Monday, October 2, 2017

The Last Sunday

Honourary Professor of Russian Philology at the University of Tartu, Estonia and literary critic Larisa Ilinichna Volpert died on Sunday, October 1, in New York, United States at 92 years of age – she was born in Leningrad, Russia on March 30, 1926.
As a chess player, Mrs. Volpert earned the Woman Grandmaster title in 1977, and was three times USSR Women’s Chess Champion (1954, 1958, and 1959).

Larisa Ilinichna Volpert
Photo: Eesti Rahvusringhääling (ERR)

Larisa Ilinichna Volpert – Milunka Lazarević
Match Leningrad – Belgrade; Leningrad, August 19, 1964
Dutch Defence A97

1. d4 f5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 e6 4. Nf3 d6 5. c4 Be7 6. 0-0 0-0 7. Nc3 Qe8 8. Re1 Qh5 9. b4 Ne4 10. Qb3 c5 11. bxc5 dxc5 12. Be3 Nxc3 13. Qxc3 Nc6 14. Rab1 Bf6


15. Ne5 Rd8 16. Nxc6 bxc6 17. Qa5 cxd4 18. Bxd4 Rxd4 19. Bxc6 Bb7 20. Bxb7 Rad8 21. Bf3 Qh6 22. c5 Bg5 23. e3 Rd2 24. c6 Rc2 25. c7 Rf8 26. Rb8 1 : 0.

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