The Greatest Russian Chess Players

Birthdate: August 11, 1941

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Moscow, Russia

Died: August 2, 2013

Alla Kushnir was a  celebrated Soviet-born Israel chess player, who began her career in her birth country, becoming a Woman International Master and winning two Women's Chess Olympiads before migrating to Israel. There she continued to excel, eventually becoming Woman Grandmaster. Also three times Women's World Chess Championship Challenger, she later became a professor of archeology at Tel Aviv University.