Yakov Estrin
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Yakov Borisovich Estrin (April 21, 1923, Moscow – February 2, 1987) was a Russian chess International Grandmaster, theoretician, and writer.
After a brief foray into over-the-board play, he turned to correspondence chess in the early 1960's with immediate success (joint first place in the U.S.S.R. Correspondence Championship in 1962.) He became a ICCGM (International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster) in 1966, and would go on to compete in the final of the World Correspondence Championship five times. He is best known for being the seventh International Correspondence Chess Federation world champion between 1972 and 1976.
In 1984, he was awarded the "over the board" Grandmaster title.
Estrin wrote several chess books and was an authority on the Two Knights Defense. His game with Hans Berliner in which Berliner played the Two Knights Defense is one of the most famous and important games in correspondence chess (Burgess, Nunn & Emms 2004:309-15).
[edit] Books
- Two Knights Defense, by Yakov Estrin, Chess Ltd., 1970.
[edit] References
- Burgess, Graham; John Nunn & John Emms (2004), The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games, Carroll & Graf, ISBN 0-7867-1411-5
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| Preceded by Horst Rittner | World Correspondence Chess Champion 1972–1976 | Succeeded by Jørn Sloth |
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