[{"n": "Vladimir Alatortsev", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/vladimir-alatortsev/", "s": "Soviet chess player, author, and administrator."}, {"n": "Yuri Averbakh", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/yuri-averbakh/", "s": "Soviet grandmaster, endgame theorist, and chess administrator."}, {"n": "Vladimir Bagirov", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/vladimir-bagirov/", "s": "Soviet-Latvian grandmaster, author, and trainer of world champions."}, {"n": "Sergey Belavenets", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/sergey-belavenets/", "s": "Soviet chess master, theoretician, and journalist."}, {"n": "Isaac Boleslavsky", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/isaac-boleslavsky/", "s": "Soviet grandmaster and opening theorist."}, {"n": "David Bronstein", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/david-bronstein/", "s": "Soviet grandmaster who narrowly missed the world title in 1951."}, {"n": "Efim Geller", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/efim-geller/", "s": "Soviet grandmaster, two-time national champion, and world title candidate."}, {"n": "Mikhail Gurevich (chess player)", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/mikhail-gurevich-chess-player/", "s": "Soviet-born Belgian grandmaster, top-ten player, and opening expert."}, {"n": "Ilya Kan", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/ilya-kan/", "s": "Soviet IM, arbiter, writer, and Sicilian Kan variation namesake."}, {"n": "Genrikh Kasparyan", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/genrikh-kasparyan/", "s": "Armenian player and composer of endgame studies."}, {"n": "Alexander Konstantinopolsky", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/alexander-konstantinopolsky/", "s": "Soviet chess master, trainer of Bronstein, and opening theorist."}, {"n": "Alexander Kotov", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/alexander-kotov/", "s": "Soviet grandmaster, champion, and prolific chess author."}, {"n": "Nikolai Krogius", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/nikolai-krogius/", "s": "Soviet grandmaster, psychologist, and coach of Boris Spassky."}, {"n": "Grigory Levenfish", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/grigory-levenfish/", "s": "Twice Soviet champion and a pioneering grandmaster."}, {"n": "Mark Liburkin", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/mark-liburkin/", "s": "Soviet chess composer of over 110 endgame studies."}, {"n": "Rashid Nezhmetdinov", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/rashid-nezhmetdinov/", "s": "Soviet chess tactician and five-time Russian champion."}, {"n": "Vasily Panov", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/vasily-panov/", "s": "Soviet chess player, author, and opening theorist."}, {"n": "Lev Polugaevsky", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/lev-polugaevsky/", "s": "Soviet grandmaster, author, and opening theorist."}, {"n": "Ilya Rabinovich", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/ilya-rabinovich/", "s": "Russian and Soviet chess player and writer."}, {"n": "Viacheslav Ragozin", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/viacheslav-ragozin/", "s": "Soviet grandmaster, world correspondence champion, and Botvinnik's sparring partner."}, {"n": "Pyotr Romanovsky", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/pyotr-romanovsky/", "s": "Soviet chess champion and author."}, {"n": "Leonid Shamkovich", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/leonid-shamkovich/", "s": "Soviet Grandmaster and author of many chess books."}, {"n": "Mark Taimanov", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/mark-taimanov/", "s": "Soviet grandmaster, pianist, and opening theorist."}, {"n": "Vadim Teplitsky", "u": "/e/soviet-chess-writers/vadim-teplitsky/", "s": "Soviet-Israeli chess historian, journalist, and author."}]