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Mikhail Markovich Umansky (Russian: Михаил Маркович Уманский; January 21, 1952 – December 17, 2010) was a Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess, who was the 13th ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1989 and 1998. He was also USSR Correspondence Champion in 1978.[1][2]

Mikhail Umansky
Full name	Mikhail Markovich Umansky
Country	Soviet Union  Russia
Born	(1952-01-21)January 21, 1952 Stavropol, USSR
Died	December 17, 2010(2010-12-17) (aged 58) Augsburg, Germany
Title	ICCF Grandmaster (1994)
ICCF World Champion	1989–98
ICCF rating	2651 (October 2010)
ICCF peak rating	2701 (July 1996)

Chess biography

Umansky was born in Stavropol, then USSR. He is considered by some to be the greatest correspondence chess player of all time, since he convincingly won a "champion of champions" tournament, the ICCF 50 Years World Champion Jubilee, a special invitational correspondence tournament involving all living former ICCF World Champions. He scored 7/8 (+6 −0 =2), two points ahead of Gert Jan Timmerman, Fritz Baumbach and Victor Palciauskas. One of his victims was Hans Berliner, who said after his defeat: "It is amazing that Umansky took only 55 days to play this wonderful game. I still do not know when I went wrong."[3]

Umansky died on December 17, 2010 in Augsburg, Germany.

In 2011, the Russian Correspondence Chess Association organized in his honor the chess tournament Umansky Memorial, won by the Italian CCGM Eros Riccio.[4]

References

External links

Media related to Mikhail Umansky at Wikimedia Commons

• Mikhail Markovich Umansky player details at ICCF

Preceded by Grigory Sanakoev	World Correspondence Chess Champion 1989–1998	Succeeded by Tõnu Õim

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[ru] Уманский, Михаил Маркович

Михаи́л Ма́ркович Ума́нский (род. 21 января 1952, Ставрополь, Россия — 17 декабря 2010, Аугсбург, Германия) — российский и немецкий шахматист, гроссмейстер ИКЧФ (1995), международный мастер (1997). В последние годы проживал в Германии.

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