Boris Verlinsky
Boris Markovich Verlinsky (8 January 1888, Bakhmut, Ukraine – 30 October 1950, Moscow, Russia) was a Ukrainian-Russian International Master of chess. He was one of the top Soviet players of the 1920s. Verlinsky was deaf as a result of Meningitis as a youngster.
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