Mikhail Chigorin

Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (October 31 [12 November] 1850, Gatchina (according to other sources - St. Petersburg) - January 12 [25], 1908, Lublin) - Russian chess player, the strongest chess player in Russia at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. The first Russian chess player to take part in a match for the title of world champion

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