Mikhail Chigorin
Russian chess player
Died when: 57 years 73 days (686 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also Tchigorin;Russian: ?????´? ???´????? ????´???; 12 November [O.S. 31 October] 1850 – 25 January [O.S. 12 January] 1908) was a Russian chess player.He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times.
The last great player of the Romantic chess style, he also served as a major source of inspiration for the "Soviet chess school", which dominated the chess world in the middle and latter parts of the 20th century.
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