Yuri Lvovich Averbakh is the world's leading authority on chess endings He was born February 8, 1922 in as born in Kaluga, Russia.
He was chairman of the of the USSR Chess Federation from 1973 to 1978.
He is 98 years old and is the world's oldest chess grandmaster.
Peter Hugh Clarke was an English chess player, who held titles of FIDE master (FM) and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1980), FIDE International arbiter (1976), Chess Olympiad individual silver medal winner (1.
