- Albert Kapengut
Albert Zinovievich Kapengut (born
4 July 1944 ,Kazan ,Tatarstan ) [The Chessgames.com player profile for Kapengut gives a birth year of 1945 with no month or day. The date and place of birth given here is that of Gaige 1987.] is a Sovietchess master. A holder of theInternational Master title, he is best known as a respected teacher, theoretician, writer, and member of the successful student Olympiad teams of the 1960s.Kapengut won several Belarus championships: 1962, 1968, 1969, 1970 (joint), 1976, 1977, and 1978.He finished 10th in his first Soviet Championship in 1971, ahead of many high-calibre masters such as
Anatoly Lein ,Efim Geller ,Rafael Vaganian , andVladimir Tukmakov .He was the coach of GM
Yury Shulman among others. Since 28th of April, 2008 he plays for the US Chess Federation. [ [http://ratings.fide.com/fedchange.phtml?year=2008 FIDE Player transfers ] ]Notes and references
*citation
last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige
year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography
publisher=McFarland
isbn=0-7864-2353-6
page=203External links
*fide|id=13500058|name=Albert Z Kapengut
*chessgames player|id=16907|name=Albert Z Kapengut
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