| Anatoly Lein | |
|---|---|
 Lein at the 2003 U.S. Chess Championships in Seattle | |
| Full name | Anatoly Yakovlevich Lein |
| Country | Soviet Union United States |
| Born | March 28, 1931 Leningrad, USSR |
| Died | March 1, 2018 (aged 86) Beachwood, Ohio, US |
| Title | Grandmaster (1968) |
| Peak rating | 2545 (July 1973) |
Anatoly Yakovlevich Lein (Russian: Анатолий Яковлевич Лейн; March 28, 1931 – March 1, 2018) was a Soviet-born American chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1968.
FIDE awarded Lein the International Master title in 1964 and the Grandmaster title in 1968.[1]
Lein finished equal first at Moscow 1970, and won the 1971 Moscow championship after a play-off. He placed first at Cienfuegos 1972, first at Novi Sad 1972 and 1973, and equal first at Grand Manan 1984.
In 1976 Lein emigrated to the United States, finishing equal first with Leonid Shamkovich in the U.S. Open, and equal first with Bernard Zuckerman in the World Open that year.[1] He also played on the U.S. team in the 1978 Chess Olympiad.
Lein was New Jersey champion from 1992 through 1994. In 2005 he was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame in Miami.[2] He resided in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, until his death in 2018.[3]
Among his notable victims were two world champions, Mikhail Tal and Vassily Smyslov. Lein also scored wins against such world class grandmasters as David Bronstein, Lev Polugaevsky, Leonid Stein, and Mark Taimanov.[1]
A tribute to Lein by Internet Chess Club (ICC), in the form of a video, was presented by Joel Benjamin on March 5, 2018.[1]
