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Alla Kushnir
A Kushnir 
 

Number of games in database: 302
Years covered: 1959 to 1978
Highest rating achieved in database: 2430
Overall record: +135 -78 =89 (59.4%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 King's Indian (25) 
    E69 E60 E73 E63 E62
 English (15) 
    A15 A13 A16 A14 A19
 Queen's Pawn Game (14) 
    A40 A46 D02 E00
 English, 1 c4 c5 (12) 
    A30 A37 A38 A35
 Grunfeld (12) 
    D87 D93 D86 D79 D85
 Reti System (10) 
    A04 A05
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (38) 
    B83 B40 B44 B22 B45
 Ruy Lopez (25) 
    C62 C75 C84 C92 C77
 Caro-Kann (14) 
    B16 B17 B10 B15 B14
 Sicilian Scheveningen (11) 
    B83 B82 B80 B81
 Ruy Lopez, Closed (10) 
    C92 C84 C86 C87 C91
 Alekhine's Defense (10) 
    B02 B03 B05 B04
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   A Kushnir vs N Gaprindashvili, 1972 1-0
   A Kushnir vs Evans, 1975 1-0
   A Kushnir vs N Gaprindashvili, 1972 1-0
   A Kushnir vs N Gaprindashvili, 1972 1/2-1/2
   A Kushnir vs N Gaprindashvili, 1972 1/2-1/2
   R Haring vs A Kushnir, 1976 0-1
   N Gaprindashvili vs A Kushnir, 1972 1/2-1/2
   A Kushnir vs J Bellin, 1972 1-0
   A Kushnir vs I Bilek, 1975 1-0
   N Gaprindashvili vs A Kushnir, 1965 0-1

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Candidates Tournament (Women) (1964)
   URS-YUG (Women) (1970)
   12th Soviet Team Championship Final-A (1972)
   Subotica Candidates (Women) (1967)
   Moscow (Women) (1971)
   YUG-URS (Women) (1967)
   Belgrade (Women) (1968)
   Roosendaal Interzonal (Women) (1976)
   Haifa Olympiad (Women) Final-A (1976)
   Candidates Final (Women) (1978)
   Lublin Olympiad (Women) (1969)
   12th Soviet Team Championship qual-2 (1972)
   Yugoslavia - Soviet Union (1963)
   Lone Pine (1975)
   6th Soviet Team Cup (1968)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   1976 Roosendaal (women's) Interzonal by gauer

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ALLA KUSHNIR
(born Aug-11-1941, died Aug-02-2013, 71 years old) Russia (federation/nationality Israel)

[what is this?]
Alla Shulimovna Kushnir was born in Moscow, USSR. Awarded the WIM title in 1962 and the WGM title in 1976, she was Women's World Championship Challenger in 1965, 1969 and 1972. She was also USSR Women's Champion in 1970 (winning the play-off against Maaja Ranniku) before moving to Israel in 1973.

Kushnir died on August 2, 2013 in Tel Aviv.

Wikipedia article: Alla Kushnir


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 page 1 of 13; games 1-25 of 302  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. G Archakova vs A Kushnir  0-1341959Moscow-BelarusB52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
2. A Kushnir vs E Bishard  1-0261959Leningrad - MoscowA16 English
3. E Bishard vs A Kushnir  ½-½191959Leningrad - MoscowB10 Caro-Kann
4. A Kushnir vs N Grigorieva  1-0271960Leningrad - MoscowE73 King's Indian
5. L Volpert vs A Kushnir  0-1331961Match-Tournament (Team)A40 Queen's Pawn Game
6. A Kushnir vs N Gaprindashvili  0-11919613rd Soviet Team CupA15 English
7. Burtseva vs A Kushnir  0-11819613rd Soviet Team CupB16 Caro-Kann, Bronstein-Larsen Variation
8. A Kushnir vs N Gaprindashvili  0-1571962Georgia (Women)C85 Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation Doubly Deferred (DERLD)
9. H Konarkowska-Sokolov vs A Kushnir  0-1411962Georgia (Women)B12 Caro-Kann Defense
10. K Blagojevic vs A Kushnir  0-1291962Soviet Union - YugoslaviaB16 Caro-Kann, Bronstein-Larsen Variation
11. M Lazarevic vs A Kushnir  1-0341962Soviet Union - YugoslaviaA07 King's Indian Attack
12. A Kushnir vs M Vospernik  1-0251962Soviet Union - YugoslaviaA04 Reti Opening
13. M Lazarevic vs A Kushnir  1-0331962Soviet Union - YugoslaviaA07 King's Indian Attack
14. A Kushnir vs N Spikiene  1-02819628th Soviet Team ChampionshipA16 English
15. A Kushnir vs S Rootare  ½-½4019628th Soviet Team ChampionshipD34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
16. L Volpert vs A Kushnir  ½-½241962Leningrad - MoscowE91 King's Indian
17. A Kushnir vs V Nedeljkovic  ½-½571963Yugoslavia - Soviet UnionA37 English, Symmetrical
18. A Kushnir vs M Lazarevic  1-0441963Yugoslavia - Soviet UnionA80 Dutch
19. A Kushnir vs V Nedeljkovic  1-0301963Yugoslavia - Soviet UnionA46 Queen's Pawn Game
20. V Nedeljkovic vs A Kushnir  1-0321963Yugoslavia - Soviet UnionB16 Caro-Kann, Bronstein-Larsen Variation
21. A Kushnir vs N Gaprindashvili  0-13319639th Soviet Team Championship qual-1A04 Reti Opening
22. A Kushnir vs V Kozlovskaya  1-0261963USSR Championship (Women)D02 Queen's Pawn Game
23. M Ranniku vs A Kushnir  1-0411963USSR Championship (Women)B24 Sicilian, Closed
24. A Kushnir vs L Volpert  1-0541963USSR Championship (Women)A03 Bird's Opening
25. E Karakas vs A Kushnir  ½-½301964Candidates Tournament (Women)B15 Caro-Kann
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Aug-10-06  BIDMONFA: Alla Kushnir

