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Vladimir Zagorovsky

Vladimir Zagorovsky

Russian chess grandmaster (1925–1994)

Vladimir Pavlovich Zagorovsky (Russian: Влади́мир Па́влович Загоро́вский; 29 June 1925, Voronezh, Russia, formerly USSR – 6 November 1994, Voronezh, Russia) was a Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess. He is most famous for being the fourth ICCF World Champion between 1962 and 1965.[1] He won the 1952 Moscow City Championship and finished 2nd in the 1951 championship. In the July 1972 FIDE rating list he had an over the board rating of 2370.[2] His brother Mikhail Zagorovsky was also a chess master.

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Selected titles

  • 1948: Master of Sports of the USSR (chess)[3]
  • 1991: Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (chess)

Books

  • Zagororovsky, Vladimir (1982). Romantic Chess Openings. ISBN 0713436239. OCLC 9972859.

Notes and references

References

  1. [1]
    Hopper-Whyld, 1987, pp. 19, 126, 340.
  2. [2]
    Searching: "Zagorovsky, Vladimir". OlimpBase.
  3. [3]
    Karpov 1990, p. 234.

References

Preceded by World Correspondence Chess Champion
1962–1965		 Succeeded by


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