David Bronstein

Tags: Chess Player.

David Ionovich Bronstein (Russian: Дави́д Ио́нович Бронште́йн; February 19 1924 – December 5 2006) was a Soviet chess grandmaster who narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951. Bronstein was one of the world’s strongest players from the mid-1940s into the mid-1970s and was described by his peers as a creative genius and master of tactics.

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birth date

1924-02-19

birth name

David Ionovich Bronstein

birth place

Soviet Union, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Bila Tserkva

country

Soviet Union

death date

2006-12-05

death place

Belarus, Minsk

individualised GND number

118674323

LCCN Id

n/80/049994

title

Grandmaster (1950)