Yuri Sakharov
Chess Player
1922 – 1981
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Who was Yuri Sakharov?
Yuri Nikolaevich Sakharov was a Soviet chess master.
Sakharov was twice Ukrainian Champion in 1966 and 1968. He participated in many Ukrainian championships, tying for 4-6th in 1946, tying for 3rd-4th in 1947, tying for 6-9th in 1949, taking 5th in 1951, taking 2nd, behind Efim Geller, in 1958, tying for 4-5th in 1959, sharing 1st with Leonid Stein but lost to him a match for the title in 1960, tying for 3rd-4th in 1961, taking 3rd in 1962, and tying for 2nd-3rd in 1964.
Sakharov earned the International Master of Correspondence Chess title in 1971. He died in 1981 in Kiev.
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