Alla Kuschnir


Alla Kuschnir, Wijk aan Zee 1976
Association	Soviet Union Soviet Union (until 1973) Israel (from 1975) Israel
Born	August 11, 1941 Moscow , Soviet Union
Died	August 2, 2013 Tel Aviv
title	International Women's Champion (1962) Women's Grandmaster (1976)
Best Elo rating	2430 (January 1990 to August 2013)

Alla Shulimovna Kuschnir ( Hebrew אלה שולימובנה קושניר; Russian Алла Шулимовна Кушнир ; * August 11, 1941 in Moscow ; † August 2, 2013 in Tel Aviv ) was a Russian-Israeli chess player .

Life

Kuschnir was vice world champion in chess in the late 1960s and early 1970s and female Soviet Union champion in 1970. She challenged world champion Nona Gaprindashvili three times . She lost in Riga in 1965 , in Tbilisi / Moscow in 1969 and in Riga in 1972 .

She emigrated to Israel in 1974 and has since represented the Israeli Chess Federation. In 1976 she was named the women's chess grandmaster (WGM). In the same year she won the interzonal tournament Roosendaal 1976 with equal points with Elena Akhmilovskaya .

She later gave up her chess career (after 1979 she no longer played a rated game), studied archeology and became a professor at Tel Aviv University .

From July 1972 to January 1978 she was continuously in second place in the world rankings for women.

She took part in three women's chess Olympiads . In 1969 in Lublin and 1972 in Skopje she won with the Soviet Union and achieved the best individual result on the second board, in 1976 in Haifa she won with Israel and achieved the best individual result on the first board.

Publications

Palestinian Lead Weight Mentioning the Emperor Hadrian in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Volume 159, 2007, pp. 291-292, ISSN 0084-5388
New Hellenistic Lead Weights from Palestine and Phenicia in Israel Exploration Journal, Vol. 52, No. 2, 2002, pp. 225-230, ISSN 0021-2059
Two Inscribed Lead Weights of Agrippa II in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Volume 141, 2002, pp. 295-297, ISSN 0084-5388
What Late Hellenistic Silver Coinage Minted for Propaganda Purposes? in The Numismatic Chronicle, 2001, pp. 41-52, ISSN 0078-2696
On the Visit of Agrippa I to Alexandria in AD 38 in The Journal of Jewish studies, Volume 51, No. 2, 2000, p. 227, ISSN 0022-2097
An Inscribed Lead Weight from Ashdod: A Reconsideration in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Volume 105, 1995, pp. 81-84, ISSN 0084-5388
Two Inscribed Weights from Banias in Israel Exploration Journal, Volume 45, No. 1, 1995, pp. 48-51, ISSN 0021-2059

Web links

Commons : Alla Kuschnir - collection of images

Replayable chess games by Alla Kuschnir on chessgames.com (English)
Elo history on olimpbase.org (English)
Literature by and about Alla Kuschnir in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Alla Kuschnir in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ Alla Kushnir turns 70 ( Memento from July 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Whychess.com, August 11, 2011
↑ Alla Kuschnir's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Kuschnir, Alla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kuschnir, Alla Shulimovna; Алла Шулимовна Кушнир (Russian); Kushnir, Alla (FIDE); Kushnir-Stein, Alla (FIDE 1977 to 1978)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian-Israeli chess player
DATE OF BIRTH	August 11, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow
DATE OF DEATH	August 2, 2013
Place of death	Tel Aviv

[1] Alla Kushnir turns 70 ( Memento from July 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Whychess.com, August 11, 2011

[2] Alla Kuschnir's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)