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    Gennadi "Genna" Sosonko (Russian: Геннадий Борисович Сосонко, Gennady Borisovich Sosonko; born 18 May 1943) is a Dutch chess grandmaster and writer. He...
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    win the event, becoming the fourth Dutch player since 1968 (after Gennadi Sosonko, Jan Timman, and Jorden van Foreest), and 14th Dutch player overall...
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    born in Riga, Latvia, into a Jewish family. According to his friend Gennadi Sosonko, his true father was a family friend identified only as "Uncle Robert";...
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  • conflicts included: The defection of grandmaster Gennadi Sosonko in 1972. The Soviets demanded that Sosonko be excluded from competitive chess, television...
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     Ljubomir Ljubojević (Yugoslavia)  Friðrik Ólafsson (Iceland) 39 1977  Gennadi Sosonko (Netherlands)  Efim Geller (Soviet Union) 40 1978  Lajos Portisch (Hungary)...
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    he won by a commanding score. The defection of Gennadi Sosonko in 1972. The Soviets demanded that Sosonko should be treated as an "unperson", excluded from...
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    Tarjan, William Lombardy, Kim Commons  Netherlands 36½ Jan Timman, Gennadi Sosonko, Jan Hein Donner, Hans Ree, Gert Ligterink, Franciscus Kuijpers  England...
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    Hort (Czechoslovakia) 2560 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ - ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 1 9 66.25 7  Gennadi Sosonko (Netherlands) 2535 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ - ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 9 63.25 8  Maxim...
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    Smejkal (Czechoslovakia) 2615 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ - 0 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 10 12  Gennadi Sosonko (Netherlands) 2505 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 - ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 9½ 13  Vladimir...
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    Ashkenazy, Boris Berezovsky, and Maxim Vengerov (United Kingdom), Gennadi Sosonko (Netherlands), Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland), and Maya Plisetskaya...
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  • Psakhis Abram Rabinovich Ilya Rabinovich Leonid Shamkovich Ilya Smirin Gennadi Sosonko Leonid Stein Peter Svidler Mark Taimanov Boris Verlinsky Yakov Vilner...
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  • Variation have included strong positional players such as Viktor Korchnoi, Gennadi Sosonko and Predrag Nikolić, and after a recommendation by the influential...
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    and Petrosian), clear first at Las Palmas 1976, equal first with Gennadi Sosonko at Wijk aan Zee 1977, clear first at Bogotá 1978, equal first at Bern...
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    5 10  Vasily Smyslov (Soviet Union) ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ ½ 4½ 11  Gennadi Sosonko (Netherlands) ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 4 12  Fridrik Olafsson (Iceland)...
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  • Waddinxveen 1. Anatoly Karpov, 2. Lubomir Kavalek, 3. Vlastimil Hort, 4. Gennadi Sosonko 1980 Puerto Madryn 1–2. Tony Miles, Ljubomir Ljubojević, 3. Oscar Panno...
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    Miles (England) 2565 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 Does not appear ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 7 2584 5–6 7  Gennadi Sosonko (Netherlands) 2530 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ Does not appear ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 6½ 2558...
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    Wiel (Netherlands) 2515 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 Does not appear ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 6½ 2560 5–9 10  Gennadi Sosonko (Netherlands) 2560 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ Does not appear ½ ½ ½ ½ 6 2528...
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    participant. The tournament was won jointly by Gennadi Sosonko (Netherlands) and Jan Timman, both with 8/12. Sosonko was also the only player to go unbeaten...
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    Hodgson (England) 2480 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ Does not appear 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 0 1 1 7 2572 6–7 7  Gennadi Sosonko (Netherlands) 2525 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 Does not appear ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 7 2569...
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  •  China  Netherlands Ivan Sokolov  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Netherlands Gennadi Sosonko  Soviet Union  Netherlands Erika Sziva  Hungary  Netherlands Hiong...
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  • Lautier (France) 12 29 1992  Oleg Romanishin (Ukraine) 12 30 1993  Gennadi Sosonko (Netherlands) 12 31 1994  Evgeny Mochalov (Belarus) Open 32 1995  Veselin...
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    Guðmundur Sigurjónsson Guðmundur (left) vs. Gennadi Sosonko (Hoogovens 1977) Country Iceland Born 25 September 1947 (1947-09-25) (age 76) Reykjavík, Iceland...
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  • Gennadi Sosonko, Tony Miles, Nigel Short, Jonathan Speelman, Gyula Sax, Michael Stean, John Nunn. Result: Miles, Korchnoi, Andersson 8.5/13, Sosonko,...
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    Hansen (Denmark) 2560 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ Does not appear ½ ½ ½ 1 6 2544 8–10 11  Gennadi Sosonko (Netherlands) 2535 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ Does not appear ½ ½ ½ 5½ 2518...
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  • (Buchholz scoring system) Board 1: Jan Timman 8½ / 11 = 77.3% Board 2: Gennadi Sosonko 6 / 8 = 75.0% Board 3: Marcelo Carrión 9 / 11 = 81.8% Board 4: Michael...
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  • Three grandmasters tied for second with 6½–2½: Yasser Seirawan (USA), Gennadi Sosonko (Netherlands), and Svetozar Gligorić (Yugoslavia). The tournament included...
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    from the original on 3 December 2008. Retrieved 16 September 2008. Sosonko, Gennadi (2001). "Remembering Max Euwe Part 1" (PDF). The Chess Cafe. Archived...
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  • Dutch chess player and writer 14 April – Ivan Nemet, Swiss GM 18 May – Gennadi Sosonko in Troitsk, Dutch GM 4 July – Orestes Rodriguez Vargas, Spanish GM...
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    their debuts, such as Lev Alburt, Mark Dvoretsky, Boris Gulko, Gennady Sosonko, Evgeny Sveshnikov and Rafael Vaganian. This is all the information available...
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    Russian). 13 August 2009. Archived from the original on 1 December 2019. Sosonko, Gennadi (2013). The World Champions I Knew. New In Chess. p. 235. ISBN 9789056914844...
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