Yury Toshev () (24 December 1907 – 19 April 1974) was a Bulgarian

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

master. He thrice won the Bulgarian Chess Championship: 1933 (jointly with Georgy Geshev but lost a play-off match to him), 1942, and 1947 (jointly with Kamen Piskov). He represented Bulgaria in the

3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad The 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad was held by German Chess Federation (''Grossdeutscher Schachbund'') as a counterpart of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with reference to 1924 and 1928 events. Many Jewish chess players took part in the event. Si ...

at Munich 1936. After

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, he twice played for Bulgaria in Balkaniad team tournaments, and won bronze medals at Belgrade 1946 and Sofia 1947."2nd Chess Balkaniad (men): Sofia 1947"
OlimpBase.org. Retrieved December 10, 2011.

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Yury Toshev chess games 365Chess.com
1907 births 1974 deaths 20th-century Bulgarian chess players {{Bulgaria-chess-bio-stub