Wall Street’s Best-Kept Secret Is a 72-Year-Old Russian Chess Expert
ByFor over two decades, Lev Alburt has been teaching strategy, patience, and prognostication to the finest in finance.
On East 83rd Street there’s a squat brick walk-up that’s a viable contender for the least fancy apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. But for the past 25 years, Wall Street machers and captains of industry have marched up to its gray-carpeted third floor to learn the secrets of attack and defense from Lev Alburt, a three-time U.S. chess champion and one of the most prominent Soviet defectors of the 1970s. Alburt has long been giving patter-filled private lessons to New Yorkers from all walks of life, encouraging, cajoling, and reprimanding men and women as they attempt to learn the so-called game of kings…
Wall Street’s Best-Kept Secret Is a 72-Year-Old Russian Chess Expert
