Lev Solomonovich Aronin was a Soviet International Master of chess.
15 Facts About Lev Aronin
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Lev Aronin was the youngest of three brothers, with Gregory being the eldest, and Efim being the second.
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Gregory taught him chess at the age of 8, and he could recall that at the age of 14, Lev beat him and Efim simultaneously without looking at the boards while they were making the moves over the chessboards for Lev and themselves.
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Lev Aronin was lying on the couch at another room and shouted the moves to us, for each board, and we were making them over the boards and shouting back our respective moves.
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Lev Aronin had to go back to the semifinal stage to qualify for the next final and he qualified successfully at Sochi 1951.
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Lev Aronin was awarded the International Master title in 1950 by FIDE, the World Chess Federation.
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Bronstein wrote that he had played several games with Lev Aronin, and knew him quite well.
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Lev Solomonovich Aronin played successfully many times in USSR Championships but never managed to actually become the champion.
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Lev Aronin never received the title of grandmaster which he deserved without any doubt.
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Lev Aronin missed a hidden, very neat, drawing variation found by Smyslov, who had done his homework brilliantly, and had to settle for a draw, missing qualification by half a point for the Interzonal Tournament in 1952.
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Lev Aronin did not play in the 1955 Soviet Championship final, referred to by Bronstein, with the game against Smyslov.
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Lev Aronin never got the chance to compete internationally, outside the Soviet Union, in an individual tournament.
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Lev Aronin's style tended to be positional in nature, with the tactics arising naturally out of the position rather than being forced, and he was one of the leading lights with the King's Indian Defence from the mid-1940s, as this defence became very popular.
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Lev Aronin was a fine theoretician who was dangerous for virtually everyone he met; during his career he scored wins over almost all the top Soviet players, excepting Mikhail Botvinnik and Vasily Smyslov.
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Lev Aronin died at the age of 62 in Moscow on October 4,1982.