Rafael Artemovich Vaganian (Armenian: Ռաֆայել Արտյոմի Վահանյան, Rrafayel Artyomi Vahanyan, Russian: Рафаэль Артёмович Ваганян, Rafael Artemovich Vaganyan;...
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Rafael Vaganian. Mikhail Tal, the 51-year-old former World Champion, breezed through the final rounds with 5½/6. Joining him in the finals was Rafael...
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Alexander Beliavsky 2655 1988-07 11 Ljubomir Ljubojević 2645 1983-01 Rafael Vaganian 2645 1986-01 Andrei Sokolov 2645 1987-01 Jonathan Speelman 2645 1988-07...
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Tigran Petrosian, Lev Polugaevsky, Boris Gulko, Oleg Romanishin, Rafael Vaganian United States 35 Lubomir Kavalek, Walter Browne, Anatoly Lein, Robert...
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enriched by players from that country, the most notable of whom is Rafael Vaganian. Black maintains the pin on the knight, which White usually tries to...
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avoid capture, White can take the rook. Short vs. Vaganian In the game Nigel Short–Rafael Vaganian, Barcelona 1989, White sacrifices a bishop to win a...
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including three grandmasters: Rafael Vaganian, Smbat Lputian, and Arshak Petrosian. In the late Soviet period, Rafael Vaganian (1989) and Artashes Minasian...
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champion, and ex-champion Anatoly Karpov. In the final, he defeated Rafael Vaganian by 3½–½. On 28 May 1992, at the Moscow blitz tournament (which he left...
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Tal Rafael Vaganian Linares Boris Spassky Niksic Garry Kasparov Tilburg Anatoly Karpov USSR Chess Championship Moscow 1984 Lvov Rafael Vaganian Iossif...
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Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Tigran Petrosian, Leonid Stein, Rafael Vaganian, Ljubomir Ljubojevic, Gregory Kaidanov, Igor Glek, Alexander Morozevich...
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