Ratmir Kholmov

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Ratmir Kholmov
Full name	Ратмир Дмитриевич Холмов
Country	Russia
Born	13 May 1925 Shenkursk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	18 February 2006(2006-02-18) (aged 80) Moscow, Russia
Title	Grandmaster (1960)
Peak rating	2555 (January 1977)
Peak ranking	No. 28 (January 1976)

Ratmir Dmitrievich Kholmov (Russian: Ратмир Дмитриевич Холмов) (13 May 1925 in Shenkursk – 18 February 2006 in Moscow) was a Russian chess Grandmaster. He won many international tournaments in Eastern Europe during his career, and tied for the Soviet Championship title in 1963, but lost the playoff. Kholmov was not well known in the West, since he never competed there during his career peak, being confined to events in socialist countries. His chess results were impressive, so this may have been for security reasons, as Kholmov had been a wartime sailor. But he was one of the strongest Soviet players from the mid-1950s well into the 1970s, and was ranked as high as No. 8 in the world by Chessmetrics.com from August 1960 to March 1961. Kholmov stayed active in competitive chess right to the end of his life, and maintained a high standard of play past the age of 80.