zanzibar: Following up a little <stonehenge>'s post:http://translate.google.com/transla...
(Google translation of Russian wiki)
<Champion of Kazan in 1954 and 1958 years., Champion of Tatarstan in 1961, at multiple winner of the competition. In the 1963 Open Championship in Kazan Chess Club, where he participated eight masters of sports and six of the strongest candidates for the master of the Volga region, he shared the first - third place and fulfilled the norm for the title of Master of Sports .
[...] In the semi-final of the championship of Moscow in 1966 took third place. In the championship of journalists in Moscow was the first in 1967 and 1969 , and in 1970 took second place [3].>
His <Everyman> bio blurb, in full (slight edit):
http://www.everymanchess.com/disp_b...
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Iakov Damsky
Lakov Damsky is an experienced radio and TV commentator and author of several books for Everyman -
The Art of Defence in Chess (with Lev Polugayevsky 1996),
http://www.everymanchess.com/chess/...
Attack with Mikhail Tal (with Mikhail Tal 1994),
http://www.everymanchess.com/chess/...
The Heavy Pieces in Action (1997),
http://www.everymanchess.com/chess/...
Kramnik: My Life and Games (w Kramnik 2000),
http://www.everymanchess.com/chess/...
Chess Brilliancy (2002)
http://www.everymanchess.com/chess/...