Houshang (Yaakov, Yaacov) Mashian ( fa, هوشنگ (یاکوف) مشیان, born 17 December 1938) is an Iranian-Israeli

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master. Mashian won

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in 1958 and represented Iran in

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: at Munich 1958, Tel Aviv 1964 and Siegen 1970. He took 14th at Reggio Emilia 1970/71, an event won by

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. Mashian emigrated to Israel in the middle of the 1970s. In the

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at Tel Aviv 1980, he lost to Yedael Stepak after 24 hours and 30 minutes, consisting of 193 moves, in the world's longest decisive chess game as well as the world's longest in time.

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Arsalan Geula. Arsalan and Fereidon Geula: Chess Playing Brothers. 2009. 1938 births Living people Iranian Jews Iranian chess players Israeli chess players Jewish chess players Israeli Jews {{Iran-chess-bio-stub