1995 in Chess - Deaths

Deaths

  • Mikhail Botvinnik, leading Soviet Grandmaster and former world chess champion - May 5
  • Lev Polugaevsky, leading Soviet Grandmaster and world championship candidate - August 30
  • Harry Golombek, English Grandmaster, three-time British Champion, chess journalist, writer and World War II codebreaker - January 7
  • Mario Monticelli, Italian chess Grandmaster and three-time national champion - June 30
  • Sir Stuart Milner-Barry, English player, theoretician, writer, former President of the British Chess Federation and World War II codebreaker - March 25
  • Genrikh Kasparyan, Armenian chess player and leading chess problem composer - December 27
  • Gilles Andruet, International Master, former French Champion - August 22
  • Nicolaas Cortlever, Dutch International Master - April 5
  • Dr. Roza Herman, Polish chess master, twice the national Ladies' champion - ?
  • Mario Napolitano, Italian master and leading correspondence chess player - October 31
  • Dr. Miroslav Katetov, Czech mathematician and former Prague chess champion - December 15
  • Pablo Moran, noted Spanish chess journalist and writer - November ?

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