Abram Iosifovich Khasin (
Russian
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: Абрам Иосифович Хасин; 15 February 1923 – 6 February 2022) was a Russian
chess international master and
correspondence grandmaster.
Biography
Khasin was born in
Zaporizhia
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, and grew up in Ukraine during the 1930s. During
World War II
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, he became a soldier in the
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...
and had both legs amputated after being wounded in the
Battle of Stalingrad. After World War II he worked as an English teacher and chess coach.
Among his students are grandmasters, coaches, journalists, commentators:
Boris Gulko
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,
Evgeny Bareev
Evgeny Ilgizovich Bareev (russian: Евгений Ильгизович Бареев; born 21 November 1966) is a Russian-Canadian chess player and trainer. Awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1989, he was ranked fourth in the FIDE world r ...
,
Leonid Yurtaev,
Yacov Murey,
Natalia Konopleva,
Elena Fatalibekova,
Tamara Minogina, .
From 2002 until his death, he lived in
Essen, Germany with his family. His daughter, Anna Dergacheva, is also an international chess master.
He died in Essen on 6 February 2022, at the age of 98.
Chess career
*Winner of the semi-final of the
1956 USSR Championship, ahead of Averbakh, Simagin, Polugayevsky and Ragozin, 17th place in the final held in Leningrad.
*1st-5th in the semi-final of the
1957 USSR Championship in Leningrad; he scored 7.5 points out of 21 in the final in Moscow (22nd place).
*He also qualified for the final of the
1961 USSR Championship (13th, 8/17) and
1965 USSR Championship (13h, 8.5/17).
*Moscow Championship: 2nd (1963); 3rd (1955), (1957), (1958) and (1961).
*Third tied in the 1963-1964 Hastings tournament won by Mikhaïl Tal ahead of Gligoric;
*Tied for fourth in the Kislovodsk tournament in 1964 (victory for Tal ahead of Stein and Averbakh);
*1st-4th in the Moscow international tournament in 1967;
*Tied for third in the Belgrade tournament in 1968;
*Tied for fifth in the Kislovodsk tournament in 1968, won by Geller8;
*Fourth in the RSFSR (Russia) championship in 1987;
*Sixth at the 1993 Senior World Championship;
*Fourth at the 1995 Senior World Championship.
*Khasin represented the USSR at the International Correspondence Chess Olympics from 1968 to 1987. The USSR won the competition at the 6th, 7th and 8th Correspondence Olympics (1968-1972, 1972-1976 and 1976–1982).
*He finished fourth in the 1975-1980 World Correspondence Championship and sixth in the 1983-1989 World Correspondence Championship.
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1923 births
2022 deaths
Russian amputees
Soviet amputees
21st-century Russian people
Chess International Masters
Correspondence chess grandmasters
Soviet chess players
Russian chess players
Soviet military personnel of World War II
Sportspeople from Zaporizhzhia