On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:58:44 GMT, (Sam Sloan)
wrote:

On 24 Oct 2004 18:23:08 GMT, (Miriling) wrote:

It is unlikely that his original name was
"something like Verukov" since his father was Greek. Chances are that his real
name was Rossolimopoulos or some Hellenic name like that.

George Mirijanian

Madame Rossolimo, who outlived him and continued to operate
Rossiolimos Chess studio after he died, told me his Russian name. He
was a chess master at an early age and won some major tournaments
under his Russian name. It might be possible to find these. She had
written a biography of him and an autobiography of herself which she
read to me from time to time. She was looking for a publisher but it
needed to be translated into English. She was from Vladavostok. Her
biography seemed interesting. I wonder if it just got thrown out after
she died, or if it still exists somewhere.

Sam Sloan

I just looked up Madame Vera Rossolimo. She died on 9 June 1995. Her
Social Security Number was 080-28-6812

You can look it up at
http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi

Sam Sloan