Chess Survivor by Andor LilienthalChess Survivor by Andor Lilienthal In Chess Survivor The Last of the Greats a chess legend shares his life story and annotates his best games. When FIDE introduced the grandmaster title in 1950, Andor Lilienthal was one of the 27 names on that original list. And when he died at age 99, he was the last survivor of that historic group. This inspired our title. Douglas Griffin translated Lilienthals book from Russian and added 17 games to the 60 that