David Bronstein, Ukrainian-Belarusian chess player and theoretician (born 1924)

David Bronstein

Soviet chess grandmaster (1924–2006)

David Ionovich Bronstein was a Soviet and Russian chess player. Awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in 1950, he narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951. Bronstein was one of the world's strongest players from the mid-1940s into the mid-1970s, and…