Profile via TMDB · Courtesy of TMDB
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Soviet Championships
- Soviet Championships
- I Was a Victim of Bobby Fischer
- The Sicilian Defence
- Sicilian Defense
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Charkow, Ukraine
Known for
- Grandmaster1973
- Beethoven Concerto — Yanka Malevich1936
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Russia
- Active from
- 1926
- Active to
- 2016
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,894x
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,098x
- Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches
· 1995 · cited 40,228x
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 39,707x
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,418x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Mark Evgenievich Taimanov , ( 1926-02-07 ) 7 February 1926, Kharkov , Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
- Died
- 28 November 2016 (2016-11-28) (aged 90), Saint Petersburg , Russia
- Country
- Soviet Union (until 1991) Russia (from 1991)
- Title
- Grandmaster (1952)
- Peak rating
- 2600 (July 1971)
- Peak ranking
- No. 15 (July 1971)
via Wikipedia infobox
~9 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Mark Evgenievich Taimanov (Russian: Марк Евгеньевич Тайманов; 7 February 1926 – 28 November 2016) was one of the leading Soviet and Russian chess players, among the world's top 20 players from 1946 to 1971. A prolific chess author, Taimanov was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 1952 and in 1956 won the USSR Chess Championship. He was a World Championship Candidate in 1953 and 1971, and several opening variations are named after him. Taimanov was also a world-class concert pianist.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mark Taimanov” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.