Anatoly Jakowlewitsch Lein

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Anatoli Lein, Seattle 2003
Association Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union (until 1976) United States (since 1978)
United StatesUnited States 
Born March 28, 1931
Leningrad , Soviet Union
Died March 1, 2018
Cleveland Heights , Ohio
title International Master (1964)
Grand Master (1968)
Best Elo rating 2545 (July 1973)

Anatoli Jakowlewitsch Lein ( Russian Анатолий Яковлевич Лейн ; born March 28, 1931 in Leningrad , † March 1, 2018 in Cleveland Heights , Ohio) was an American , formerly Soviet chess master .

Life

Anatoli Lein was awarded the title of International Master by FIDE in 1964, and the title of Grand Master in 1968 . He participated in seven championships of the USSR. In 1976 he emigrated to the United States, in the same year he won the US Open. At the 1978 Chess Olympiad he played on board 3 for the USA and won the bronze medal with his team. With the Soviet team, he won the European team championship in Hamburg in 1965 and achieved the best individual result on the first reserve board. In the summer of 1984 in Berlin , he finished second behind Eric Lobron . From 1992 to 1995 he won the New Jersey championship four times in a row . In 2004 he was inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame .

Lein took part in tournaments well into old age. He was later listed as inactive because he had not played an Elo-rated game after the Ohio Chess Congress, which was held in Hudson, Ohio in August 2013 . It reached its best Elo rating of 2545 in July 1973, before the Elo rating was introduced, it achieved its best historical rating of 2662 in February 1967 , placing it in 26th place in the world rankings.

He died two weeks after his wife Barbara, with whom he had been married for 40 years.

Tournament successes

Anatoli Lein, 1995 at the Senior World Championship

Works

  • The Latvian gambit: a grandmaster view (1995)
  • Sharpen your tactics: 1125 brilliant sacrifices, combinations, and studies (1996)
  • In the world of tactics (1998)

Individual evidence

  1. Obituary , accessed on March 2, 2018
  2. Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 75
  3. Anatoli Leins results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. Anatoli Lein's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. List of New Jersey Champions 1946 - Present ( Memento of the original dated December 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , New Jersey State Chess Federation, accessed March 3, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / njscf.org

Web links

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