Alexander Zaitsev (chess player)
Alexander Nikolayevich Zaitsev was a Soviet chess grandmaster. He was born in Vladivostok, Russia and was also an electrical engineer.
Chess career
Zaitsev shared first place at the 1968 USSR Chess Championship in Alma Ata. He eventually took the silver medal after losing the play-off to co-winner Lev Polugaevsky.The website Chessmetrics lists his highest ELO rating as 2661 and his highest world ranking as 21.