Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player and theoretician (born 1850)

Mikhail Chigorin

Russian chess player (1850–1908)

Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin was a Russian chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times. The last great player of the Romantic chess style, he also served as a major source of inspiration for the "Soviet chess school", which…