Peter Iordansky

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Peter Konstantinovich Yurdansky (Yurdanski, Yordansky, Jordansky) (1891–1937) was a Russian and later Soviet chess player.

He won Moscow City Chess Championship in 1913 and tied for 8-9th at Moscow 1913, shared 2nd at Mannheim 1914 tournament (the 19th DSB Congress, Hauptturnier B), took 2nd at Moscow 1915, took 3rd at Moscow 1916, tied for 7-8th at Moscow 1924, and took 10th at Moscow 1925.http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01

His name is attached with the Yurdansky Attack in the Two Knights Defense (ECO: C56) 13.b4.[http://chess-ref.org/opening.php?id=1285 Chess-Ref.org Opening]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} at chess-ref.org