Mikhail Umansky
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Mikhail Markovich Umansky (in Russian ), born January 21, 1952 in Stavropol
, then USSR, was a Russian
chess
grandmaster of correspondence chess
, who was the 13th ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1989 and 1998. He was also USSR Correspondence Champion in 1978.
He might lay claim to being the greatest Correspondence player of all time, since we convincingly won a "champion of champions" tournament, the ICCF 50 Years World Champion Jubilee, a special invitational correspondence tournament involving all living former ICCF World Champions. He scored a superb 7/8 (+6 -0 =2), two points ahead of Gert Jan Timmerman
, Fritz Baumbach and Victor Palciauskas
. One of his victims was Hans Berliner
, who said after his defeat: "It is amazing that Umansky took only 55!! days to play this wonderful game.. I still do not know where I went wrong in that game".http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1266970 See World Champions Jubilee Tournament (2003).
Mikhail died on December 17, 2010 in Augsburg
, Germany.
Stavropol
-International relations:-Twin towns/sister cities:Stavropol is twinned with: Des Moines, United States Béziers, France Pazardzhik, Bulgaria-External links:* **...
, then USSR, was a Russian
Russians
The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....
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...
, who was the 13th ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1989 and 1998. He was also USSR Correspondence Champion in 1978.
He might lay claim to being the greatest Correspondence player of all time, since we convincingly won a "champion of champions" tournament, the ICCF 50 Years World Champion Jubilee, a special invitational correspondence tournament involving all living former ICCF World Champions. He scored a superb 7/8 (+6 -0 =2), two points ahead of Gert Jan Timmerman
Gert Jan Timmerman
Gert Jan Timmerman is a Dutch chess player, most famous for being the fifteenth ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1996 and 2002....
, Fritz Baumbach and Victor Palciauskas
Victor Palciauskas
Dr Victor Palciauskas is an American grandmaster of correspondence chess, most famous for being the tenth ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1978 and 1984....
. One of his victims was Hans Berliner
Hans Berliner
Hans Jack Berliner , a Professor of , is a former World Correspondence Chess Champion, from 1965–68. He is a Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess, and an International Master for over-the-board chess. He directed the construction of the chess computer HiTech. Berliner is also a chess writer.-Life...
, who said after his defeat: "It is amazing that Umansky took only 55!! days to play this wonderful game.. I still do not know where I went wrong in that game".http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1266970 See World Champions Jubilee Tournament (2003).
Mikhail died on December 17, 2010 in Augsburg
Augsburg
Augsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is, as of 2008, the third-largest city in Bavaria with a...
, Germany.