David Bronstein
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David Ionovich Bronstein was a Soviet and Russian chess player. Awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in 1950, he narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951. Bronstein was
Bronstein in 1954
Bronstein in 1963
Bronstein in 1968
Bronstein's grave in Minsk, Belarus
Isaac Boleslavsky
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Isaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky was a Soviet chess grandmaster and writer.
David Bronstein
…he was only 15, and achieved the Soviet Master title at the age of 16 for his second-place result in the 1940 Ukrainian SSR Chess Championship, behind Isaac Boleslavsky, with whom he became close friends both on and off the chessboard. His first wife was Olga Ignatieva, one of the strongest female chess players of the…
Isaac Boleslavsky 1960