Mikhail Umansky
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| Full name | Mikhail Markovich Umansky |
| Country |  Russia |
| Born | January 21, 1952 Stavropol, USSR |
| Died | December 17, 2010 (aged 58) Augsburg, Germany |
Mikhail Markovich Umansky (in Russian Михаил Уманский), born January 21, 1952 in Stavropol, then USSR, was a Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess, who was the 13th ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1989 and 1998. He was also USSR Correspondence Champion in 1978.[1][2]
He might lay claim to being the greatest Correspondence player of all time, since we convincingly won a "champion of champions" tournament, the ICCF 50 Years World Champion Jubilee, a special invitational correspondence tournament involving all living former ICCF World Champions. He scored a superb 7/8 (+6 -0 =2), two points ahead of Gert Jan Timmerman, Fritz Baumbach and Victor Palciauskas. One of his victims was Hans Berliner, who said after his defeat: "It is amazing that Umansky took only 55!! days to play this wonderful game.. I still do not know where I went wrong in that game".[1] See World Champions Jubilee Tournament (2003).
Mikhail died on December 17, 2010 in Augsburg, Germany.
[edit] References
- ^ Mikhail Umansky player profile at ChessGames.com
- ^ Chess life, Volume 60, Issues 7-12 - Page 46. United States Chess Federation - 2005
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| Preceded by Grigory Sanakoev |
World Correspondence Chess Champion 1989–1998 |
Succeeded by Tõnu Õim |
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