Abram Isaakovich Rabinovich (5 January 1878 – 7 November 1943) was a

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player. He was champion of Moscow in 1926. 4th ussr chess championship 1925

Biography

Rabinovich was born in

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(then the

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) into a Litvak family. His parents were Itzik (Isaac) Haimovich and Leia Leibovna Rabinovich, natives of Shnipishek. In 1903, Rabinovich tied for 11-12th places in Kiev (3rd All-Russian Masters' Tournament,

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won). In 1908, he took 19th in Prague ( Oldřich Duras and

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won). In 1909, he tied for 2nd-3rd in Vilna (6th All-Russian Masters' Tournament;

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won). In 1911, he tied for 19th-21st in

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won). In 1912, he took 18th in Vilna (''Hauptturnier'', Karel Hromádka won). During

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, he moved to Moscow. In 1916, he tied for 4th-5th, and was 3rd in 1918. He tied for 5th-7th at the All-Russian Chess Olympiad (retroactively recognised as the first Soviet chess championship) at Moscow 1920. The event was won by

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. In 1924, he finished 12th in the 3rd USSR Championship, won by Efim Bogoljubov, in Moscow. In 1925, he tied for 9th-10th places in Leningrad (4th USSR Championship; Bogoljubov won), and took 4th in the Moscow Championship, won by Aleksandr Sergeyev. In 1926, Rabinovich won the Moscow Championship. The next year, he tied for 7th-9th ( Nikolai Zubarev won). Rabinovich won in Moscow in 1930 and that was his final successful result. Rabinovich died in

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on 7 November 1943.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rabinovich, Abram 1878 births 1943 deaths Chess players from the Russian Empire Soviet chess players Jewish chess players Lithuanian Jews Soviet civilians killed in World War II Russian Jews Deaths by starvation

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