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Twice women's senior world champion, died yesterday (link in Russian).

Ended up in Israel, as with a large number of ex-Soviet players.

Tatiana Zatulovskaya will also be remembered in England because of her cameo appearance in the Hastings Challengers some 50 years ago, when for several rounds she was in contention to qualify for the next year's Premier, made a hit with her vivacity and charm, and stole the heart of a well-known English IM.

Come on, Leonard, tell us who the IM was.

I'll give you a clue.

The IM once said something like "Hasn't anybody told this boy not to accept pawns from strange men?"

Sounds like soft pawn to me.

Was it Boxing Bill Goggle?

Of course, he ended up with a Czech mate instead (for a while)

Very neat! He was on my shortlist.