Gennadi "Genna" Borisovich Sosonko (Russian: Геннадий Борисович Сосонко, Gennady Borisovich Sosonko; born 18 May 1943) is a Russian-born Dutch chess grandmaster...
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born in Riga, Latvia, into a Jewish family. According to his friend Gennadi Sosonko, his true father was a family friend identified only as "Uncle Robert";...
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win the event, becoming the fourth Dutch player since 1968 (after Gennadi Sosonko, Jan Timman, and Jorden van Foreest), and 14th Dutch player overall...
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conflicts included: The defection of grandmaster Gennadi Sosonko in 1972. The Soviets demanded that Sosonko be excluded from competitive chess, television...
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Ljubomir Ljubojević (Yugoslavia) Friðrik Ólafsson (Iceland) 39 1977 Gennadi Sosonko (Netherlands) Efim Geller (Soviet Union) 40 1978 Lajos Portisch (Hungary)...
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he won by a commanding score. The defection of Gennadi Sosonko in 1972. The Soviets demanded that Sosonko should be treated as an "unperson", excluded from...
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Tarjan, William Lombardy, Kim Commons Netherlands 36½ Jan Timman, Gennadi Sosonko, Jan Hein Donner, Hans Ree, Gert Ligterink, Franciscus Kuijpers England...
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Ashkenazy, Boris Berezovsky, and Maxim Vengerov (United Kingdom), Gennadi Sosonko (Netherlands), Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland), and Maya Plisetskaya...
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Psakhis Abram Rabinovich Ilya Rabinovich Leonid Shamkovich Ilya Smirin Gennadi Sosonko Leonid Stein Peter Svidler Mark Taimanov Boris Verlinsky Yakov Vilner...
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Variation have included strong positional players such as Viktor Korchnoi, Gennadi Sosonko and Predrag Nikolić, and after a recommendation by the influential...
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