N. Kopelman (Koppelman) (1881 ? – 1944,

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player. He participated in the

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. After the declaration of war against Russia, eleven "Russian" players (

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, Bogoljubov, Bogatyrchuk, Flamberg, Koppelman, Maliutin, Rabinovich,

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, Saburov, Selezniev,

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. He took 7th at St. Petersburg 1915 (

Alexander Ilyin-Zhenevsky Alexander Fyodorovich Ilyin (russian: Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Ильи́н-Жене́вский; November 28, 1894 – September 3, 1941), known with the party name Zhenevsky, "the Genevan" because he joined the Bolshevik group of ...

and Golubev won), and took 8th at Moscow 1920 ( All-Russian Chess Olympiad, elim.,

Alexei Alekhine Alexei (Alexey) Alekhine (russian: Алексе́й Алекса́ндрович Але́хин, ''Alekséy Aleksándrovich Alékhin'', 1888–1939) was a chess master and the brother of World Chess Champion Alexander Alekhine. He was a national o ...

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Russian Jews Chess players from the Russian Empire Jewish chess players Year of birth uncertain 1944 deaths {{russia-chess-bio-stub