{{short description|Belarusian-Russian chess player}} '''Isaak Yakovlevich Mazel''' ({{langx|ru|Исаак Яковлевич Мазель}}; {{langx|be|Ісак Якаўлевіч Мазэль}}; December 1911, in Minsk – March 31, 1945, in Tashkent) was a Soviet chess master.<ref>{{cite dictionary |editor-last=Karpov |editor-first=Anatoly |editor-link=Anatoly Karpov |dictionary=Шахматы: Энциклопедический словарь |year=1990 |publisher=Советская энциклопедия |location=Moscow |language=ru |isbn=978-5-85270-005-6 |oclc=23533106 |lccn=97214322 |title=Шахматы: энциклопедический словарь }}</ref>
He tied for 8-9th at Moscow 1931 (the 7th USSR Chess Championship, Mikhail Botvinnik won), tied for 15-16th at Leningrad 1934 (the 9th USSR-ch, Grigory Levenfish and Ilya Rabinovich won).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.geocities.com/al2055km/ch_urs.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-10-25 |archive-date=2009-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091019183859/http://geocities.com/al2055km/ch_urs.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
He shared 2nd, behind Nikolai Riumin, in Moscow City Chess Championship in 1933/34,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.geocities.com/al2055km/ch_repub/1933/ch_mos33.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-10-25 |archive-date=2009-10-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091021060028/http://geocities.com/al2055km/ch_repub/1933/ch_mos33.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> tied for 9-12th at Moscow 1936 (the 4th Trade Unions ch, Georgy Lisitsin and Vitaly Chekhover won),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.geocities.com/al2055km/nat_tour/1936/ch_tra36.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-10-25 |archive-date=2009-10-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091021060044/http://geocities.com/al2055km/nat_tour/1936/ch_tra36.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> and won ahead of Vladimirs Petrovs in Moscow City-ch in 1941/42.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://geocities.com/al2055perv/ch_repub/1941/ch_moa41.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027143152/http://geocities.com/al2055perv/ch_repub/1941/ch_moa41.html|archive-date=2009-10-27|title=Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos}}</ref> He was married to Olga Rubtsova who later became Women's Chess World Champion.
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