Lev Isaakovich Aptekar is a Jewish Soviet–New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master, coach and writer.

He took 15th in the Kiev championship of 1963. In the middle of 1970s, he left the Soviet Union for New Zealand. In 1975/76, he shared first with Murray Chandler

Murray Chandler

Murray Graham Chandler is a New Zealand chess grandmaster who has played internationally for that nation and for England, after gaining citizenship there in the early 1980s...

 and Ortvin Sarapu

Ortvin Sarapu

Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...

 in the 83rd New Zealand Championships

New Zealand Chess Championship

The New Zealand Chess Championship was first conducted in 1879.Note: Up until 1934 foreign players were eligible for the title. The eligibility rules were changed in 1935 to preclude this; John Angus Erskine was born in Invercargill and was therefore eligible although he was domiciled in...

 in Upper Hutt. In 1976/77, he took 6th in Auckland (84th NZL-ch, Sarapu won). In 1979/80, he took 6th in Upper Hutt (87th NZL-ch, Sarapu, Small and Green won). In 1980/81, he tied for 7-9th in Christchurch (88th NZL-ch, Sarapu, Small and Nokes won).

Aptekar represented New Zealand in 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.-Birth of the Olympiad:The first Olympiad was unofficial...

s:

• In 1980, at fourth board in 24th Olympiad in La Valletta (+3 –4 =4);
• In 1988, at 2nd reserve board in 28th Olympiad in Thessaloniki but really the non-playing captain.

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