Back ليونيد شامكوڤيتش ARZ Леонид Шамкович Bulgarian Leonid Xamkóvitx Catalan Leonid Alexandrowitsch Schamkowitsch German Leonid Shamkovich Spanish Leonid Shamkovich Estonian Leonid Chamkovitch French לאוניד שמקוביץ' HE Leonid Šamkovič Italian Leonīds Šamkovičs Latvian/Lettish
Leonid Shamkovich | |
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 Shamkovich at the 1980 Chess Olympiad, Malta | |
| Full name | Leonid Aleksandrovich Shamkovich |
| Country | Soviet Union (until 1974) Israel (1975-1978) United States (after 1979) |
| Born | 1 June 1923 Rostov-on-Don, Soviet Union |
| Died | 22 April 2005 (aged 81) Brooklyn, New York City |
| Title | Grandmaster (1965) |
| Peak rating | 2540 (July 1973) |
| Peak ranking | No. 41 (July 1973) |
Leonid Aleksandrovich Shamkovich (Russian: Леони́д Алекса́ндрович Шамко́вич; June 1, 1923 – April 22, 2005)[1] was a chess Grandmaster and chess writer.
He was born in a Jewish family in Rostov-on-Don in Russia.
- ^ McClain, Dylan Loeb (7 May 2005). "Leonid Shamkovich, 81, Ex-Soviet Chess Grandmaster, is Dead". The New York Times.