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Nikolay (or Nikolai) Nikolaev Minev was born in Rousse
Rousse

Rousse is the fifth-largest city in Bulgaria with a population of near 175,600. Rousse is situated in the northeastern part of the country, on the right bank of the Danube, opposite the Romanian city of Giurgiu, 300 kilometre from the capital Sofia and 200 km from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast....
, Bulgaria
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
, on 8 November 1931. He is a chess
Chess

Chess is a recreational and competitive game played between two Player . Sometimes called Western chess or international chess to distinguish it from History of chess and other chess variants, the current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from similar, much older...
 International master
International Master

The title International Master is awarded to outstanding chess players by the world chess organization F?d?ration Internationale des ?checs. The title is open to both men and women....
 (IM) and a noted author of chess books.

Minev received the IM title in 1960. He was the champion of Bulgaria
Bulgarian Chess Championship

The Bulgarian Chess Championship is an event inaugurated in 1933 to crown the best chess player in Bulgaria. The championship has been held on a nearly annual basis since, with only a few years missed....
 in 1953, 1965, and 1966. He played for Bulgaria in the Chess Olympiad
Chess Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event is organised by FIDE, which selects the host nation....
 six times (1954, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1962, and 1966). Minev's best international results were: third at Varna in 1960, second at Warsaw in 1961, tie for first at Sombor in 1966, and second at Albena in 1975.






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Nikolay (or Nikolai) Nikolaev Minev was born in Rousse
Rousse

Rousse is the fifth-largest city in Bulgaria with a population of near 175,600. Rousse is situated in the northeastern part of the country, on the right bank of the Danube, opposite the Romanian city of Giurgiu, 300 kilometre from the capital Sofia and 200 km from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast....
, Bulgaria
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
, on 8 November 1931. He is a chess
Chess

Chess is a recreational and competitive game played between two Player . Sometimes called Western chess or international chess to distinguish it from History of chess and other chess variants, the current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from similar, much older...
 International master
International Master

The title International Master is awarded to outstanding chess players by the world chess organization F?d?ration Internationale des ?checs. The title is open to both men and women....
 (IM) and a noted author of chess books.

Minev received the IM title in 1960. He was the champion of Bulgaria
Bulgarian Chess Championship

The Bulgarian Chess Championship is an event inaugurated in 1933 to crown the best chess player in Bulgaria. The championship has been held on a nearly annual basis since, with only a few years missed....
 in 1953, 1965, and 1966. He played for Bulgaria in the Chess Olympiad
Chess Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event is organised by FIDE, which selects the host nation....
 six times (1954, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1962, and 1966). Minev's best international results were: third at Varna in 1960, second at Warsaw in 1961, tie for first at Sombor in 1966, and second at Albena in 1975. He contributed to eary editions of the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings
Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings

The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings is a classification system for the opening moves in a game of chess. It is presented as a five volume book collection describing chess openings....
 and the Encyclopaedia of Chess Endings (see chess endgame literature
Chess endgame literature

Chess endgame literature refers to books and magazines about chess endgames. A bibliography of endgame books is below.Many chess writers have contributed to the Chess_theory#Endgame_theory over the centuries, including Ruy L?pez de Segura, Fran?ois-Andr? Danican Philidor, Josef Kling and Bernhard Horwitz, Johann Berger, Alexey Troitsky, Yu...
). Minev and his wife immigrated to the United States in the mid 1980s.

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