Mikhail Umansky

Mikhail Markovich Umansky (Russian: Михаил Уманский; January 21, 1952 – December 17, 2010) was a Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess, who was the 13th ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1989 and 1998. He was also USSR Correspondence Champion in 1978.[1][2]

Mikhail Umansky
Full nameMikhail Markovich Umansky
Country Soviet Union
 Russia
Born(1952-01-21)January 21, 1952
Stavropol, USSR
DiedDecember 17, 2010(2010-12-17) (aged 58)
Augsburg, Germany
TitleICCF Grandmaster
ICCF World Champion1989–98

Chess biography

Umansky was born in Stavropol, then USSR. He is considered by some to be the greatest correspondence chess player of all time, since he convincingly won a "champion of champions" tournament, the ICCF 50 Years World Champion Jubilee, a special invitational correspondence tournament involving all living former ICCF World Champions. He scored 7/8 (+6 −0 =2), two points ahead of Gert Jan Timmerman, Fritz Baumbach and Victor Palciauskas. One of his victims was Hans Berliner, who said after his defeat: "It is amazing that Umansky took only 55 days to play this wonderful game. I still do not know when I went wrong."[3]

Umansky died on December 17, 2010 in Augsburg, Germany.

In 2011, the Russian Correspondence Chess Association organized in his honor the chess tournament Umansky Memorial, won by the Italian CCGM Eros Riccio.[4]

References
  1. Mikhail Umansky player profile and games at Chessgames.com
  2. Chess life Volume 60, Issues 7–12, p. 46, United States Chess Federation – 2005
  3. Book review of "50 Golden Chess Games: More Masterpieces of Correspondence Chess by Tim Harding"
  4. Umansky Memorial
Preceded by
Grigory Sanakoev		 World Correspondence Chess Champion
1989–1998		 Succeeded by
Tõnu Õim
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