GM Vasily Malinin

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Simon Rogers
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GM Vasily Malinin

Post by Simon Rogers » Sat Jul 03, 2021 1:05 am

I am sorry to report that Vasily Borisovich Malinin passed away on 22nd November 2020 at the age of 64, in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Vasily was born on 26th April 1956 in Petrozavodsk,Russia.
He became an International Master in 2001 and before that an International Master of Correspondence in 1998.
He then became a GMC in 2002 and then Grandmaster in 2003.
I believe he was the last USSR Champion, as the following year the country ceased to exist.
On a personal note when our Lancashire junior team visited what was Leningrad back in July 1990, we visited the Saint Petersburg Chess School. We were in groups of 7, which played in simuls against titled players and I am sure he was one of them.
RIP

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