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Larissa Volpert is a Russian-born grandmaster of chess. She was born on March 30, 1926 in Russia. She is one of the few female grandmasters in the world. Volpert began playing chess at the age of seven and was awarded the title of Woman International Master in 1950. She won the Women's World Chess Championship in 1956 and was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 1957. Volpert has won numerous international tournaments, including the Women's World Chess Championship in 1956, the Women's World Team Championship in 1957, and the Women's World Chess Championship in 1958. She has also won several national championships, including the Soviet Women's Championship in 1956 and the Russian Women's Championship in 1957. Volpert is 97 years old and is currently living in Moscow, Russia. She is married and has two children. Volpert is considered to be one of the greatest female chess players of all time. She is an inspiration to many aspiring female chess players and has been inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame.

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2017

Volpert earned the Woman International Master title in 1954 and the Woman Grandmaster title in 1978. She had a degree in philology from Leningrad University and since 1977 taught Russian philology at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Her major works are about Pushkin's and Lermontov's poetry, especially in their connections to French literature. She died at the age of 91 on 1 October 2017.

1947

Born in Leningrad, she learned chess from her older brother and received chess instruction at the Leningrad Pioneers Palace. In 1947, she tied for first at the Leningrad Women's Championship. She played her first USSR Women's Championship in 1949 and finished equal fifth. In 1954, she won her first USSR Women's Championship. She scored 2–0 against Nina Hrušková-Bělská in the 1954 USSR v. Czechoslovakia match. In 1958 she shared the USSR Women's Championship title, and in 1959 she won for the third time, her second outright victory.

1926

Larissa Ilinichna Volpert (Russian: Лариса Ильинична Вольперт; 30 March 1926 – 1 October 2017) was a Soviet chess Woman Grandmaster and Russian and Estonian philologist. She was a three time Soviet women's chess champion (1954, 1958, and 1959).