Biography
Igor V. Platonov was born in 1934 in Odessa, in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the USSR. Before he started to be interested in chess, he was an engineer. In 1958, at age 24, he started to play in tournaments. He was active between 1958–1984, when he became a chess trainer. Platonov is also said to be a philatelist, however this is unclear. On November 13, 1994, he was murdered in his Kiev apartment by two thieves. The identities of killers are not known.
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