Miguel Najdorf, Polish-Argentinian chess player and theoretician (died 1997)

Miguel Najdorf

Polish-Argentine chess player (1910–1997)

Miguel Najdorf was a Polish-Argentine chess grandmaster. Originally from Poland, he was in Argentina when World War II began in 1939, and he stayed and settled there. He was a leading world player in the 1940s and 1950s, and is also known for the Najdorf Variation, one of the…