Abram Solomonovich Gurvich (

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Абра́м Соломо́нович Гу́рвич) was a Russian

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of chess

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. He was born in

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on February 11, 1897, worked as literature and theatrical reviewer. His first chess study was published in 1926. Gurvich composed more than 100

. Died in

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on November 18, 1962. At the end of the 1940s he was one of the main targets of the so-called campaign against the "

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s".

A study by Abram Gurvich

Solution: 1. Nb6-d7 Bc7!
: (1…Bf4 2. Kg4 and 3. Kf5; if 1… Ba7, then 2. Ne5! Kg7 3. Bb2!) 2. Nd7-f8 Bc7-e5!
3. Kh3-g4! Be5-b2!
4. Ba3-c5! Bb2-d4!
5. g6-g7!! K:g7 (5... B:g7 6. Be3 mate)
6. Nf8-e6+

Works

* ''Этюды'' (''Chess Studies'', Russian), Moscow, 1961.

External links

From Anti-Westernism to Anti-Semitism

(from "Pravda", 28 January 1949) 1897 births 1962 deaths Chess composers Soviet literary historians Soviet male writers 20th-century male writers 20th-century chess players {{Russia-chess-bio-stub