Leonid Nikolayevich Yurtaev (3 April 1959, Frunze – 2 June 2011) was a

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player. In 1986 he was awarded the FIDE title of International Master (IM) and in 1996 he became the first Kyrgyz player to receive the Grandmaster (GM) title. He was noted as a tactician, and in particular as a specialist in the King's Indian Defence. He defeated a number of strong grandmasters during his career, including Mikhail Tal,

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and Garry Kasparov, but he was not particularly successful in tournaments. According to the Chessmetrics web site, his best tournament performance was at the 1987 Armed Forces championship in Sverdlovsk, which he won with

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with a score of 7/8. He qualified for the final

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in 1991, finishing in shared 23rd place. In 2007 Yurtaev won the 1st

Georgy Agzamov Georgy Tadzhikhanovich Agzamov (September 6, 1954, Tashkent – August 27, 1986, Sevastopol) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster, the first from Central Asia. He became an International Master in 1982 and was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1984. ...

Memorial held in

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on tiebreak over

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and Sergey Kayumov. He represented Kyrgyzstan at seven

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in 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2006 and 2008. In 2008, he was a reserve player but didn't play a game.

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