Archive for In memoriam
Thursday, November 22, 2012 11:23
Elena Bronislavovna Akhmilovskaya passed away in Kirksland, Washington, U.S.A., on 18 November 2012 after a long and serious illness. Born 11 March 1957 in Leningrad, she was only 55 years old. According to the New York Times, her husband Georgi Orlov has said the cause was brain cancer. She also leaves a daughter, Donna, and a son, Nicholas. Our...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 19:12
Leon Pliester passed away at the age of 58. The Dutch International Master suffered from a liver illness which had affected his kidneys as well. This was reported by the Dutch Chess Federation today on its website.
Leon Pliester | Photo by Dimitri Reinderman
Pliester learnt chess when he was four years old - the game was taught by his uncle Jan. (...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 19:17
The legendary Serbian grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric, a former top 10 player and hero of the King's Indian, died today at the Belgrade Emergency Center as a result of a stroke. This was reported by Croatian and Serbian media. Gligoric was champion of Yugoslavia a record twelve times and was declared the best athlete of Yugoslavia in 1958. During...
Monday, August 13, 2012 14:40
Olivier Breisacher, one of the organizers and driving force behind the Biel Chess Festival, passed away on Thursday. The 44-year-old journalist drowned during a holiday in Mallorca, according to Swiss media.
Breisacher grew up in Biel and studied in Geneva, where he earned a master's degree at the Institute of International Studies. Working as a...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 23:20
Tragic news appeared today on the website of the Russian Chess Federation: the well-known Russian grandmaster and trainer Yuri Razuvaev passed away at the age of 66. As we understand, Razuvaev had been ill for a while.
Yuri Sergeyevich Razuvaev was born on October 10th, 1945. A historian by profession, Razuvaev also distinguished himself as a...
Thursday, March 08, 2012 20:27
José Raul Capablanca passed away exactly 70 years ago today. In this small tribute we'd like to point out a 1939 interview with Capablanca, translated by chess historian Edward Winter. The interview was originally published in the Buenos Aires magazine El Gráfico in 1939 and reprinted on pages 103-107 of Homenaje a Capablanca (Havana, 1943).
In...
Saturday, December 24, 2011 18:11
Sad news on Christmas Eve: two times Soviet Champion Vitaly Tseshkovsky passed away on December 24th in Krasnodar, Russia. The well-known Russian grandmaster died in harness: participating in the Krai Cup, Tseshkovsky became ill during the first round, lost consciousness and died. This was reported today by the Russian Chess Federation.
Vitaly...
Sunday, September 25, 2011 11:19
Sad news reaches us via our co-editor Yochanan Afek, who writes that GM Konstantin Lerner passed away on the evening of Saturday, September 24th, 2011 in Hertzlia, Israel at the age of 61 following illness.
Konstantin Zaivelevich Lerner was born 28 February 1950 in Odessa. In 1978 and 1982, he was Ukrainian Champion. He was awarded the GM title in...
Monday, February 14, 2011 19:38
Yugoslav grandmaster Mato Damjanovic passed away on Saturday, reportedly while playing a game at his chess club. Damjanovic was Yugoslavia's first reserve board at the Leipzig Olympiad in 1960 and an active and strong tournament player in the sixties and seventies. He would have turned 84 next month.
Mato Damjanovic was born on March 23, 1927 in...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 18:11
Grandmaster and chess journalist Larry Evans passed away on Monday, November 15th at Washoe Hospital in Reno, Nevada (USA). As reported by the the United States Chess Federation (USCF), Evans died from complications following a gall bladder operation.
U.S. grandmaster Larry Evans | Photo Wikipedia
Larry Evans was born in Manhattan on March 22,...
