Yury Toshev (Bulgarian: Юрий Георгиев Тошев) (24 December 1907 – 19 April 1974) was a Bulgarian chess master.
He thrice won the Bulgarian Chess Championship: 1933 (jointly with Georgy Geshev[1] but lost a play-off match to him),[2] 1942,[3] and 1947 (jointly with Kamen Piskov).[4]
He represented Bulgaria in the 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936.[5] After World War II, he twice played for Bulgaria in Balkaniad team tournaments, and won bronze medals at Belgrade 1946[6] and Sofia 1947.[7]
References edit
- ^ "Varna 1933". Thechesslibrary.com. Retrieved December 10, 2011.
- ^ Archived June 27, 2004, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Sofia 1942". Thechesslibrary.com. Retrieved December 10, 2011.
- ^ "Sofia 1947". Thechesslibrary.com. Retrieved December 10, 2011.
- ^ "unofficial Chess Olympiad: Munich 1936". OlimpBase.org. Retrieved December 10, 2011.
- ^ "1st Chess Balkaniad (men): Belgrade 1946". OlimpBase.org. Retrieved December 10, 2011.
- ^ "2nd Chess Balkaniad (men): Sofia 1947". OlimpBase.org. Retrieved December 10, 2011.
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