Rashid Nezhmetdinov
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Rashid Gibyatovich Nezhmetdinov was a Soviet chess player, chess writer, International Master and checkers player. Although he never attained the title of Grandmaster, he was a renowned tactician and
Rashid Nezhmetdinov
Nezhmetdinov's gravestone in the Arskoe Cemetery in Kazan, Tatarstan Republic, Russia
Kazan
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Kazan is the capital and largest city of Tatarstan, Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, covering an area of 425.3 square kilometres, with a population of over
Rashid Nezhmetdinov
…famine killed over 2 million children. But Nezhmetdinov endured, thanks in large part to his poet brother – Kavi Nadzhmi – who secured him a place at a Kazan orphanage. Nezhmetdinov later regarded this orphanage as paradise, his only prior happy memory being "the time he got to eat fish soup on the banks of…
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