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Yuri Averbakh

Russian chess player and author (1922-2022).

Born February 8th, 1922 in Kaluga. [ref]

Died May 7th, 2022 at 100 years old in Moscow. [ref]

Occupations
chess composer, chess player, chess theoretician, 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