Grigory Konstantinovich Sanakoev (17 April 1935 – 8 October 2021) was a Russian

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

player who held the

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of International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster. He was the twelfth

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(1984–1991) and finished in third place at the "Hans-Werner von Massow Memorial" tournament (1996–2002). Sanakoev is also the author of a book on

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titled ''World Champion at the Third Attempt''.

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