Yakov Estrin
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| Full name | Yakov Borisovich Estrin | |
| Country |  Russia |
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| Born | April 21, 1923 Moscow, Russia |
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| Died | February 2, 1987 (aged 63) Moscow, Russia |
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| Title | Grandmaster | |
Yakov Borisovich Estrin (April 21, 1923 – February 2, 1987) was a Russian chess Grandmaster, theoretician, and writer.
After a brief foray into "over-the-board" play, he turned to correspondence chess in the early 1960s with immediate success (joint first place in the U.S.S.R. Correspondence Championship in 1962.) He became an ICCGM (International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster) in 1966, and would go on to compete in the final of the World Correspondence Championship five times. He is best known for being the seventh International Correspondence Chess Federation world champion between 1972 and 1976.
In 1984, he was awarded the over-the-board Grandmaster title.
Estrin wrote several chess books and was an authority on the Two Knights Defense. His game with Hans Berliner in which Berliner played the Two Knights Defense and defeated Estrin is one of the most famous and important games in correspondence chess.[1][2]
[edit] Books
- The Two Knights Defence, by Yakov Estrin, Chess Ltd., 1970. (no ISBN or LOC number)
- The Two Knights Defence (1983) by Yakov Estrin, B.T.Batsford Ltd. ISBN 0-7134-3991-2.
- Three Double King Pawn Openings by Yakov Estrin, Chess Enterprises; first edition (June 1982). ISBN 0-9314-6219-3
- Gambits by Yakov B. Estrin, Chess Enterprises (June 1983). ISBN 0-9314-6220-7
- The United States Correspondence Chess Championship by Yakov Estrin, Correspondence Chess League of America (1978)
- Wilkes-Barre Variation, Two Knights Defense by Yakov Estrin, Chess Enterprises (June 1978). ISBN 0-9314-6200-2
- Comprehensive Chess Openings, by Yakov Estrin and Vasily Panov, in three volumes, Pergamon, 1980. ISBN 0-08-024113-1 (for set of three volumes in flexicover)
[edit] References
- ^ Burgess, Graham; Nunn, John & Emms, John (2004), The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games, Carroll & Graf, pp. 309-15, ISBN 0-7867-1411-5
- ^ Evans, Larry (1970), Modern Chess Brilliancies, Fireside, pp. 217-21, ISBN 0-671-22420-4
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| Preceded by Horst Rittner |
World Correspondence Chess Champion 1972–1976 |
Succeeded by Jørn Sloth |
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