Albert Kapengut

Albert Zinovievich Kapengut (born 4 July 1944, Kazan, Tatarstan) [The Chessgames.com player profile for Kapengut gives a birth year of 1945 with no month or day. The date and place of birth given here is that of Gaige 1987.] is a Soviet chess master. A holder of the International Master title, he is best known as a respected teacher, theoretician, writer, and member of the successful student Olympiad teams of the 1960s.

Kapengut won several Belarus championships: 1962, 1968, 1969, 1970 (joint), 1976, 1977, and 1978.He finished 10th in his first Soviet Championship in 1971, ahead of many high-calibre masters such as Anatoly Lein, Efim Geller, Rafael Vaganian, and Vladimir Tukmakov.

He was the coach of GM Yury Shulman among others. Since 28th of April, 2008 he plays for the US Chess Federation. [ [http://ratings.fide.com/fedchange.phtml?year=2008 FIDE Player transfers ] ]

Notes and references

*citation
last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige
year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography
publisher=McFarland
isbn=0-7864-2353-6
page=203

External links

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