Welcome! Check out today's birthdays, recent birthdays, or our birthday stats.

Yuri Averbakh

Russian chess player and author (1922-2022).

Born February 8th, 1922 in Kaluga. [ref]

Died May 7th, 2022 at 100 years old in Moscow. [ref]

Occupations
chess composer, chess player, chess theoretician, non-fiction writer
Wikipedia

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca