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Itchak Radashkovich

Itchak Radashkovich is an Israeli chess player who received the FIDE International Master title in 1976.

born 1947International Master title in chessPlaying for Israel at the 1974 OlympiadShared win in Netanya, 1976

Born: 4 July 1947, Saint Petersburg
Occupation: chess player
Education: Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics

Itchak Radashkovich was born in 1947 in Saint Petersburg

Itchak Radashkovich was born on 4 July 1947 in Saint Petersburg. He learned chess at a pioneer house and later joined the Leningrad youth team. After school he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics.

In 1968 he placed second in the semifinals of the Burevestnik championship and met the Soviet master norm. In 1969 he shared second place in the Leningrad city championship and played in the Soviet championship semifinals in Barnaul, where he won a beauty prize. In the early 1970s he was a presenter of a local chess television program.

He emigrated to Israel in 1973 and won the side tournament in Netanya that year. He played for Israel at the 1974 Chess Olympiad in Nice and in European team championship preliminaries in 1977 and 1980. In 1976 he shared first place in Netanya with Avraham Kaldor.

In the 1980s he retired from tournament chess. He then worked as an entrepreneur and manager in the IT industry.