Mark Tseitlin

Mark Tseitlin was born in 1943 in Bishkek

Mark Tseitlin was born in 1943. He learned chess at the Pioneers Palace in Leningrad and studied the game on his own, without a coach.

He won the Leningrad championship in 1970, 1975 and 1976, and shared it in 1978. He played in Soviet championships and won first place at Polanica-Zdrój in 1978. He became an International Master in 1978 and a Grandmaster in 1997.

Tseitlin was also a trainer. He helped Anatoly Karpov and Rafael Vaganian, and his pupils included Ilya Smirin, Boris Avrukh and Alexander Finkel.

He immigrated to Israel in 1990 and settled in Beersheba, where he trained at the local chess club. In 2004 he played for Israel's team that won the first World Senior Team Championship. He won the European Seniors Championship in 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2013.

He stopped playing in competitions in 2016. He died in Beersheba in 2022.