Rashid Nezhmetdinov

Rachid Gibiatovtich Nejmetdinov is a player of failures eminent born with Aktioubinsk in Russia the December 15th 1912 and died in 1974.

Rachid Nejmetdinov was a player of wild and imaginative attack, he made fear with several Soviet champions, but he forever reached the title of international Large-Master. It gained some parts against some famous players such Mikhail Tal, David Bronstein, Boris Spassky, Lev Polougaïevsky or Efim Geller: it has a positive score in the 20 parts which it played against the world champions.

Quotations

“Nobody sees the combinations like does it Nejmetdinov. ” Mikhail Botvinnik
Lev Polougaïevsky regards Rachid Nejmetdinov as “the largest Master of the initiative”.
“Its parts reveal the beauty of the failures and make you like with the failures not the points and the titles, but the splendid harmony and the elegance of this world. ” Mikhail Tal

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