Rashid Nezhmetdinov
…Alex Pishkin compares him to Chigorin, Réti and Spielmann. Nezhmetdinov was born in Aktubinsk, Russian Empire, in what is now Aktobe, Kazakhstan, to a Tatar family. His parents were "worked to death" when he was still very young, rendering him (and his two siblings) an orphan. (His older brother Kavi Nadzhmi…