Boris Katalymov ( or ''Katalimov''; 13 June 1932 – 1 February 2013) was a Soviet (Ukrainian) and later

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player. He spent in youth in Lviv playing in the same junior tournaments and for the same junior team as legendary Leonid Stein. He was awarded the title of

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in 1996. Katalymov was multiple times champion of Kazakhstan. He took the silver medal in the 1995

World Senior Chess Championship The World Senior Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament established in 1991 by FIDE, the World Chess Federation. The 2024 tournament took place in Porto Santo, Portugal from November 16–29, 2024. Overview Originally, the minimum age w ...

, held in

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, Germany. The Katalymov Variation of the

Sicilian Defence The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the following moves: :1. e4 c5 The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4. The opening 1.d4 is a statistically more successful opening for Whi ...

is named after him.. Boris Nikolaevich spent his later years teaching chess to young children and teenagers at the 'School Palace' in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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* * * 1932 births 2013 deaths Kazakhstani chess players Soviet chess players Chess International Masters {{Kazakhstan-chess-bio-stub