GM Viacheslav Ragozin

Soviet UnionSoviet Union
Born 1908

Viacheslav Ragozin was a Soviet chess player, writer, and editor who achieved the rare distinction of holding the Grandmaster title in both over-the-board and correspondence chess. He won the World Correspondence Chess Championship, and his name endures through the Ragozin Variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined.

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