Mikhail Chigorin

Mikhail Chigorin games

Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also Tchigorin) was a leading Russian chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times. The last great player of the Romantic chess style, he also served as a major source of inspiration for the "Soviet Chess School", which dominated the chess world in the middle and latter parts of the 20th century.