| Akiba Rubinstein | |
|---|---|
 Rubinstein c. 1907/1908 | |
| Full name | Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein |
| Country | Russian Empire (1880-1917) → Poland (1918-1926) Belgium (1926-61) |
| Born | 1 December 1880 Stawiski, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (now Poland) |
| Died | 14 March 1961 (aged 80) Antwerp, Belgium |
| Title | Grandmaster (1950) |
Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880[1] – 14 March 1961[2]) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion.[3] Rubinstein was granted the title International Grandmaster in 1950, at its inauguration.
In his youth, he defeated top players José Raúl Capablanca and Carl Schlechter and was scheduled to play a match with Emanuel Lasker for the World Chess Championship in 1914, but it was cancelled due to the outbreak of World War I. He was unable to re-create consistently the same form after the war, and his later life was plagued by mental illness.
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- ^ "Rubinstein-Alekhine, Karlsbad 1911". ChessBase. 12 January 2010.