Mikhail Chigorin

Chess Player

1850 – 1908

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Who was Mikhail Chigorin?

Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin was a leading Russian chess player. 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.

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Born
Nov 12, 1850
Gatchina
Died
Jan 25, 1908
Lublin

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on July 23, 2013

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