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Oct 31, 1850 Gatchina, Russia Died on 12 Jan 1908 (aged 57)
Russian chess player
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About Mikhail Chigorin
- Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also Tchigorin; Russian: ?????´? ???´????? ????´???; 12 November [O.S.
- 31 October] 1850 – 25 January [O.S.
- 12 January] 1908) was a leading Russian Empire 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.
