About Abram Gurvich
Lived 1897 – 1962 (aged 65). Abram Gurvich was a Russian chess composer, theatre critic, chess player, literary historian and literary critic.
Abram Solomonovich Gurvich (Russian Абра́м Соломо́нович Гу́рвич) was a Russian composer of chess endgame studies. He was born in Baku on February 11, 1897, and worked as a literature and theatre reviewer. His first chess study was published in 1926. Gurvich composed more than 100 endgame studies. He died in Moscow on November 18, 1962. At the end of the 1940s, he was one of the main targets of the so-called campaign against the "rootless cosmopolitans".
A study by Abram Gurvich
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Works Этюды (Chess Studies, Russian), Moscow, 1961.
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Who was Abram Gurvich?
Russian chess composer (1897-1962)
When was Abram Gurvich born?
Abram Gurvich was born on 11 February 1897 in Baku.
When did Abram Gurvich die?
Abram Gurvich died on 18 November 1962 in Moscow.
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Abram Gurvich was a chess composer, theatre critic, chess player, literary historian and literary critic.
What nationality was Abram Gurvich?
Abram Gurvich was Russian.
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