Soviet Chess Champion Hugo Steinhaus (1887–1982)...
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