Mingrelian: I read his name was Stepan Isaakevich Izbinsky. He was Kiev Champion several times, beat Bogolyubov in a match shortly before he died(1912).
His first big tournament was when the All-Russian Ch was held in his hometown in 1903. He had made himself noticed before that by scoring ...
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