Mikhail Chigorin
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Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin was a Russian chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times. The last great player of the Romantic chess style, he also
Михаил Иванович Чигорин
Mikhail Chigorin shortly before his death in 1908
Mikhail Chigorin on a 1958 Soviet postage stamp
Soviet chess school
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The Soviet school of chess was asserted to be a national style of play by Soviet chess players and journalists. Although chess had been a game of the bourgeoisie and upper classes before the Russian R
Mikhail Chigorin
…against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times. The last great player of the Romantic chess style, he also served as a major source of inspiration for the "Soviet chess school", which dominated the chess world in the middle and latter parts of the 20th century. Chigorin was born in Gatchina but moved to nearby Saint Petersburg…
Mikhail Botvinnik, circa 1969
David Bronstein, c. 1968
Mark Taimanov, c. 1970