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.mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn">Leonid Stein</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Leonid_Stein_1969.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Leonid_Stein_1969.jpg/220px-Leonid_Stein_1969.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="270" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Leonid_Stein_1969.jpg/330px-Leonid_Stein_1969.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Leonid_Stein_1969.jpg/440px-Leonid_Stein_1969.jpg 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="760" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Leonid Stein in 1969</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Full name</th><td class="infobox-data">Leonid Zakharovich Stein</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1934-11-12</span>)</span>November 12, 1934<br /><a href="/wiki/Kamianets-Podilskyi" title="Kamianets-Podilskyi">Kamianets-Podilskyi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic">Ukrainian SSR</a>, Soviet Union</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">July 4, 1973<span style="display:none">(1973-07-04)</span> (aged 38)<br /><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic" title="Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic">Russian SFSR</a>, Soviet Union</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Title</th><td class="infobox-data note"><a href="/wiki/Grandmaster_(chess)" title="Grandmaster (chess)">Grandmaster</a> (1962)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chess_players_by_peak_FIDE_rating" title="List of chess players by peak FIDE rating">Peak rating</a></th><td class="infobox-data">2620 (July 1972)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Peak ranking</th><td class="infobox-data">No. 11 (July 1972)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Leonid Zakharovych Stein</b> (<a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a>: <span lang="uk">Леонід Захарович Штейн</span>; November 12, 1934 – July 4, 1973) was a <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> chess <a href="/wiki/Grandmaster_(chess)" title="Grandmaster (chess)">Grandmaster</a> from <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian SSR">Ukraine</a>. He won three <a href="/wiki/USSR_Chess_Championships" class="mw-redirect" title="USSR Chess Championships">USSR Chess Championships</a> in the 1960s (1963, 1965, and 1966), and was among the world's top ten players during that era. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leonid_Stein&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Leonid Stein was born in <a href="/wiki/Kamenets-Podolsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Kamenets-Podolsky">Kamenets-Podolsky</a>. He was a <a href="/wiki/Jewish" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish">Jewish</a> Ukrainian who served in the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Army" title="Soviet Army">Soviet Army</a>. </p><p>In both 1955 and 1956, he tied for first place in the individual Army Championship. He achieved the national <a href="/wiki/Chess_master" class="mw-redirect" title="Chess master">Master</a> title for chess at the relatively late age of 24, but, as his Army titles against strong competition attest, he was likely at that strength somewhat earlier. At 24, he competed for the first time in the <a href="/wiki/USSR_Chess_Championship" title="USSR Chess Championship">USSR Chess Championship</a> at <a href="/wiki/Tbilisi" title="Tbilisi">Tbilisi</a>, 1959. In the following year he won the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Chess_Championship" title="Ukrainian Chess Championship">Ukrainian Championship</a> at <a href="/wiki/Kyiv" title="Kyiv">Kyiv</a>, winning it again in 1962. He played board one for the Soviet team at the <a href="/wiki/Helsinki" title="Helsinki">Helsinki</a> 1961 Student <a href="/wiki/Olympiad" title="Olympiad">Olympiad</a>, scoring a strong +8, =3, −1, and helping his team to the overall gold medals. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Grandmaster_and_Soviet_Champion">Grandmaster and Soviet Champion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leonid_Stein&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Grandmaster and Soviet Champion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Stein tied for third place in the 1961 Soviet Championship, at Moscow, defeating <a href="/wiki/Tigran_Petrosian" title="Tigran Petrosian">Tigran Petrosian</a> on the way. He won his first Soviet title at <a href="/wiki/Leningrad" class="mw-redirect" title="Leningrad">Leningrad</a> 1963; he tied with <a href="/wiki/Boris_Spassky" title="Boris Spassky">Boris Spassky</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ratmir_Kholmov" title="Ratmir Kholmov">Ratmir Kholmov</a> in the tournament itself, then won the playoff. He won again at <a href="/wiki/Tallinn" title="Tallinn">Tallinn</a>, 1965, and repeated the next year, 1966, at <a href="/wiki/Tbilisi" title="Tbilisi">Tbilisi</a>. Two outstanding international tournament victories were attained at Moscow 1967 (commemorating the 50th anniversary of the <a href="/wiki/1917_October_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="1917 October Revolution">1917 October Revolution</a>), and Moscow 1971 (<a href="/wiki/Alexander_Alekhine" title="Alexander Alekhine">Alekhine</a> Memorial, equal with <a href="/wiki/Anatoly_Karpov" title="Anatoly Karpov">Anatoly Karpov</a>). Both of the Moscow tournaments were considered to be among the strongest tournaments in chess history up to that time. Further international tournament victories were scored at <a href="/wiki/Sarajevo" title="Sarajevo">Sarajevo</a> (Bosna) 1967, equal with <a href="/wiki/Borislav_Ivkov" title="Borislav Ivkov">Borislav Ivkov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hastings_International_Chess_Congress" title="Hastings International Chess Congress">Hastings</a> 1967–68, shared, <a href="/wiki/Kecskem%C3%A9t" title="Kecskemét">Kecskemét</a> 1968, Tallinn 1969, <a href="/wiki/P%C3%A4rnu" title="Pärnu">Pärnu</a> 1971, and <a href="/wiki/Las_Palmas_de_Gran_Canaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Las Palmas de Gran Canaria">Las Palmas</a> 1973, equal with <a href="/wiki/Tigran_Petrosian" title="Tigran Petrosian">Tigran Petrosian</a>. From 1963 to his premature death in 1973, Stein was in the top ten players in the world, or just outside that range. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="World_title_challenge_frustrations">World title challenge frustrations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leonid_Stein&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: World title challenge frustrations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:InterzonalChess1964NL.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/InterzonalChess1964NL.jpg/220px-InterzonalChess1964NL.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/InterzonalChess1964NL.jpg/330px-InterzonalChess1964NL.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/InterzonalChess1964NL.jpg/440px-InterzonalChess1964NL.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2406" /></a><figcaption>Amsterdam Interzonal 1964 <br />(from left to right) Leonid Stein, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Taimanov" title="Mark Taimanov">Mark Taimanov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Borislav_Ivkov" title="Borislav Ivkov">Borislav Ivkov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andor_Lilienthal" title="Andor Lilienthal">Andor Lilienthal</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vasili_Smyslov" class="mw-redirect" title="Vasili Smyslov">Vasili Smyslov</a> </figcaption></figure> <p>With his strong result at the 1961 Soviet Championship, he earned the right to play in the 1962 <a href="/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1963#Interzonal" title="World Chess Championship 1963">Stockholm Interzonal</a> tournament. His play there was excellent, finishing in a tie for 6th–7th places, but he was denied the right to advance to the <a href="/wiki/Candidates%27_Tournament" class="mw-redirect" title="Candidates' Tournament">Candidates' Tournament</a>, because of a FIDE rule then in force which limited the qualifiers from any one country to three (in this case USSR). He had finished behind fellow Soviets <a href="/wiki/Efim_Geller" title="Efim Geller">Efim Geller</a>, Petrosian, and <a href="/wiki/Viktor_Korchnoi" title="Viktor Korchnoi">Viktor Korchnoi</a>. </p><p>A very similar occurrence was the story of the next Interzonal tournament, in <a href="/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a> 1964. Stein took fifth place, sufficient for qualification for any non-Soviet player, with an outstanding total of 16½ / 23, but was blocked from advancement. He had finished behind fellow Soviets <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Tal" title="Mikhail Tal">Mikhail Tal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vasily_Smyslov" title="Vasily Smyslov">Vasily Smyslov</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Boris_Spassky" title="Boris Spassky">Boris Spassky</a>, who, along with Danish GM <a href="/wiki/Bent_Larsen" title="Bent Larsen">Bent Larsen</a>, had all scored 17 points. He did represent the USSR at the <a href="/wiki/16th_Chess_Olympiad" title="16th Chess Olympiad">Tel Aviv Olympiad</a> that year, scoring a fine 10/13, and winning an individual gold medal on the first reserve board. Again, he was in the Soviet side at the <a href="/wiki/17th_Chess_Olympiad" title="17th Chess Olympiad">Havana Olympiad 1966</a>, scoring 9/12, winning an individual silver medal on board four. Both times, the Soviet Union won the team gold medals. </p><p>Again, in 1967, Stein qualified for the <a href="/wiki/Sousse" title="Sousse">Sousse</a> Interzonal, scored well, in a tie for 6th–8th places, but had to undergo a further playoff with <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Reshevsky" title="Samuel Reshevsky">Samuel Reshevsky</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vlastimil_Hort" title="Vlastimil Hort">Vlastimil Hort</a>, in Los Angeles, which was won by Reshevsky. </p><p>He was on the Soviet side for the <a href="/wiki/European_Chess_Team_Championships" class="mw-redirect" title="European Chess Team Championships">European team championships</a> at <a href="/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a> 1965 and <a href="/wiki/Kapfenberg" title="Kapfenberg">Kapfenberg</a> 1970, both of which were victorious. He served as an alternate on the Soviet team for the <a href="/wiki/Russia_(USSR)_vs_Rest_of_the_World#First_match,_Belgrade_1970" class="mw-redirect" title="Russia (USSR) vs Rest of the World">Match of the Century</a> against the Rest of the World team, at <a href="/wiki/Belgrade" title="Belgrade">Belgrade</a> 1970. He played one game, losing to Larsen. </p><p>Stein had already qualified for the 1973 <a href="/wiki/Petropolis" class="mw-redirect" title="Petropolis">Petropolis</a> Interzonal, and was considered a potential favorite to win the entire Candidates' cycle </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leonid_Stein&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He died of a heart attack at the age of 38 at the Rossiya Hotel in Moscow as he prepared to leave for the European chess championships in Bath, England.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time of death, he was still considered as one of the main contenders for World Championship. He was buried in Kyiv, in his native Ukraine. His widow and children currently live in US. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Style_and_legacy">Style and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leonid_Stein&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Style and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Stein's creative style was greatly influenced by <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Chigorin" title="Mikhail Chigorin">Chigorin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Alekhine" title="Alexander Alekhine">Alekhine</a>. He was a highly intuitive, natural player. He was considered to be a brilliant attacking genius, but nevertheless played very sound chess, being less willing than <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Tal" title="Mikhail Tal">Tal</a> to complicate with unforeseeable results. He excelled in sharp openings such as the <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Indian_Defence" title="King's Indian Defence">King's Indian</a> systems with both colors, the <a href="/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnfeld_Defence" title="Grünfeld Defence">Grünfeld Defence</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Sicilian_Defence" title="Sicilian Defence">Sicilian Defence</a>. </p><p>He was one of few players who had an even score against <a href="/wiki/Vasily_Smyslov" title="Vasily Smyslov">Vasily Smyslov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tigran_Petrosian" title="Tigran Petrosian">Tigran Petrosian</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Botvinnik" title="Mikhail Botvinnik">Mikhail Botvinnik</a>. He had plus records against <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Tal" title="Mikhail Tal">Mikhail Tal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boris_Spassky" title="Boris Spassky">Boris Spassky</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Paul_Keres" title="Paul Keres">Paul Keres</a>. Stein defeated many of the top players of his era. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_games">Notable games</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leonid_Stein&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Notable games"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1132189,">Nikolay Krogius vs Leonid Stein, Ukrainian Championship, Kyiv 1960, King's Indian Defence, Petrosian Variation (E92), 0–1</a> Stein was a terror in the King's Indian, and shows it here.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1106505,">Leonid Stein vs Tigran Petrosian, USSR Championship, Moscow 1961, French Defence, Winawer Variation (C18), 1–0</a> Stein takes off the world champion-to-be in devastating fashion.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1132194,">Leonid Stein vs Mikhail Tal, USSR Club Championship Team finals, Moscow 1961, Sicilian Defence, Najdorf Variation (B94), 1–0</a> Former world champion Tal has to concede defeat in an ultra-sharp game.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1112976,">Leonid Stein vs Lajos Portisch, Stockholm Interzonal 1962, Sicilian Defence, Kan Variation (B42), 1–0</a> Stein unleashes a nasty knight sacrifice to tear open Black's king position.