Both Sides of the Chessboard: An Analysis of the Fischer/Spassky Chess Match, Hardcover Edition.
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Robert Byrne was born in Brooklyn, New York on April 20, 1928. He was the 1972 U.S. Chess Champion. He was also The New York Times chess columnist. He became an international master in 1952 and a grandmaster in 1964. Byrne won third prize at the 1973 Leningrad Interzonal, which qualified him for the Candidates Matches. A graduate of Yale, Byrne was an Honorary Director of the Manhattan Chess Club as well as an International Best Games Judge. Robert Byrne died in Ossining New York on April 12, 2013. IVO NEI won the junior chess championship of the Soviet Union in 1948. He has been national chess champion of Estonia six times. He became an international master in 1964, winning the Beverwijk International Tournament ahead of 8 grandmasters, including Bent Larsen and Lajos Portisch. In the Tallinn International Tournament, 1969, he shared second place with Paul Keres. A physicist by profession, he is director of a chess school in Tallinn. He has been the trainer and the second to Nona Gaprindashvili, women's world chess champion. He was trainer of the Soviet Team in the European Championship in Austria, 1970. In the 1972 World Championship Match, he was one of Spassky's seconds. He resides in Tallinn, Estonia with his wife.
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