Mikhail Umansky
Mikhail Markovich Umansky (Russian: Михаил Маркович Уманский; January 21, 1952 – December 17, 2010) was a Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess, who was the 13th ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1989 and 1998. He was also USSR Correspondence Champion in 1978.[1][2]
| Mikhail Umansky | |
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| Full name | Mikhail Markovich Umansky |
| Country |  Soviet Union Russia |
| Born | January 21, 1952 Stavropol, USSR |
| Died | December 17, 2010 (aged 58) Augsburg, Germany |
| Title | ICCF Grandmaster (1994) |
| ICCF World Champion | 1989–98 |
| ICCF rating | 2651 (October 2010) |
| ICCF peak rating | 2701 (July 1996) |
Chess biography
Umansky was born in Stavropol, then USSR and at the age of 16, he tied for first in the USSR junior chess championship. He is considered by some to be the greatest correspondence chess player of all time, since he convincingly won a "champion of champions" tournament, the ICCF 50 Years World Champion Jubilee, a special invitational correspondence tournament involving all living former ICCF World Champions. He scored 7/8 (+6 −0 =2), two points ahead of Gert Jan Timmerman, Fritz Baumbach and Victor Palciauskas. One of his victims was Hans Berliner, who said after his defeat: "It is amazing that Umansky took only 55 days to play this wonderful game. I still do not know when I went wrong."[3]
Umansky died on December 17, 2010 in Augsburg, Germany.
In 2011, the Russian Correspondence Chess Association organized in his honor the chess tournament Umansky Memorial, won by the Italian CCGM Eros Riccio.[4]
References
- Mikhail Umansky player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Chess life Volume 60, Issues 7–12, p. 46, United States Chess Federation – 2005
- Book review of "50 Golden Chess Games: More Masterpieces of Correspondence Chess by Tim Harding"
- Umansky Memorial
External links
Media related to Mikhail Umansky at Wikimedia Commons
- Mikhail Markovich Umansky player details at ICCF