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Boris Kogan (1940-1992) was an International Master (1981). He was Soviet Junior Champion in 1956 and 1957. He was a full time chess teacher in the Soviet Union before emigrating and coming to the United States in 1981. He played...
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In his early years, Ignatz Kolisch (1837-1889) was the private secretary of the Russian Prince Urusov. He later became a wandering chess professional and was one of the top 4 chess players in the world in the 1860s. In 1867, he wo...
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George Koltanowski (1903-2000) was a chess editor for the San Francisco Chronicle for 52 years and author of over 19,000 chess columns. He learned chess at the age of 14. He moved to San Francisco after World War II. In 1949 he h...
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Alexander Konstantinopolsky (1910-1990) was a Soviet International Master (1950) and Honorary Grandmaster (1983) and winner of the first USSR Correspondence Championship (1951). He was one of the leading trainers in the USSR during the 1950s...
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Viktor Korchnoi, born March 23, 1931, is a Grandmaster (1956) and four times Soviet champion (1960, 1962, 1964, 1970). He was the Dutch champion in 1977 and the Swiss champion in 1982, 1984, and 1985. He played on six of the USSR's...
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Walter Korn (1908-1997) was the editor of Modern Chess Openings and chess contributor to chess publications for 50 years. He was the first FIDE International Judge for Chess Endgame Compositions in North America. He fl...
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Grigory Koshnitsky (1907-1999) was born in Russia and moved to Australia in 1926. In 1926, he first won the Queensland championship. He won the Queensland championshiop three times. He was Australian champion from 1932 to 19...
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Alexandra Kosteniuk, born April 23, 1984, became a Woman Grandmaster at age 14 and International Master at age 16. She became an International Grandmaster (WGM) for women in 1998. She is a former world women’s vice-champion....
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The Kostic Trap is also known as the Blackburne-Shilling trap since Joseph Henry Blackburne used it to win shillings from amateurs. It is a dubious trap since white can easily avoid it. It is a offshoot of the Italian Game and has been used to bea...
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Bora Kostic (1887-1963) was a Yugoslav Grandmaster (1950). He learned chess at the age of 10. He won the Baltic Championship in 1913. In 1913, he moved to Buenos Aires and worked as a chess lecturer at the Argentine military acad...
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