Yury Toshev Explained

Yury Toshev (Bulgarian: Юрий Георгиев Тошев) (24 December 1907 – 19 April 1974) was a Bulgarian chess master.

He thrice won the Bulgarian Chess Championship: 1933 (jointly with Georgy Geshev^[1] but lost a play-off match to him), 1942,^[2] and 1947 (jointly with Kamen Piskov).^[3]

He represented Bulgaria in the 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936.^[4] After World War II, he twice played for Bulgaria in Balkaniad team tournaments, and won bronze medals at Belgrade 1946^[5] and Sofia 1947.^[6]

External links

Yury Toshev chess games 365Chess.com

Notes and References

http://www.thechesslibrary.com/files/1933VarnaBulgCh.htm "Varna 1933"
http://www.thechesslibrary.com/files/1942SofiaBulgCh.htm "Sofia 1942"
http://www.thechesslibrary.com/files/1947SofiaBulgCh.htm "Sofia 1947"
http://www.olimpbase.org/1936x/1936id01.html "unofficial Chess Olympiad: Munich 1936"
http://www.olimpbase.org/1946bm/1946bul.html "1st Chess Balkaniad (men): Belgrade 1946"
http://www.olimpbase.org/1947bm/1947bul.html "2nd Chess Balkaniad (men): Sofia 1947"