Isay Golyak's Gallery

FM ICCM Isay Golyak's Photo Gallery

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- Steve Capp's Approach
- Steve Capp's Games
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- Golyak Approach
- Golyak Gallery
- Golyak Games
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- Nikolayev Approach
- Nikolayev Gallery
- Nikolayev Gambit
- Nikolayev Games
- Tournament History
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- World Jr. Ch.
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USSR Youth Team Championship, Moscow, USSR, 1949. Isay Golyak vs Boris Gaiduk.

USSR Championship Semi-Final, Chelyabinsk, Russia, 1959. In the 1st row from the left GM Victor Korchnoi (3rd), Master Isay Golyak (6th). 1st in the 2nd row is Grandmaster Eduard Gufeld.

Institute of Nuclear Physics, Almaty, Kazakhstan, USSR, 1963. GM David Bronstein is the 5th from the left. Isay Golyak is the 1st on the left.

Isay Golyak with his friend the 8th World Champion GM Michail Tal, Almaty, Kazakhstan, USSR, 1969.

Isay Golyak with his friend the 8th World Champion GM Michail Tal, Almaty, Kazakhstan, USSR, 1969. After their blitz match.

International tournament in Leipzig, Germany, 1976. Isay Golyak is the 1st from the left in the 2nd row.

International tournament in Leipzig, Germany, 1977.

Isay Golyak with his friends, IM Yakov Estrin (famous theoretician) and GM Yefim Geller, Almaty, Kazakhstan, USSR, 1974.

Isay Golyak with the legendary Nona Gaprindashvili, the Sixth Women's World Champion (1962–1978), and first female Grandmaster. Almaty, Kazakhstan, USSR, 1979.

International tournament in Teteven, Bulgaria, 1980.

New York State Championship, Saratoga Springs, NY 1999. FM Isay Golyak with his friends FM Igor and Yelena Nikolayev.

Fall League, Rochester, NY 2001. Dream Team: FM Isay Golyak, Kimmy and Richard Lourette, FM Igor Nikolayev.

FM Isay Golyak and FM Igor Nikolayev play a dual simultaneous in the Rochester chess club, 2006. The result was +24=1.

FM Isay Golyak and FM Igor Nikolayev play a dual simultaneous in the Rochester chess club, 2006. The result was +24=1.

Poster from next Dual Simultaneous, 2007. This time Isay and Igor played with black pieces. The result was +22-1=2.

Rochester, NY, 2001.

Rochester, NY, 2002.

Marchand Open, Rochester, NY, 200?.

Isay Golyak in match at Kazakhstan State University, 1953.

USSR Team Cnampionship, match Kazakhstan - Uzbekistan, 19??.

Kazakhstan Youth Championship, 19??. Isay Golyak is watching as a coach.

USSR Championship Quarter-Final, Chelyabinsk, USSR, 1952. Young master Isay Golyak is in the third row, 2nd from the right. 3rd from the right in the second row is GM Semyon Furman, the future coach of World Champion GM Anatoly Karpov. 2nd from the right in the second row is the legendary IM Rashid Nezhmetdinov, 'a virtuoso of combinational chess' (David Bronstein) who achieved a plus score in the 20 games against world champions and had a lifetime 4-1 score against Tal!

Isay Golyak is visited by another big name GM Salo Flohr in 1972.