Albert Kapengut
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Albert Zinovievich Kapengut (born 4 July 1944, Kazan, Tatarstan)[1] is a Soviet chess master. A holder of the International Master title, he is best known as a respected teacher, theoretician, writer, and member of the successful student Olympiad teams of the 1960s.
Kapengut won several Belarus championships: 1962, 1968, 1969, 1970 (joint), 1976, 1977, and 1978. He finished 10th in his first Soviet Championship in 1971, ahead of many high-calibre masters such as Anatoly Lein, Efim Geller, Rafael Vaganian, and Vladimir Tukmakov.
He was the coach of GM Yury Shulman among others.
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ The Chessgames.com player profile for Kapengut gives a birth year of 1945 with no month or day. The date and place of birth given here is that of Gaige 1987.
- Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McFarland, p. 203, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6
[edit] External links
- FIDE rating card for Albert Z Kapengut
- Albert Z Kapengut at ChessGames.com
