Alexander Zaitsev (chess player)

Alexander Nikolayevich Zaitsev (June 15, 1935 – October 31, 1971) was a Soviet chess grandmaster.

[1] Zaitsev shared first place at the 1968 USSR Chess Championship in Alma Ata.

He eventually took the silver medal after losing the play-off to co-winner Lev Polugaevsky.

[1] His name is attached to the "Zaitsev Gambit" (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.h4) of the Grünfeld Defence.

[3] This biographical article relating to a Russian chess figure is a stub.