# Alexander Roshal

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{{Short description|Soviet chess player, journalist, and magazine editor}}
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thumb|Alexander Roshal<br>2002 at Dortmund
'''Alexander Borisovich Roshal''' ({{langx|ru|Алекса́ндр Бори́сович Роша́ль}}; {{Birth date|1936|8|26}}, in [Moscow](/source/Moscow) – {{death date|2007|5|21}}, there) was a Soviet-born Russian [chess](/source/chess) player and journalist, the co-founder and editor of the magazine ''[64](/source/64_(chess_magazine))''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3876|title=Chess News: Alexander Borisovich Roshal dies at 71|date=2007-05-22|publisher=ChessBase.com|accessdate=13 December 2010}}</ref>

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