Anatoly Lein
Anatoly Yakovlevich Lein was a Soviet-born American chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1968.
Chess career
awarded Lein the International Master title in 1964 and the Grandmaster title in 1968.Lein finished equal first at Moscow 1970, and won the 1971 Moscow championship after a play-off. He placed first at Cienfuegos 1972, first at Novi Sad 1972 and 1973, and equal first at Grand Manan 1984.
In 1976 Lein emigrated to the United States, finishing equal first with Leonid Shamkovich in the U.S. [Open Chess Championship|U.S. Open], and equal first with Bernard Zuckerman in the World [Open chess tournament|World Open] that year. He also played on the U.S. team in the 1978 Chess Olympiad.
Lein was New Jersey champion from 1992 through 1994. In 2005 he was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame in Miami. He resided in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, until his death in 2018.
Among his notable victims were two world champions, Mikhail Tal and Vassily Smyslov. Lein also scored wins against such world class grandmasters as David Bronstein, Lev Polugaevsky, Leonid Stein, and Mark Taimanov.
A tribute to Lein by Internet Chess Club, in the form of a video, was presented by Joel Benjamin on March 5, 2018.
Notable games
- Ujtumen vs. Lein, Sochi 1965
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.e4 d6 5.h3 g6 6.g3 Bg7 7.Bg2 0-0 8.0-0 Nd7 9.d3 Nc5 10.Be3 Ne6 11.Rb1 a5 12.Qd2 Ncd4 13.Ne2 Nxe2+ 14.Qxe2 f5 15.exf5 gxf5 16.Bd2 Bd7 17.Bc3 Bc6 18.Rbd1 Qf6 19.Rfe1 Rae8 20.b3 f4 21.g4 h5 22.gxh5 Qf7 23.Ba1 Qxh5 24.Kh2 Ng5 25.Nxg5 f3! 26.Nxf3 Bxf3 27.Qf1 Bh6 28.Bxf3 Rxf3 29.Qg2+ Kf7 30.Qg4 Rxh3+! 31.Qxh3 Bf4+ 32.Kg2 Rg8+ 33.Qg3 Rxg3+ 34.fxg3 Qg4 0–1
- Lein vs. Benjamin, U.S. Championship, 1986