Word: misha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pressed Flowers. After Jane Marsh, the one American who created the greatest fascination and furor was California Pianist Misha Dichter, 20, who placed second to a remarkable young 17-year-old Soviet, Grigori Sokolov. The slight, baby-faced teen-ager played so brilliantly that the jury took the unprecedented step of awarding its compliments not only to him, but to his teacher, Professor L. I. Seligman of Leningrad...
...With rapid-fire, unorthodox moves, Latvia's Mikhail ("Misha") Tal, a 23-year-old philologist, flustered methodical Mikhail Botvinnik, 48, into worrying more about hidden traps than mounting his own attack, dethroned the Russian master as world chess champion by the score of 12½-8½ in their matches in Moscow to become the youngest titleholder of the 20th century...