GMKrum Georgiev

Krum Georgiev was born in Pazardzhik in 1958. He became an international master in 1977 and shared first place in tournaments at Athens in 1978 and Thessaloniki in 1979. He finished second in the 1979 Bulgarian championship. At the 1980 Olympiad in Malta he defeated the young Garry Kasparov. He represented Bulgaria at six Olympiads between 1980 and 2000 and at three European Team Championships. He won at Pleven in 1985 and became a grandmaster in 1988. He died in Sofia in July 2024, aged 66.