Yury Toshev (24 December 1907 – 19 April 1974) was a Bulgarian 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...

 master.

He thrice won the Bulgarian Chess Championship

Bulgarian Chess Championship

The Bulgarian Chess Championship is an event inaugurated in 1933 to crown the best chess player in Bulgaria. The championship has been held on a nearly annual basis since, with only a few years missed...

 (1933 - jointly with Georgy Geshev

Georgy Geshev

Georgy Geshev was a Bulgarian chess master.At the beginning of his career, he tied for 6-7th at Varna 1926 , shared 1st with Pipkas at Sofia 1927, won at Trnovo 1928, and took 2nd, behind A...

  but lost a play-off match to him, 1942, and 1947 - jointly with Kamen Piskov) ).

He represented Bulgaria in the 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad

3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad

The 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad was held by German Chess Federation as a counterpart of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with reference to 1924 and 1928 events....

 at Munich 1936. After World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, he twice played for Bulgaria in Balkaniad team tournaments, and won bronze medals at Belgrade 1946 and Sofia 1947.

External links

• Yury Toshev chess games 365Chess.com