Leonid Stein | |
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Full name | Leonid Zakharovich Stein |
Country | Soviet Union |
Born | Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | November 12, 1934
Died | July 4, 1973 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | (aged 38)
Title | Grandmaster (1962) |
Peak rating | 2620 (July 1972) |
Peak ranking | No. 11 (July 1972) |
Leonid Zakharovych Stein (Ukrainian: Леонід Захарович Штейн; November 12, 1934 – July 4, 1973) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster from Ukraine. He won three USSR Chess Championships in the 1960s (1963, 1965, and 1966), and was among the world's top ten players during that era.