Young master
Alexander Belyavsky, an international chess master at the age of 19, comes from Lvov, in Russia. In the world junior championship in Teeside, England, recently he won three successive games. He caught up with the leader, Marjanovic of Jugoslavia, and then confidently beat him to win the title. He is the twelfth person to hold this title, and third among ths Soviet chess aces (the others were Boris Spassky and Anatoli Karpov). The 1973 challengers tournament attracted 50 young aspirants from 48 countries. Alexander Belyavsky sat down at the chess board for the first time at the age of six. It was his father, a dental technician and chess enthusiast, who introduced him to the game. Two years later the boy began to attend a chess group at the Lvov Children’s Sports School. Under the guidance of Viktor Kart he mastered the art of this ancient game with Martha Schul, the current U.S.S.R. champion, and 1973 European champion Oleg Romanishin.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33479, 9 March 1974, Page 12
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162Young master Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33479, 9 March 1974, Page 12
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