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1128626,">Boris Spassky vs Leonid Stein, USSR Championship, Leningrad 1964, Grunfeld Defence (D86), 0–1</a> Another world champion-to-be meets his match in Leonid Stein.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1032692,">Mikhail Botvinnik vs Leonid Stein, Moscow 1965, Ruy Lopez, Delayed Exchange Variation (C85), 0–1</a> Yet another former world champion may have wished he had stayed home.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1132468,">Leonid Stein vs Pal Benko, Caracas 1970, Sicilian Defence, Lasker Variation (B33), 1–0</a> Black's opening play was daring and was refuted in precise fashion.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1126431,">Leonid Stein vs Vasily Smyslov, Moscow 1972, English Opening (A17), 1–0</a> Smyslov, a master of quiet positional play, has few answers for Stein's tactics.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1091383,">Ljubomir Ljubojevic vs Leonid Stein, Las Palmas 1973, Nimzo-Larsen Opening (A01), 0–1</a> Two skilled tacticians go toe-to-toe, and Stein comes out on top, after slipping in a surprise knight sacrifice in the opening.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leonid_Stein&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Jewish_chess_players" title="List of Jewish chess players">List of Jewish chess players</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leonid_Stein&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1973/07/06/archives/leonid-stein-dead-chess-grandmaster.html">"Leonid Stein Dead; Chess Grandmaster"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>. 1973-07-06. p. 26. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331">0362-4331</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2023-07-18</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Leonid+Stein+Dead%3B+Chess+Grandmaster&rft.pages=26&rft.date=1973-07-06&rft.issn=0362-4331&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1973%2F07%2F06%2Farchives%2Fleonid-stein-dead-chess-grandmaster.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALeonid+Stein" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leonid_Stein&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCrouch,_Colin2009" class="citation book cs1">Crouch, Colin (2009). <i>Chess Secrets: Great Attackers: Learn from Kasparov, Tal and Stein</i>. <a href="/wiki/Everyman_Chess" title="Everyman Chess">Everyman Chess</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-85744-579-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-85744-579-4"><bdi>978-1-85744-579-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Chess+Secrets%3A+Great+Attackers%3A+Learn+from+Kasparov%2C+Tal+and+Stein&rft.pub=Everyman+Chess&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-1-85744-579-4&rft.au=Crouch%2C+Colin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALeonid+Stein" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEngquvist,_Thomas2016" class="citation book cs1">Engquvist, Thomas (2016). <i>Stein: Move by Move</i>. <a href="/wiki/Everyman_Chess" title="Everyman Chess">Everyman Chess</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1781942697" title="Special:BookSources/978-1781942697"><bdi>978-1781942697</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Stein%3A+Move+by+Move&rft.pub=Everyman+Chess&rft.date=2016&rft.isbn=978-1781942697&rft.au=Engquvist%2C+Thomas&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALeonid+Stein" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKeene,_Raymond1989" class="citation book cs1">Keene, Raymond (1989). <i>Leonid Stein – Master of Attack</i>. London, Tui Enterprises. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-84382-018-8" title="Special:BookSources/1-84382-018-8"><bdi>1-84382-018-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Leonid+Stein+%E2%80%93+Master+of+Attack&rft.pub=London%2C+Tui+Enterprises&rft.date=1989&rft.isbn=1-84382-018-8&rft.au=Keene%2C+Raymond&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALeonid+Stein" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGufeldLazarev2001" class="citation book cs1">Gufeld, Eduard; Lazarev, Efim (2001). <i>Leonid Stein, Master of Risk Strategy</i>. Thinkers' Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-938650-54-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-938650-54-8"><bdi>0-938650-54-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Leonid+Stein%2C+Master+of+Risk+Strategy&rft.pub=Thinkers%27+Press&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=0-938650-54-8&rft.aulast=Gufeld&rft.aufirst=Eduard&rft.au=Lazarev%2C+Efim&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALeonid+Stein" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leonid_Stein&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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