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Alla Kushnir

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “russian –born israeli chess woman grandmaster”. Today it says “soviet-born israeli chess player and professor of classics”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Soviet-born Israeli chess player”. It now reads “Soviet-Israeli chess player and classicist (1941–2013)”.
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Alla Shulimovna Kushnir ( ; Russian: Алла Шулимовна Кушнир ; born 11 August 1941, Moscow ) is a Russian –born Israeli chess Woman Grandmaster . She lost matches for the title to Nona Gaprindashvili : +3 –7 =3 at Riga 1965; +2 –6 =5 at Tbilisi–Moscow 1969; +4 –5 =7 at Riga 1972. In tournaments, she took 2nd at Tbilisi–Suchumi 1962, tied for 1st-2nd at Sinaia 1969, won at Belgrad 1971, tied for 2nd-3rd at Wijk aan Zee, won at Moscow 1971, won at Vrnjačka Banja 1973. Kushnir was a three-times winner of the Women's Chess Olympiads : in 1969 and 1972 she won the tournament as a player in the Soviet team, both times showing the best result at the 2nd board and in 1976 she won it as a player of the Israeli team, also showing the best result at the 1st board. She was also joint USSR Women's Champion in 1970. Kushnir emigrated from the Soviet Union to Israel in 1974.1

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “russian –born israeli chess woman grandmaster”. Today it says “soviet-born israeli chess player and professor of classics”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Soviet-born Israeli chess player”. It now reads “Soviet-Israeli chess player and classicist (1941–2013)”. Read the current article and compare.
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russian –born israeli chess woman grandmaster

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soviet-born israeli chess player and professor of classics

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