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Albert Becker

Austrian-argentine chess player (1896-1984).

Born September 5th, 1896 in Vienna.

Died May 7th, 1984 at 87 years old in Vicente López.

Occupations
chess player, non-fiction writer, university teacher

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel