About Yury Toshev
Lived 1907 – 1974 (aged 66). Yury Toshev was a Bulgarian chess player.
Yury Toshev (24 December 1907 – 19 April 1974) was a Bulgarian chess master.
He thrice won the Bulgarian Chess Championship: 1933 (jointly with Georgy Geshev but lost a play-off match to him), 1942, and 1947 (jointly with Kamen Piskov).
He represented Bulgaria in the 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936. After World War II, he twice played for Bulgaria in Balkaniad team tournaments, and won bronze medals at Belgrade 1946 and Sofia 1947.
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Who was Yury Toshev?
chess player (1907-1974)
When was Yury Toshev born?
Yury Toshev was born on 24 December 1907 in Sofia.
When did Yury Toshev die?
Yury Toshev died on 19 April 1974 in Plovdiv.
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Yury Toshev was a chess player.
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Yury Toshev was Bulgarian.
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