(Sam Sloan) writes:

On 24 Oct 2004 15:26:53 GMT, OTHERE (Fifiela) wrote:

The only grandmasters there were Rossolimo and
later Spassky, both transplanted Russians.

Rossolimo was Russian?

A web search shows that Rossolimo is not an unheard of
Russian name.

With the name, I would assume Italian.

Yes. Rossolimo was from Kiev. Rossolimo was not his original name. His
original name was something like Verukov.

The Oxford Companion says that Rossolimo's father was
Greek, mother Ukrainian.

He changed it to Rossolimo
in order to become a citizen of France.

That wouldn't have been necessary.

William Hyde
EOS Department
Duke University