Russia, Chess Player
February 19,
1924 – December, 5, 2006.
David Ionovich Bronstein (Russian: Дави́д Ио́нович Бронште́йнer) was a Soviet chess grandmaster, who narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951. Bronstein was one of the world's strongest players from the mid-1940s into the mid-1970s, and was described by his peers as a creative genius and master of tactics. He was also a renowned chess writer, and his book Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953 is widely considered one of the greatest chess books ever written.
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