Taimanov Attack And Other Lines
Taimanov (russian: Тайманов) is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Taimanova. It may refer to * Iskander Taimanov (born 1961), Russian mathematician * Mark Taimanov Mark Evgenievich Taimanov (russian: Марк Евгеньевич Тайманов; 7 February 1926 – 28 November 2016) was one of the leading Soviet and Russian chess players, among the world's top 20 players from 1946 to 1971. A prolific ch ... (1926–2016), Russian chess Grandmaster and concert pianist See also * Taimanov Variation, various chess openings used by Mark Taimanov {{surname Russian-language surnames ...
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Iskander Taimanov
Iskander Asanovich Taimanov (born 20 December 1961, ''Искандер Асанович Тайманов'') is a Russian mathematician whose research concerns geometry, calculus of variations, and soliton theory. He is the chair of the department of geometry and topology of Novosibirsk State University. He is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was a Ph.D. student of Sergey Petrovich Novikov. Some topics of his work are Morse–Novikov theory and Willmore surface In differential geometry, the Willmore energy is a quantitative measure of how much a given surface deviates from a round sphere. Mathematically, the Willmore energy of a smooth closed surface embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space is d ...s. He is the author of the textbook ''Lectures on Differential Geometry''. References External linksPage at Novosibirsk State University* {{DEFAULTSORT:Taimanov, Iskander 20th-century Russian mathematicians 21st-century Russian mathematicians Mosc ...
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Mark Taimanov
Mark Evgenievich Taimanov (russian: Марк Евгеньевич Тайманов; 7 February 1926 – 28 November 2016) was one of the leading Soviet and Russian chess players, among the world's top 20 players from 1946 to 1971. A prolific chess author, Taimanov was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 1952 and in 1956 won the USSR Chess Championship. He was a World Championship Candidate in 1953 and 1971, and several opening variations are named after him. Taimanov was also a world-class concert pianist. Early life Taimanov was born in Kharkiv, where his parents studied at the time. They moved to Leningrad when he was six months old. His father Evgeny Zakharovich Taimanov was Jewish; his family escaped to Kharkiv from Smolensk during World War I. Evgeny was a student at the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute and later made a career as a head engineer at the Kirov Plant and the Hydraulic Plant, but left it to work as an engineer at the Leningrad Conservatory and various Leningr ...
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Taimanov Variation
The Taimanov Variation can refer to variations of four different chess openings, all named after Mark Taimanov: *In the Sicilian Defense, 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 *In the Nimzo-Indian Defense, 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 Nc6 *In the Modern Benoni, 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.e4 g6 7.f4 Bg7 8.Bb5+ *In the Grünfeld Defense Grünfeld, Grunfeld, or Gruenfeld may refer to: People * Deborah H. Gruenfeld, American social psychologist * Yehuda Gruenfeld (born 1956), Israeli chess Grandmaster * A. Tom Grunfeld (born 1946), SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at Empire Sta ...