Mikhail Umansky

Mikhail Umansky
Full name	Mikhail Markovich Umansky
Country	Russia
Born	January 21, 1952(1952-01-21) Stavropol, USSR
Died	December 17, 2010(2010-12-17) (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: "t 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.

References

1. ^ Mikhail Umansky player profile at ChessGames.com
2. ^ Chess life, Volume 60, Issues 7-12‎ - Page 46. United States Chess Federation - 2005

External links

• Personal page

• Preceded by Grigory Sanakoev

  World Correspondence Chess Champion 1989–1998

  Succeeded by Tõnu Õim

  Persondata
  Name	Umansky, Mikhail
  Alternative names
  Short description
  Date of birth	January 21, 1952
  Place of birth	Stavropol, USSR
  Date of death	December 17, 2010
  Place of death	Augsburg