Grigory Sanakoev
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Grigory Konstantinovich Sanakoev (born April 17, 1935 in Voronezh
, Russia
) is a Russian
chess
grandmaster of correspondence chess
, most famous for being the 12th ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1984 and 1991.
He is the author of a book on correspondence chess World Champion at the Third Attempt.
Voronezh
Voronezh is a city in southwestern Russia, the administrative center of Voronezh Oblast. It is located on both sides of the Voronezh River, away from where it flows into the Don. It is an operating center of the Southeastern Railway , as well as the center of the Don Highway...
, Russia
Russia
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) is a Russian
Russians
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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...
grandmaster of correspondence chess
Correspondence chess
Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, usually through a correspondence chess server, through email or by the postal system; less common methods which have been employed include fax and homing pigeon...
, most famous for being the 12th ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1984 and 1991.
He is the author of a book on correspondence chess World Champion at the Third Attempt.