Alexander Shakarov
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Alexander Shakarov is a Soviet chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 player, coach and author of Armenian descent.

He is best known for being Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist, and one of the greatest chess players of all time....

's coach from 1976 to 2005. Together they wrote Caro-Kann: Classical 4…Bf5 book (1984). Kasparov said: "The name of Alexander Shakarov might not be world famous, but hardly anyone has lived a life more dedicated to chess. He is one of the most dedicated workers I've ever met."

Shakarov was also the trainer of Ashot Nadanian
Ashot Nadanian
Ashot Nadanian is an Armenian chess International Master , chess theoretician and chess coach....

.

The fourth chapter of Tibor Karolyi's 2009 book Genius in the Background is devoted to him.

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