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Pan Inspector: A Chess Biography of Yuri Sakharov Plastic Chess Pieces Chess Pieces for Schools and Clubs some of Fischer’s games willYuri Sakharov (1922 1981) was a leading Ukrainian chess player and coach from the 1950s until his death, ranked the world number 17 in 1968 according to Chessmetrics. Although little known in the West as he rarely played outside the Soviet Union, he qualified for six Soviet championship finals, with a highest position of joint sixth in 1967. Sakharov won the Ukrainian Championship twice and deployed many opening novelties in his time. As he aged he