KUSHNIR, Alla
http://www.bidmonfa.com/kushnir_all...
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Aug-11-07  unluckythirtyfive: Praise alla!
Aug-11-07  xeroxmachine: alla akbar
Aug-11-07  Larsker: Alla carbonara
Sep-07-08  myschkin: . . .

Bio (in English): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alla_K...

Photo (1975): http://www.chessdryad.com/photos/bu...

Oct-13-09  Caissanist: When Kushnir left the Soviet Union for Israel, reportedly a condition for allowing her to emigrate was that she not participate in the upcoming women's world championship cycle.
Feb-21-11  BLarsen1967: Alla Kushnir scored 5 out of 10 in Lone Pine 1975 (Vladimir Liberzon came clear first) - Here's an article on that charming tournament http://blunderprone.blogspot.com/20...
Aug-11-11  brankat: Happy Birthday Alla!
Aug-14-11  gulliver: Below are two links to tactics by Alla Kushnir . Credit to Chess Today Magazine and to the Susan Polgar Blog. Thanks both to Susan and to Alex Baburin and all the crew of the Chess today magazine for their wonderful job of promoting chess.

Happy birthday to Alla! She represented Israel in the Olympiad in Haifa in 1973 , I believe. I think she played on board 1. And the Israeli women team made history by taking the first place. Luba Kristol was also in the Israeli team. I will never forget this honor to the Jewish people and to the state of Israel that these women gave. Again Best wishes for Alla Kushnir's Birthday!!!

http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/201...

http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/201...

Aug-14-11  polarmis: There was a quick news item on her 70th birthday here: http://www.whychess.org/en/node/1332 (I translated it from the Russian and it was also translated into French)
Aug-11-12  brankat: Wishing You a very Happy Birthday!
Aug-11-13  stanleys: Sad news: Alla Kushnir has died on 2 August 2013. RIP
Aug-11-13  brankat: Sad news indeed. R.I.P. Alla.
Aug-11-13  twinlark: R.I.P. Alla Kushnir.
Aug-25-13  Karpova: Obituary in the 'BCM': http://www.britishchessmagazine.co....
Jun-27-14  siggemannen: RIP, Alla!
Jan-30-16  Eastfrisian: Wasn't she married to Grandmaster Leonid Stein ?
Jan-30-16  whiteshark: <Eastfrisian> Stein was married with Liliya Kvecher since Sep. 22, 1962. There's a wedding photo in Gufeld's biography on <Leonid Stein - Master of Risk Strategy> on p. 53

They had at least one daughter, Alla,* but that is accidental.

*photo of her w/Stein on p. 80, ibid

Jan-30-16
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: Aged fourteen, I well remember reading that Fischer rang a colleague to ask how Larry Melvyn Evans 'could lose to a woman': A Kushnir vs Larry Evans, 1975.
Aug-11-16  TheFocus: Happy birthday, Alla Kushnir.
Mar-19-18
Premium Chessgames Member
  sachistu: Although it does not appear any of the games from her match with Maaja Ranniku are currently on this site, 7 games are given by ChessBase. However, ChessBase lists the year as 1967. I've been able to confirm that at least 3 of the games are from the 1970 playoff match following the Soviet women's championship. I suspect all 7 are part of the 1970 match. re: the Soviet newspaper Shakhmatny Moscow 1971 Issue 3.
Mar-20-18
Premium Chessgames Member
  sachistu: Just a follow up on my previous post... The 7 games ChessBase lists are all from the 1970 playoff match. I happened to notice Wikipedia listed the score as 4.5-3.5 with a note 'citation needed'. In fact, there were only 7 games played with Kushnir winning 4-3. See Shakhmatny Moscow 1971, Issue 5.
Aug-12-19  Ironmanth: RIP, Alla. We thank and remember you for your fighting spirit.
Dec-28-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  gostkhorzhevich: how can i get a repond to my comment?
Dec-29-23  Caissanist: If you are running into a problem with the site, you probably want to post to chessgames.com chessforum , which is basically the customer support/help page.
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