Anatoly Jakowlewitsch Lein
Anatoli Lein, Seattle 2003 |
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Association |
Soviet Union (until 1976) United States (since 1978)
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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
- 1964 Kiev (USSR Championship): 7th place
- 1966 Tbilisi (USSR Championship): 6th place
- 1968 Sarajevo: 1st place (shared with Dragoljub Ćirić )
- 1972 Cienfuegos Capablanca Memorial : 1st place
- 1972 Novi Sad: 1st place
- 1973 Novi Sad: 1st place
- 1980/81 Hastings: 3rd place
- Senior World Chess Championship 1992 in Bad Wörishofen: 2nd place
- Senior World Chess Championship 1993 in Bad Wildbad: 4th place
- World Chess Championship of the Seniors 1994 in Biel: 4th place
- World Chess Championship for Seniors 1996 in Bad Liebenzell: 2nd place
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
- ↑ Obituary , accessed on March 2, 2018
- ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 75
- ↑ Anatoli Leins results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ Anatoli Lein's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ 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
Web links
- Playable chess games by Anatoli Jakowlewitsch Lein on chessgames.com (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lein, Anatoly Jakowlewitsch |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lein, Anatoly (FIDE); Лейн, Анатолий Яковлевич (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet-American chess grandmaster |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1931 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leningrad |
DATE OF DEATH | 1st March 2018 |
Place of death | Cleveland Heights , Ohio |