In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Abramovich and the family name is Polugaevsky.
Lev Polugaevsky
Polugaevsky in 1972
Full name
Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky Лев Абрамович Полугаевский
Country
Soviet Union → Russia
Born
(1934-11-20)20 November 1934 Mogilev, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Died
30 August 1995(1995-08-30) (aged 60) Paris, France
Title
Grandmaster (1962)
Peak rating
2645 (July 1972)
Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky (Russian: Лев Абрамович Полугаевский, IPA:[pəlʊɡɐˈjefskʲɪj]; 20 November 1934 – 30 August 1995) was a Soviet chess player. He was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in 1962 and was a frequent contender for the World Championship, although he never achieved that title. He was one of the strongest players in the world from the early 1960s until the late 1980s, as well as a distinguished author and opening theorist whose contributions in this field remain important to the present day.
Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky (Russian: Лев Абрамович Полугаевский, IPA: [pəlʊɡɐˈjefskʲɪj]; 20 November 1934 – 30 August 1995) was a Soviet chess player....
appearance at the 1956 USSR Chess Championship, sharing 5th–7th place with LevPolugaevsky and Ratmir Kholmov. Grigory Levenfish called him "the most colourful...
contested a playoff in Portorož for the remaining two spots. Portisch and Polugaevsky qualified. The 1974 Candidates Tournament was played as knockout matches...
holds good even for Bobby Fischer. Lev Polugevsky; Jeroen Piket & Christophe Guéneau (1995). Sicilian Love: LevPolugaevsky Chess Tournament, Buenos Aires...
Petrosian, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Tal, Leonid Stein, Viktor Korchnoi, LevPolugaevsky United States 34½ Bobby Fischer, Robert Byrne, Pal Benko, Larry Evans...
finally found himself in a group of five, tied for second place, behind LevPolugaevsky. A clear second had to be chosen since the top two players would get...
1970 Palma de Mallorca Interzonal, when Fischer played 1.c4 against LevPolugaevsky and Oscar Panno. Gligorić 1972, p. 52 Gligorić 1972, pp. 51–52 D. Marović...
traps in attempting to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. 1958: LevPolugaevsky vs Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Sochi. In one of the most celebrated games...
at Munich 1958, Mikhail Tal and Miguel Najdorf at Leipzig 1960, and LevPolugaevsky at Havana 1966. Campomanes became involved in FIDE as a national delegate...
Korchnoi at Moscow by 5½–2½. In 1973, he tied with Lajos Portisch and LevPolugaevsky for second place at the Petropolis Interzonal, but lost out in the...
who played in the candidate's final match. Next came four players (LevPolugaevsky, Geller, Vasily Smyslov, and Taimanov) who earned the right to play...
London, with the match again held across ten boards. He faced Soviet GM LevPolugaevsky, his former teammate, in three games, winning one and drawing two;...
December to 26 December 1967 in Tbilisi. The tournament was won by LevPolugaevsky and Mikhail Tal. For the first time the Soviet Chess Championship was...
played by Vasily Smyslov on a few occasions, most notably in a win over LevPolugaevsky in the 1961 USSR Championship. That game continued 3...d5 4.exd5 Nxd5...
defeating the Moscow team. In July 2018, he finished third in the LevPolugaevsky Memorial held in Samara. He finished behind winner Alexey Mokshanov...
the top 3 from each qualifying for the Candidates Tournament. Mecking, Polugaevsky, and Hort qualified for the Candidates Tournament. Larsen qualified outright...
chances, and quickly agreed to a draw. In the 1967 USSR Championship, LevPolugaevsky and Mikhail Tal were leading with the same number of points going into...
then surviving a further three-man playoff for two berths against LevPolugaevsky and Efim Geller, at Portorož 1973, by winning outright with 5½/8; however...
December 1968 to 1 February 1969 in Alma-Ata. The tournament was won by LevPolugaevsky who defeats Alexander Zaitsev in a play-off match. The non-attendance...
1981 (with Vlastimil Hort), Ramat Hasharon 1982 and Manila 1982 (with LevPolugaevsky). Lobron's qualification as a Grandmaster took place the same year...
fashion by Tal, who went through the tournament undefeated ahead of Polugaevsky. They were joined in the Candidates Tournament by Adorján, whose better...
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