Yakov Estrin

Yakov Estrin

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birthname=Yakov Borisovich Estrin
country=RUS
datebirth=birth date|1923|4|21
placebirth=Moscow, Russia
datedeath=death date and age|1987|2|2|1923|4|21
placedeath=Moscow, Russia
title=Grandmaster
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Yakov Borisovich Estrin (April 21, 1923 – February 2, 1987) was a Russian chess Grandmaster, theoretician, and writer.

After a brief foray into "over-the-board" play, he turned to correspondence chess in the early 1960s with immediate success (joint first place in the U.S.S.R. Correspondence Championship in 1962.) He became an ICCGM (International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster) in 1966, and would go on to compete in the final of the World Correspondence Championship five times. He is best known for being the seventh International Correspondence Chess Federation world champion between 1972 and 1976.

In 1984, he was awarded the over-the-board Grandmaster title.

Estrin wrote several chess books and was an authority on the Two Knights Defense. His game with Hans Berliner in which Berliner played the Two Knights Defense and defeated Estrin is one of the most famous and important games in correspondence chess. [Citation
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title=The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games
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Books

* "The Two Knights Defence", by Yakov Estrin, Chess Ltd., 1970. (no ISBN or LOC number)
* "The Two Knights Defence" (1983) by Yakov Estrin, B.T.Batsford Ltd. ISBN 0-7134-3991-2.
* "Three Double King Pawn Openings" by Yakov Estrin, Chess Enterprises; first edition (June 1982). ISBN 0-9314-6219-3
* "Gambits" by Yakov B. Estrin, Chess Enterprises (June 1983). ISBN 0-9314-6220-7
* "The United States Correspondence Chess Championship" by Yakov Estrin, Correspondence Chess League of America (1978)
* "Wilkes-Barre Variation, Two Knights Defense" by Yakov Estrin, Chess Enterprises (June 1978). ISBN 0-9314-6200-2
* "Comprehensive Chess Openings", by Yakov Estrin and Vasily Panov, in three volumes, Pergamon, 1980. ISBN 0-08-024113-1 (for set of three volumes in flexicover)

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