Abram Model

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Abram Model (23 October 1896, Daugavpils - 16 February 1976, Leningrad) was a Russian chess master, although he had his master title taken away by the Soviet chess authorities due to lack of results.

Abram Yakovlevich Model was born in Daugavpils, Latvia. Then he lived in St. Petersburg (Petrograd, Leningrad). During the World War II, he won the 18th Championship of Leningrad in 1944. He shared third place in the 1927 USSR Chess Championship.

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• Championship of Leningrad in 1944
• Hartston, William R. (1977), Golombek, Harry, ed., Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Batsford, p. 201, ISBN 0-517-53146-1 
• Soltis, Andrew, ed. (1999), Soviet Chess 1917-1991, McFarland & Company, ISBN 0-7864-0676-3