Oleg Ivanovich Dementiev (Russian: Олег Иванович Дементьев; 30 April 1938, Sverdlovsk - 15 November 1991, Kaliningrad) was a Russian chess master who won the Russian Chess Championship in 1971.

Oleg Dementiev
Full nameOleg Ivanovich Dementiev
Country Soviet Union
Born(1938-04-30)30 April 1938
Sverdlovsk
Died15 November 1991(1991-11-15) (aged 53)
Kaliningrad

Biography

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In 1965 became in a Soviet chess master. He successfully participated in the Russian Chess Championships. In 1970 in Kuibyshev he shared 3rd and 4th place (won by Anatoly Karpov),[1] but in 1971 in Penza he shared 1st place with Valery Zilberstein.[2] In 1970 he participated in the USSR Chess Championship final in Riga and shared 10th and 11th place.[3] In 1974 he won the Burevestnik Soviet sports society chess championship.[4] Starting in the mid-1970s he worked as a coach in Kaliningrad and there contributed to the development of chess.[5]

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