Early Life
Isaac Lipnitsky was a childhood companion and chess rival of David Bronstein in Kiev. In Bronstein's acclaimed 1995 book, co-authored with Tom Furstenberg, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Bronstein and Lipnitsky are pictured together in a group photo from the Kiev Junior Chess Club in 1939, and Bronstein includes an early drawn game from 1938 against Lipnitsky in his collection.
Lipnitsky qualified for his first Ukrainian Championship in 1939 at Dnepropetrovsk at age 16, and he made a very creditable 7th place, with 8/15 (+5 =6 -4), half a point ahead of Bronstein, who was also making his debut at age 15. The Second World War then suspended most chess competition in the USSR for the next half-dozen years. Lipnitsky served in the Soviet Red Army, fought in the Battle of Stalingrad, and was decorated four times.
Lipnitsky's first result of note after the war in high-level competition was a tie for 5th-8th places in the 1948 Ukrainian Championship at Kiev with 11/18, only half a point behind winner Anatoly Bannik, another childhood rival from the Kiev Junior Chess Club. In a tournament at Kharkov 1948, Lipnitsky scored 7.5/15, to place 11th.
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