Given the question: Mark Evgenievich Taimanov (Russian: ; born 7 February 1926 Kharkiv) is a leading Soviet and Russian chess player and concert pianist. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
The answer is:
Athlete