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Encyclopedia > Yakov Estrin

Yakov Borisovich Estrin (April 21, 1923–February 2, 1987) was a Russian chess International Grandmaster and theoretician, most famous for being the seventh ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1972 and 1976. April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chess is an abstract strategy board game for two players. ... The title International Grandmaster is awarded to world-class chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. ... Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, usually through a correspondence chess server, through e-mail or by the postal system; less common methods which have been employed include fax and homing pigeon. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1976 calendar). ...


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Preceded by:
Horst Rittner		 World Correspondence Chess Champion
1972–1976		 Succeeded by:
Jorn Sloth

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The chess games of Yakov Estrin (779 words)
Yakov Borisovich Estrin was born April 21, 1923 in Moscow.
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 CGM (Correspondence Grandmaster) in 1966, and would go on to compete in the final of the World Correspondence Championship five times.
: Yakov Borisovich Estrin was born 21st April 1923 in Moscow.
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