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Meet an “Amazing” Who Has a Passion For the End Game

He was only 27 when he won the Moscow Championship.

At age 95, Yuri Averbakh is the oldest living chess Grandmaster. He was only 27 when he won the Moscow Championship, and by the age of 30, he became an International Grandmaster. Since then, he has gone on to win tournament after tournament. Yuri is also renowned in the chess world for his many published studies on endgame theory.

Recently, despite eyesight so poor he can hardly see the board, Yuri played an exciting exhibition match against one of the youngest chess prodigies: four-year-old Misha Osipov. To this day, Yuri actively continues his love of chess by helping to train chess coaches at the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology.

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