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Leonid Shamkovich
Chess player.
Born June 1st, 1923 in Rostov-on-Don.
Died April 22nd, 2005 at 81 years old in Brooklyn (Parkinson's disease).
Occupations
chess player, non-fiction writer
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde