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 Today In Chess HistoryJul 16, 1829: Alexander Cywinski von Puchala, Austrian composer,was born in Vienna, Austria. Jul 16, 1882: Alberto Fidi was born in Catania, Italy. Jul 16, 1914: Carl Kockelkorn died in Koeln, Germany. Jul 16, 1917: Vincenz Hruby died in Trieste, Italy. Jul 16, 1923: William Geary died, England. Jul 16, 1930: Horst Rittner was born in Breslau, Germany,now Poland. Jul 16, 1936: Samuel Schweber was born, Argentina. Jul 16, 1956: Karel Hromadka died in Prague, Czech Republ. Jul 16, 1964: Ashot Anastasian was born, Armenia. Jul 16, 1967: Colm Daly was born, Ireland. SOURCE: Chess History Forum, Chess.com: www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History Jul 17, 1877: Stefano Rosselli Del Turco was born in Firenze, Italy (died Aug 18, 1947 in Firenze, Italy). Jul 17, 1905: John Lindsay McCutcheon died in Pittsburgh, PA, USA (born May 28, 1857 in Allegheny, PA). Jul 17, 1907: Fortunato Amodei was born in Samo di Calabria, Italy (died Oct 24, 1981 in Milano, Italy). Jul 17, 1917, Arturo Reggio died in Milano, Italy (born Jan 19, 1863, in Gorizia, Italy). Jul 17, 1952: Vasily Nikolayevich Platov died in Moskva, USSR (born Mar 24, 1881 in Riga, Latvia, USSR). SOURCE: www.maskeret.com |
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Today’s Highlight in History On this date: 64 AD – The Great Fire of Rome begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control. 390 BC – Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia – a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome. Coming Soon: Today In Chess History. Stay Tuned! |
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Today In Chess History 1810: Pongracz, Arnold was born in Nedecz, Czech Republic. 1821: Schmidt, Eugen von was born in Mohn Island, Estonia, USSR. 1843: Kohtz, Johannes was born in Elbing, Poland 1866: Steinitz-Anderssen chess match in London. 1882: Carra', Arturo was born in Migliarino, Italy. 1896: Palatz, Franz Ferdinand Ludwig was born in Hamburg, Germany. 1901: Prokop, Frantisek Josef was born in Horovice, Czech Republic. 1940: Marotti Davide died in Napoli, Italy. 1943: Chadwick, Stanley Hathaway died in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. 1958: Vignoli, Luigi died in Arezzo, Italy. 1972: Stefansson, Hannes was born in Iceland. 1983: Flohr, Salomon Mikhailovic died in Moskva, USSR. SOURCE: www.maskeret.com |
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Today In Chess History 1883: Delannoy, Alphonse died in Enghien, Belgium 1890: Fink, Adolf Jay was born in San Francisco, California, USA. 1918: Nobile, Salvatore was born in Palermo, Italy. 1935: Bull, Cecil Alfred Lucas died in Durban, South Africa. 1941: Perkonoja, Pauli Kalervo was born in Messukyla, Finland. 1946: Goumondy, Claude was born in Belmont, Bas Rhin, France. 1959: Nogueiras Santiago, Jose' de Jesus was born in Remedios, Cuba. 1968: Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan was born in Georgia. 1970: Sofieva, Ainur was born in Azerbaijan. SOURCE: SOURCE: www.maskeret.com |
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Today In Chess History 1833: Klett, Maximilian Philipp Friedrich von was born in Ludwigsburg, Germany. He died Oct 1, 1910 in Calw bei Stuttgart, Germany. Biographical data: German problem composer. 1870: Heathcote, Godfrey was born in Manchester, England. He died Apr 24, 1952 in Cheltenham, England. 1914: McCormick, Edgar Thomas was born in New York, New York, USA. He died in 1991. Trivia: Participant of more U.S. Open chess tournaments than any other person (37 times). In World War II he was a cryptographer. He won the U.S. Amateur Championship in 1961, and again in 1990, at the age of 75. 1920: Aronin, Lev Solomovich was born in Kuznetzk, Russia. He died Oct 4, 1982 in Moscow, Russia. Biographical data: Soviet player, engineer-meteorologist, International Master, 1950. 1929: Kennedy, Patrick Brendan was born in Clarecastle, Ireland. he died Jun 9, 1966 in Nottingham, England. Biographical data: Irish player, professor of mathematics. Irish Champion, 1949. 1954: Boudre, Jean Pierre was born in France. Biographical data: French player. International Master. 1960: Pozzi, Enrico was born in Legnano, Italy. Biographical data: Italian player. 1964: Colman, Eugene Ernest died in London, England. He was born Oct 11, 1878 in Merton, England. Biographical data: British player. 1972: Howard, Kenneth Samuel died in Morristown, New Jersey, USA. He was born Apr 12, 1882 in LeRoy, New York, USA. Biographical data: US composer. Titles IJCOMP - International Judge of Chess Composition, 1957. 1996: Tamburini, Mario died in Bologna, Italy. He was born Jun 1, 1933 in Bologna, Italy. Biographical data: Italian player and study composer. SOURCE: www.maskeret.com |
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Today In Chess History July 21 - Today In Chess History: Jul 21, 1838: Johann Nepomuk Maelzel died in Abort ship, La Guaira, Venezuela. Jul 21, 1857: Miksa Weiss was born in Szered, Czech Republ. Jul 21, 1861: George Nelson Cheney, US composer, died in Bull Run, Virginia, USA. Jul 21, 1861: Albert Hodges was born in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Jul 21, 1875: Gaetano Nicolosi was born in Linguaglossa, Italy. Jul 21, 1876: Johann Jacob Lowenthal died in Hastings, England. Jul 21, 1957: Vladimir Malaniuk was born in Arkhangelsk, USSR. Jul 21, 1958: Dimitar Donchev was born in Szumen, Bulgaria. Jul 21, 1960: Ugo Lancia, Italian composer, died in Messina, Italy. Jul 21, 1967: Walter Arencibia was born in Holguin, Cuba. Jul 21, 2000: Vladimir Bagirov died in Jyvaskyli , Finland. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History Miksa (Max) Weiss (July 21, 1857 – March 14, 1927) was an Austrian chess player born in the Kingdom of Hungary. Weiss was born in Sereď. Moving to Vienna, he studied mathematics and physics at the university, and later taught those subjects. Weiss learned to play chess at age 12, and his strength increased steadily throughout the 1880s. 1880, Graz, tied with Adolf Schwarz and Johannes von Minckwitz for first prize. 1882, Vienna, tenth, won two games from Johann Zukertort, and drew with Wilhelm Steinitz. 1883, Nuremberg, tenth. 1885, Hamburg, tied with Berthold Englisch and Siegbert Tarrasch for second prize. 1887, Frankfort-on-the-Main, divided second and third prizes with Joseph Henry Blackburne. 1888, Bradford, tied with Blackburne for sixth prize. 1889, New York, (the sixth American Chess Congress), scored +24−4=10 to tie with Mikhail Chigorin for first prize, ahead of Isidor Gunsberg and Blackburne. 1889, Breslau, third prize. 1890, Vienna, first prize, ahead of Johann Bauer and Englisch. The New York 1889 tournament was organized to find a challenger for the World Chess Championship, but neither Chigorin (who had already lost a championship match) nor Weiss pursued a title match with Steinitz. In fact, having become one of the top players in the world, Weiss quit international chess after this tournament, though he did play a few Viennese events. In 1895 he defeated Georg Marco in a match, +5 −1 =1, and he tied for first in the 1895–6 winter tournament with Carl Schlechter. Around this time, Weiss began working to create a Viennese school of chess players. In 1905 Weiss was employed by S M von Rothschild bank in Vienna. His chess writings, Schach-Meistersteich (Mühlhausen 1918), Kleines Schachlehrbuch (Mühlhausen 1920), and the earlier problem collection Caissa Bambergensis (Bamberg 1902), are little remembered today. In 1927 Weiss died in Vienna, Austria. en.wikipedia.org Johann Nepomuk Mälzel (August 15, 1772 - July 21, 1838) was an inventor, engineer, and showman, best known for manufacturing a metronome and several music automatons, and displaying a fraudulent chess machine. Mälzel was born in Regensburg (Germany) as the son of an organ builder. He received a comprehensive musical education and moved to Vienna in 1792. There he invented the panharmonicon, an automaton able to play the musical instruments of a military band, powered by bellows and directed by revolving cylinders storing the notes. In 1813 he met Beethoven and convinced him to write a piece for the panharmonicon, "Wellington's Victory" (Op. 91). Rewritten for orchestra, it was first performed in 1813 and later caused a bitter conflict between the two men, when Mälzel claimed ownership of the piece and Beethoven sued. Earlier, Mälzel had constructed several ear trumpets to help Beethoven with his hearing. Mälzel also constructed a trumpet automaton and a speaking doll with moving eyes. In 1815, Mälzel constructed and patented a portable metronome, to this day known as Mälzel's Metronome (MM). The metronome had been invented earlier by Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel, and Mälzel used several of Winkel's construction ideas. Wolfgang von Kempelen had constructed a chess machine in 1769. It consisted of a chess table and a mechanical life-size puppet dressed as a Turk (which gave the machine its name) sitting behind the table. The puppet mechanically moved the chess pieces. Under the table an elaborate mechanism could be shown to the public; behind that mechanism a small chess player was hidden. Von Kempelen went on tour with the Turk, attracting much attention. Early on, several writers suspected a hidden human player, but others philosophized about the implications of the mechanization of intelligence. After von Kempelen's death in 1804, Mälzel acquired the machine from von Kempelen's son, and again went on tour with it. At that time, the hidden chess player was William Lewis. In 1825 the British mathematician Robert Willies wrote a study, detailing how a chess player could hide below the table. In the same year, Mälzel left Europe for New York and exhibited the Turk on the East Coast of the United States, leading again to several newspapers reports. He modified the machine so that it could also play Whist. Already after a few months, several clones of the machine were being exhibited by others. But then two youths in Baltimore oversaw how the chess player William Schlumberger climbed out of the Turk, leading to articles in the Baltimore Gazette explaining the fraud. Edgar Allan Poe, apparently unaware of this article, wrote another analysis of the machine, attempting to expose the fraud. It was titled "Maelzel's Chess Player" and published in the April 1836 issue of the Southern Literary Messenger. Schlumberger later died of yellow fever. Mälzel started to drink and grew ill on a ship making a return trip to Philadelphia. He was buried at sea on the spot, which at that time was off the coast of Charleston, SC. The Turk was destroyed in 1854 during a museum fire in Philadelphia. en.wikipedia.org Albert Beauregard Hodges (21 July 1861 - 3 February 1944) was an American chess master. As one of the most well-known American chess players of the late 19th century, Hodges played an important role in transforming chess from a pleasant pastime into a social institution. In 1894, he lost a match to Jackson Whipps Showalter (8 : 10), and won a rematch (5.5 : 3.5), both in New York. Hodges became U.S. Champion, but announced that his ambitions in chess had been fulfilled, and that he was retiring to pursue a career in business. In addition to his reign as U.S. Champion, Hodges main claim to fame was playing inside Ajeeb, the 19th century chess automaton. At the beginning of his career, he lost a match to Max Judd (3 : 6) at St. Louis 1887, won at Chittenango 1890, shared second place, behind Hanham, at Skaneateles 1891, won a match against Eugene Delmar (5 : 0) at Skaneateles 1892, drew a match with Adolf Albin (4 : 4) at New York 1893, won at New York 1893, took second place, behind Harry Nelson Pillsbury, at New York 1893, took third place at Skaneateles 1895 (Quadrangular), took second place at Thousand Islands 1897 (Pillsbury won), took third place at New York 1900 (S. Lipschütz won), and tied for 14-15th at Cambridge Springs 1904 (Frank James Marshall won). Hodges participated seven times in cable matches between USA and England (1902-1911), and played several times for Manhattan Chess Club in friendly matches against Chicago Chess Club and Franklin Chess Club of Pennsylvania in the early 20th century. He tied for ninth/tenth at New York 1911 (Marshall won), tied for fifth/sixth at New York 1914 (Edward Lasker won), tied for seventh/eighth at New York 1915 (José Raúl Capablanca, tied for 10-11th at New York 1916 (Capablanca won), took fourth at New York 1921 (Quadrangular), and took 11th at Lake Hopatcong 1923 (the ninth American Chess Congress, Marshall and Abraham Kupchik won). en.wikipedia.org Vladimir Pavlovich Malaniuk (Malanyuk) (born July 21, 1957, Arkhangelsk, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian chess master. Considered by many to be one of the more colourful characters on the chess circuit, he has an extraordinary talent for rapid chess, which has been demonstrated at some of the world's most prestigious 'speed chess' tournaments. In 2005, he finished second at the Tallinn (Keres Memorial) rapid event, behind Alexey Shirov but ahead of such luminaries as Anatoly Karpov and Boris Gelfand. The same year, he took the silver medal at the European Rapid Championship, behind the strong Hungarian Grandmaster (GM) Zoltan Gyimesi. His sustained efforts were again rewarded in 2006, when at the Ajaccio Open Rapid event, he finished clear winner, ahead of a large group of strong GMs and Super-GMs including Kasimdzhanov, Milov, Bareev, Motylev, Bologan, Almasi, Smirin, Sokolov, Naiditsch, Sasikirin and Van Wely. Whilst it is rare that older players can achieve this kind of success against more youthful talents, it is not completely unknown. Yuri Balashov is another mature player who enjoys success in such events and it is probable that good quality rapid chess relies as much on intuition as calculation and stamina, giving the experienced professional good chances against younger, sharper, but less knowledgeable minds. Malaniuk has also been a strong player at standard time limits, winning many national and international tournaments, including Minsk 1985, Kostroma 1985 (USSR Ch. Semi-final), Lvov 1986 and Frunze 1987 on the road to securing his Grandmaster title (awarded in 1987). There were further victories recorded at Forlì in 1990 and 1992, Porto San Giorgio 1994, Minsk 1997 Krasnodar 2001, Arkhangelsk 2002, Krasnodar 2002, Koszalin 2002, Kolobrzeg 2003, Kraków 2003 and Mielno 2006. Notable runner-up performances include Baku 1983, Tallinn 1987, Lvov 1988, Świdnica 2001 and Kraków 2004. He was a regular participant of the Soviet Championships between 1983 and 1991; his best finish occurring in 1986, when he shared second place behind Vitaly Tseshkovsky. In Ukraine, he has thus far been the national champion on three occasions, in 1980, 1981 and 1986. In team chess, he played for Ukraine in the Moscow 1994, Yerevan 1996 and Elista 1998 Chess Olympiads, winning team silver and bronze medals in '96 and '98, respectively. Malaniuk has been credited with an important contribution to chess opening theory. Along with Sergey Dolmatov, Mikhail Gurevich and Evgeny Bareev, his faithful adherence to the Leningrad Dutch Defence (described as a hybrid of the Dutch and the King's Indian) helped shape a dynamic new approach to the system in the 1980s and this led to a dramatic resurgence of interest. That it affords black the opportunity to unbalance the position and fight for the full point is probably its main attraction. The system has since become a popular choice for players at all levels, following the publication of a number of books and theoretical guides. In a more minor capacity, he and Vladimir Akopian are noted for their attempts at reviving the Spielmann variation (4.Qb3) of the Nimzo-Indian Defence, but have not met with any real success. In 2001, Russian player and chess journalist Evgeny Atarov reported that Malaniuk was severely ill and was undergoing a number of surgical operations, the funding of which had become a cause for concern. en.wikipedia.org Vladimir Bagirov (Baku, August 16, 1936 – Finland, July 21, 2000) was a Soviet-Azerbaijani-Latvian Grandmaster of chess, a chess author, and a chess trainer. He played in ten USSR Championships, with his best result fourth place in his debut in 1960. Bagirov was World Senior Champion in 1998. He died of a heart attack while playing a tournament game in Finland. Vladimir Konstantinovich Bagirov showed chess talent as a youth, and came under the wing of the Master and trainer Vladimir Makogonov. He made his debut in the semi-finals of the Soviet Championship in 1957, but did not advance to the final. Bagirov qualified for the final for the first time in 1960, and made an excellent 4th place at URS-ch27 in Leningrad; the winner was Viktor Korchnoi. He was selected to the Soviet team for the European Team Championship at Oberhausen 1961, and played for the Soviet Student Olympiad team in 1961. Bagirov was awarded his International Master title in 1963, but had to wait until 1978 to be formally recognized as a Grandmaster, although his 1960 Soviet Championship result showed he was clearly at that level. Bagirov moved into training work in the 1970s, and for a short time in 1975, as Azerbaijan national coach, was the sole trainer of future World Champion Gary Kasparov. Following a dispute with chess officials, Bagirov moved to Latvia in the late 1970s, and coached former World Champion Mikhail Tal, and future Grandmasters Alexei Shirov and Alexander Shabalov. Bagirov was a well-regarded openings theoretician, with one of his favourites the unusual Alekhine's Defence. He published two books and a CD-Rom from 1994 to 2000. Following the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Bagirov played more tournament chess than he ever had before, taking part in many Open tournaments in Europe. He maintained a good standard, and won the 1998 World Senior Championship at Grieskirchen, Austria, with 8.5/11. Bagirov died while playing a tournament in Finland in 2000. He had started the Heart of Finland Open event with three straight wins to take the lead, and, following a time scramble, was in a winning position in round four against Teemu Laasanan, but suffered a heart attack, and died the next day, on July 21, 2000. en.wikipedia.org Walter Arencibia (born July 21, 1967) is a Cuban chess player. He learned chess at the age of eight and has won various tournaments, including the 1986 World Junior Chess Championship. He became a Grandmaster in 1990. Other tournament victories include the Cuban Youth Championships in 1985, and cowinning the Canadian Open Chess Championship in 2006, along with Abhijt Kunte. He has also represented Cuba at many Chess Olympiads from 1986 to 2006. His current FIDE rating is 2516 which places him tenth in Cuba and 653rd in the world. en.wikipedia.org SOURCE OF QUOTES: www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History Jul 22, 1817: Theodor Herlin, French composer, was born in Lille, France. Jul 22, 1872: Richard Griffith was born in London, England. Jul 22, 1883: Joseph Plachutta, Slovenian problemist died. Jul 22, 1896: Luigi Paletto died in Pino Torinese, Italy. Jul,22, 1897: Elliott Laucks was born in York, Pennsylvania, USA. Jul 22, 1930: Nikolai Krogius was born in Saratov, USSR. Jul 22, 1933: Adolf George Olland died in Gravenhage, Nederlands. Jul 22, 1935: Yakov Vladimirov, Russian composer, was born in Moskva, USSR. Jul 22, 1940: Alexandra van der Mije was born, Romania. Jul 22, 1970: Gaetano Del Pezzo died in Napses, Italy. Jul 22, 1975: Pawel Jaracz was born in Kozuchow, Poland. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History Richard Clewin Griffith (22 July 1872, London – 11 December 1955, Hendon, London) was a British chess player, author and editor. He was educated at Charterhouse School. He won the British Chess Championship in 1912 at Richmond, at his only appearance in the event. Also in 1912, he was the original co-author with John Herbert White of the famous chess book, Modern Chess Openings, which has gone into many editions up to the present day. He was the editor of the British Chess Magazine, 1920–1937 and again for some months in 1940. During World War II Griffith was the honorary treasurer of the British Chess Federation, and a member of its council and executive. By profession, he was a metallurgist for an assaying company. en.wikipedia.org Joseph Plachutta, also Josef Plachutta or Josip Plahuta (* 13 May 1827 in Zadar, Austrian Empire, today's Croatia, † 22 July 1883) was a Slovene descent chess problemist and chess player, known for his famous problem with Plachutta theme. www.chess.com Nikolai Krogius (sometimes spelled Nikolay) (born Saratov, July 22, 1930) is a Russian Chess Grandmaster, psychologist, chess coach, chess administrator, and author. He won several tournament titles at Sochi and in eastern European events, and appeared in seven Soviet finals from 1958-1971. His peak was in 1967 when he ranked 18th in the world for a time. He earned his doctorate in psychology, and specialized in sports psychology. He coached World Champion Boris Spassky for several years, also served as President of the Soviet Chess Federation, and co-authored five chess books. He was the co-winner of the 1993 World Senior Championship. Nikolai V. Krogius scored 4.5/15 for a tied 13th-14th place at Leningrad 1946 in the Soviet Junior Championship; the winner was Tigran Petrosian. Krogius made his first creditable result in Master company at Leningrad 1949, tallying 8/17 for a tied 12th-15th in a very good field; this was a Soviet Championship semi-final, and he did not advance to the final. He also missed advancing from the Soviet semi-final at Leningrad 1951, although complete results from this are unavailable. He competed in three Russian Championships: at Yaroslavl 1951, in his home town of Saratov in 1953, and at Rostov-on-Don in 1954, but complete results of these events are also unavailable. Krogius was selected for the Soviet team for Oslo 1954, the World Student Olympiad, where he scored 7.5/9 (+7 =1 -1) on board three, and won team silver. At Leningrad 1955-56, a Soviet semi-final, Krogius scored 9/18 for a tied 11th-14th place in an excellent field. He was gradually working his way up through the deep Soviet chess hierarchy. In the Soviet semi-final at Tbilisi 1956, he scored 11/19 for seventh place, and missed advancing to the final by half a point. Krogius qualified for his first Soviet final by scoring 11.5/19, for a tied 5th-7th place, in the semi-final at Leningrad 1957. The final was at Riga 1958, URS-ch25, and he debuted strongly with 9.5/18 and a tied 9th-11th place; the winner was Mikhail Tal. Although he did not as yet earn an international title for this, it showed that he was of at least International Master standard by this time, because of the immense strength of the Soviet finals. He made his first appearances for the USSR in team matches against Bulgaria (Sofia 1957) and Yugoslavia (Zagreb 1958), scoring 50 percent in both. At Tbilisi for URS-ch26, he scored just 6.5/19 for 18th place; the winner was Petrosian. He improved at Leningrad for URS-ch27, scoring 10/19 for a tied 9th-10th place, as Viktor Korchnoi won. Krogius earned his first international opportunity for Varna 1960, where he tied for 1st-2nd with Nikola Padevsky on 8/12. At Yerevan for URS-ch30, he scored 8.5/19 for 11th place, as Korchnoi won again. He scored 6.5/11 for a tied 3rd-4th place at Sochi 1963, as Lev Polugaevsky won. Krogius earned his International Master title in 1963. Krogius scored his most impressive triumph with clear first at the Chigorin Memorial in Sochi 1964 on 11/15. This earned him the Grandmaster title later that year. At Kiev 1964-65 for URS-ch32, he scored 10.5/19 for a tied 8th-9th place; Korchnoi won again. Krogius was fifth at Sochi 1965 with 8.5/15; the winners were Boris Spassky and Wolfgang Unzicker. He was selected for the USSR team for Hamburg 1965, the European Team Championships, where he played on board nine, scored 4.5/8 (+2 =5 -1), won the gold medal on his board, and was part of the gold-medal winning team. He was 4th at Budapest 1965 with 10/15, as Lev Polugaevsky, Laszlo Szabo, and Mark Taimanov shared first place. In URS-ch34 at Tbilisi 1966, Krogius scored 11/20 for 8th place, as Leonid Stein won. A sure sign of favour in high circles was his first trip to Western Europe for an individual tournament, Le Havre 1966, which celebrated the 900th anniversary of the voyage which led to the Norman Conquest of England. Since the Soviet Chess Federation controlled all foreign invitations, opportunities outside the Soviet bloc were highly sought, and many players with better results, such as Ratmir Kholmov, never received one during their prime years. Krogius performed well with a shared 2nd-3rd place on 7/11; the winner was Bent Larsen. Krogius scored 10/15 at Sochi 1966 for a shared 3rd-4th place, as Korchnoi won. He made one of his top career results with a shared 1st-5th place at Sochi 1967 on 10/15; the other co-winners were Boris Spassky, Alexander Zaitsev, Leonid Shamkovich, and Vladimir Simagin. At Sarajevo 1967, Krogius scored 9.5/15 for a shared 3rd-4th place; the winners were Anatoly Lein and Dragoljub Ciric. Krogius scored his career peak rating around this time. Chessmetrics.com ranks him at 2686 in September 1967, good for #18 in the world, and he ranked 17th in the world from January to March 1968. Sochi 1964 was a 2703 performance, as was Sochi 1966. Krogius shared 2nd-3rd places at Polanica Zdroj 1969 with 9.5/15; Laszlo Barczay won. Krogius won at Varna 1969. Krogius earned his doctorate in psychology, and specialized in sports psychology. He served as part of Boris Spassky's team for his second world title match against Tigran Petrosian at Moscow 1969, where Spassky won a tight struggle. Krogius was again selected to assist Spassky against Bobby Fischer at Reykjavík 1972, in the Match of the Century, won by Fischer. Krogius himself was still keeping up an active and successful tournament schedule during these years. He tied 2nd-5th places at Hastings 1969-70 with 5/9, behind winner Lajos Portisch. He placed 2nd in the Russian Championship at Kuibyshev 1970, behind winner Anatoly Karpov. At Leningrad for URS-ch39, his last Soviet final, he scored 10.5/21 for a tied 10th-11th place, as Vladimir Savon won. Krogius placed tied 3rd-4th at Sochi 1973 with 9/15 as Mikhail Tal won. Overall, he tallied 67/135 in his seven Soviet finals, from 1958 to 1971, for just under 50 percent, and had six solid appearances out of seven, with only 1959 being much below standard. Krogius scaled back his tournament play by the mid-1970s, playing only in occasional lower-level events. He began important contributions as a chess author, eventually writing or co-writing five chess books. He moved into chess administration as well. He was the captain of the USSR team for the USSR vs. Rest of the World match at London 1984. He served as President of the USSR Chess Federation, and was the head of delegation for Anatoly Karpov's team for the 1990 title match against Garry Kasparov at New York and Lyon, where Kasparov won narrowly. Krogius returned to high-class tournament play at the Senior level in the 1990s. In the 1991 World Senior Championship at Bad Woerishofen, he scored 8/11 to tie for 3rd-6th places. He tied for the title at the World Senior Championship at Bad Wildbad 1993, with 8.5/11, along with Lein, Taimanov, Bukhuti Gurgenidze, and Boris Arkhangelsky. Krogius stayed fairly active in tournament play until 1998, mostly at the Senior level. There is a file of 741 of his games at mychess.com; chessbase.com has 692 of his games, while chessgames.com has 248 of his games. Many of these games would be duplicated between sites. Krogius was somewhat of a late bloomer by Soviet standards, although this was not that uncommon for players who lived through the Second World War during their formative chess years; other examples are Efim Geller and Semyon Furman, both of whom eventually became formidable players by their late 20s. Krogius had several failed attempts at reaching the Soviet final, and did not make his first one until age 27. His graduate studies were the priority until he finished his doctorate. However, when he did get opportunities at high level, he usually made the most of them, and scored several notable tournament victories in high-standard events during his peak years in the 1960s. He was a middle-range player at the perilous Soviet finals level. Krogius is a very interesting and unusual figure in chess history, since he chose the career of a professional sports psychologist, concentrating on chess, and may have been the first to follow this precise path. In his role as coach, he was undoubtedly an important part of Boris Spassky's team for the world title matches of 1969 and 1972, and maintained a successful tournament program himself during this period. His own playing style was often highly tactical in nature, and he defeated many acknowledged masters of tactical play. By his mid-40s, Krogius appeared less frequently in major events, and moved on to writing and chess administration, also with notable success. He returned to the board after age 60, with some impressive results in Senior events. en.wikipedia.org Adolf Georg Olland (13 April 1867 – 22 July 1933) was the leading Dutch chess master in the time before Max Euwe. Born in Utrecht, he was a medical doctor. Olland took 3rd at Amsterdam 1887 (Dirk van Foreest won); shared 1st at Amsterdam 1889 (Hauptturnier); took 2nd, behind Rudolf Loman, at Utrecht 1891; took 5th at Groningen 1893 (Loman won); took 2nd, behind Loman, at Rotterdam 1894; shared 1st at Arnheim 1895; took 2nd at Amsterdam 1899 behind Henry Ernest Atkins; took 2nd, behind Rudolf Swiderski, at Munich 1900 (12th DSB–Congress, Hauptturnier). Olland won at Haarlem 1901; took 8th at Hannover 1902 (13th DSB–Congress, Dawid Janowski won); took 19th at Carlsbad 1907 (Akiba Rubinstein won). He shared 1st with Abraham Speijer at Leiden 1909 (1st NED-ch); took 4th at Stockholm 1912 (8th Nordic-ch, Alexander Alekhine won); took 3rd at Scheveningen 1913 (Alekhine won). He tied for 7-8th at Hastings 1919 (Victory Congress, José Raúl Capablanca won); tied for 14-15th at Göteborg (B tournament, Paul Johner won); took 3rd at Utrecht 1920 (Quadrangular, Géza Maróczy won); tied for 3rd-4th at Nijmegen 1921 (5th NED-ch, Max Euwe won); took 18th at Scheveningen 1923 (Paul Johner and Rudolf Spielmann won); took 3rd at Utrecht 1927 (Quadrangular, Euwe won); took 7th at Amsterdam 1929 (8th NED-ch, Euwe won); took 8th at The Hague–Leiden 1933 (9th NED-ch, Euwe won). Olland was very active in match play, competing in 29 matches, all except one in his home town Utrecht. He defeated most Dutch players except Euwe who beat him twice, but lost to foreign masters such as Géza Maróczy, Richard Réti, and Edgar Colle. Olland died of a heart attack playing in the 1933 Dutch Championship at The Hague. en.wikipedia.org Gaetano Del Pezzo (7 june 1892 - 22 July 1970 ) The title of Master reaching quarter behind Rosselli, Seitz and Marotti in the tourney in Naples of 1927. In the national tourney Roselli in 1930 in Florence he reached 4°-5° with Hellmann. He reached eleventh in the Italian championship (Rome 1939) and 6-9 in the C.I. (Florence, 1948). President of Italian Chess Federation in 1949-50. SOURCE OF QUOTES: www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History Jul 23, 1913: Alexander Kuznetsov, Russian composer, was born in Moskva, USSR. Jul 23, 1942: Arthur Klinge,German composer, died in Eppendorf, Germany. Jul 23, 1972: George Alan Thomas died in London, England. Jul 23, 1976: Judit Polgar was born in Budapest, Hungary. Jul 23, 1987: Alexander Krapivin was born, Russia. Jul 23, 2006: Rudolf Teschner died in Berlin, Germany. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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TOday In Chess History Jul 24, 1843: Andreas Asharin was born in Parnu, Estonia. Jul 24, 1843: Thomas Wilson was born in Manchester, England. Jul 24, 1878: Lord Dunsany was born in London, England. Jul 24, 1935: Viacheslav Osnos was born, USSR. Jul 24, 1939: Abdul Abdurahmanovic was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Jul 24, 1958: Anthony Costen was born, England. Jul 24, 1965: Ludger Keitlinghaus was born, Germany. Jul 24, 1967: Charles Lamoureux was born, France. Jul 24, 1975: Nicolas Rossolimo died in New York, USA. Jul 24, 1986: Vugar Gashimov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today in Chess History Jul 25, 1838 Per Gustaf Boren, Swedish analyst, was born in Linkoping,Sweden. Jul 25, 1894: Hans Kmoch was born in Vienna, Austria. Jul 25, 1897: Andre Muffang was born in Saint Brieuc, France. Jul 25, 1910: Giovanni Martinolich died in Trieste, Italy. Jul 25, 1929: Arthur Roycrowth, English composer, was born in Richmond, England. Jul 25, 1945: Slobodan Martinovic was born in Beograd, Yugoslavia. Jul 25, 1950: Julio Kaplan was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Jul 25, 1955: Bernard Kernan was born in Dublin, Ireland. Jul 25, 1963: Julian Hodgson was born St.Asaph, Wales, England. Jul 25, 1963: Gosta Stoltz died in Stockholm, Sweden. Jul 25, 1969: Oleg Korneev was born, Russia. Jul 25, 1974: Reefat Bin – Sattar was born, Bangladesh SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today in Chess History Jul 26, 1885: Giuseppe Gasbarri died in Florence, Italy. Jul 26, 1916: Henry Charlick died in Adelaide, Australia. Jul 26, 1928: Stanley Kubrick was born in New York, USA. Jul 26, 1955: Stefan Djuric was born in Beograd, Yugoslavia. Jul 26, 1957: Nicholas De Firmian was born in Fresno, California, USA. Jul 26, 1971: Ugo Pasquinelli died in Treviso, Italy. Jul 26, 1971: Vladimir Petkov was born, Bulgaria. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History Jul 27, 1795: Ludwig Bledow was born in Berlin, Germany. Jul 27, 1846: Charles Forth died in Waterford, Ireland. Jul 27, 1863: Ignacy Popiel was born in Lvov, Poland. Jul 27, 1899: Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa died in Storchnest, Poland. July 27, 1904: Lyudmila Rudenko was born in Lubni, Poltava, USSR. Jul 27, 1939: Tudev Uitumen was born in Altaj, Mongolia. Jul 27, 1958: Anthony Kosten was born, France. Jul 27, 1971: Davor Rogic was born, Croatia. Jul 27, 1980: Guglielmo Mai, Italian composer, died in Turin. Italy. www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History Jul 28, 1712: Jean Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva, Switzerland. Jul 28, 1872: Gustavus Pfeiffer was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA. Jul 28, 1878: Rudolf swiderski was born in Leipzig, Germany. Jul 28, 1883: Raffaello Foraboschi was born in Livorno, Italy. Jul 28, 1887: Marcel Duchamp was born in Blainville, France. Jul 28, 1902: Pieter Ten Cate, Dutch composer, was born in Leewarden, Nederlands. Jul 28, 1912: Gavril Veresov was born in Minsk, Byelorussia. Jul 28, 1917; Romolo Ravarini, Italian composer, was born in Navaro, Italy. Jul 28, 1959: Marcel Sisniega Campbell was born, Mexico. Jul 28, 1965: Sergio Slipak was born, Argentina Jul 28, 1966: Ilia Balinov was born in Bataku, Bulgaria. Jul 28, 1971: Tomas Likavsky was born in Zwolen, Slovakia. Jul 28, 1975: Georges Renaud died in Peile, France. Jul 28, 1982: Ibragim Khamrakulov was born, Usbekistan Jul 28, 1987: Arman Pashikian was born in Yerevan, Armenia. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History Jul 29, 1889: Lajos Asztalos was born in Pecs, Hungary. Jul 29, 1892: Peter Romanovsky was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. Jul 29, 1908: Grigory Goldberg was born in Pushkin, Russia. Jul 29, 1917: Armando Silly was born in Livorno, Italy. Jul 29, 1957: Victor Gavrikov was born, Lithuania. Jul 29, 1963: Yge Visser was born, Netherlands. Jul 29, 1965: Ivan Zaja was born, Croatia. Jul 29, 1980: Alexei Iljushin was born, Russia. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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The History of the Players Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky (29 July 1892, St Petersburg – 1 March 1964, Moscow) was a Russian chess International Master, International Arbiter, and author. At the beginning of his career in Sankt Petersburg, he shared 4th in 1908 (Sergey von Freymann and Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz won), tied for 10-11th in 1909 (Alexander Alekhine won), took 2nd behind Smorodsky in 1913, and shared 1st with von Freymann in 1914 (Hexagonal). Romanovsky participated in the Mannheim 1914 chess tournament (the 19th DSB Congress), began on 20 July and stopped on 1 August 1914 when World War I broke out. He tied for 2nd-4th in Hauptturnier B. After the declaration of war by German Empire on Russian Empire, eleven "Russian" players (A.A. Alekhine, E.D. Bogoljubov, F.P. Bogatyrchuk, A.D. Flamberg, N. Koppelman, B.E. Maljutin, I.L. Rabinovich, P.A. Romanovsky, P.P. Saburov, A.S. Selezniev, S.O. Weinstein) were interned in Rastatt, Germany. On September 14, 17, and 29, 1914, four of them (Alekhine, Bogatyrchuk, Saburov, and Koppelman) were freed and allowed to return home via Switzerland. As an internee, he played in three tournaments. In 1914, he tied for 4-5th in Baden Baden (Alexander Flamberg won). He took 3rd in the Triberg chess tournament 1914/15, and tied for 5-6th at Triberg 1915 (both won by Efim Bogoljubow). After being released from internment by the Red Cross in Spring 1915, due to his poor health (heart illness), he returned to Petrograd. When Romanovsky arrived back in Russia, he immediately helped raise money to aid the Russian chess players who were still interned in Germany by giving a simultaneous exhibition at the St. Petersburg Politechnical Institute. After the war, he took 2nd, behind Alekhine, at Moscow 1920 (the 1st USSR Chess Championship). He was the Soviet Champion in 1923 (2nd USSR-ch in Petrograd) and 1927 (with Fedor Bogatyrchuk, 5th USSR-ch in Moscow). He tied for first with Grigory Levenfish, Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky and Ilya Rabinovich in the 1925 Leningrad City Chess Championship. In December 1925, he tied for 7-8th in the Moscow 1925 chess tournament. In 1927, he won in Leningrad. His best international result was in Leningrad 1934, finishing 2nd= with Nikolai Riumin, behind Mikhail Botvinnik. These results clearly indicate a player of Grandmaster strength. In 1935, he was the first Soviet chess player to be awarded Honored Master of Sport. During the worst period of the Siege of Leningrad in winter of 1941-42, a rescue party reached his home. They found Romanovsky half-conscious from starvation and cold. The rest of his family had frozen to death. All the furniture in the house had been used for firewood. A chess manuscript which had been in preparation by Romanovsky was also lost at this time. He was awarded the International Master title in 1950 and an International Arbiter title in 1951. In 1954, the Soviets withdrew their application for Romanovsky to receive the Grandmaster title. They based his GM title on his 1st place in the 1927 USSR championship. But because anti-stalinist Fedor Bogatyrchuk (Bohatirchuk) also took 1st place in 1927, and he was no longer recognized in the USSR (having defected), the USSR Chess Federation did not want to give the GM title to Bohatirchuk and so so they withdrew the application for Romanovsky as well. Before his death, Romanovsky did eventually publish two very important books on chess middlegames, which were translated into English in 1990. These are Chess Middlegames: Combinations, and Chess Middlegames: Strategy, both published by American Chess Promotions. LINK: en.wikipedia.org SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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The History of the Players (Continued) At the beginning of his career, he tied for 6-8th at Budapest 1911 (3rd HUN-ch, Zoltán von Balla and Zsigmond Barász won); tied for 7-8th at Breslau 1912 (18th DSB–Congress, B tourn, Gregory won); took 2nd, behind Gyula Breyer, at Temesvár 1912 (4th HUN-ch); won at Debrecen 1913 (5th HUN-ch); tied for 8-9th at Budapest 1913 (Rudolf Spielmann won), took 5th at Mannheim 1914 (Hauptturnier A); took 4th at Vienna 1917 (Quadrangular, Milan Vidmar won), and took 5th atKaschau 1918 (Richard Réti won). After World War I, he moved to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known asYugoslavia). In 1923 he tied for 6-7th in Trieste (Paul Johner won). In 1924 he took 3rd in Györ (7th HUN-ch, Géza Nagy won). In 1925 he took 5th in Budapest (Lovas and Sterk won), and tied for 13-14th in Debrecen (Hans Kmoch won). In 1926 he took 3rd, behind Hermanis Matisons and Savielly Tartakower, in Bardejov (Bártfa, Bartfeld, Bardiów). In 1927 he took 4th in Kecskemét (Alexander Alekhine won). He represented Yugoslavia in Chess Olympiads: * In 1926, in 2nd unofficial Olympiad in Budapest – team silver medal; * In 1927, at third board in 1st Chess Olympiad in London (+4 –3 =8); * In 1931, at second board in 4th Chess Olympiad in Prague (+7 –3 =6); * In 1936, at fourth board in 3rd unofficial Olympiad in Munich (+5 –3 =8). In 1931, he took 13th in Bled (Alekhine won). In 1934, he took 6th in Maribor (Vasja Pirc and Lajos Steiner won). In 1935, he tied for 8-9th inBelgrade (Vasja Pirc and Borislav Kostić won). In 1938, he tied for 5-7th in Ljubljana (Kostić won). During World War II, Astaloš played for Croatia in a match against Slovakia on first board with Ivan Vladimir Rohaček (1 : 1) in Zagreb in December 1941. He returned to Hungary in 1942. Asztalos became Vice President of the Hungarian Chess Union and Secretary of the FIDEQualification Committee. He was a professor of philosophy and a languages teacher. He died in Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against the Soviet Union. He was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1950 and the International Arbiter (IA) title in 1951. He is an author of A sakkjáték elemei (Budapest 1951) ). Asztalos Memorial is held regularly in Hungary since 1958. LINKS: en.wikipedia.org AND: www.chessbase.de SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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The History of the Players (Continued) Gavrikov shared 1st with Gintautas Piešina in the 1978 Lithuanian Chess Championship at Vilnius. He won the 52nd Soviet Chess Championship(with Mikhail Gurevich and Alexander Chernin) at Riga 1985, and finished 2nd (joint) in the 1986 event (Vitaly Tseshkovsky won). After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he emigrated to Switzerland. He won at Biel 1994, and won the Swiss Chess Championship at Arosa 1996. He shared 1st with Viktorija Cmilyte in the Lithuanian Championship in 2000. Gavrikov was awarded the GM title in 1984. LINK: en.wikipedia.org SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today in Chess History Jul 30, 1933: Odette Vollenveider , Swiss composer, was born in Zurich, Switzerland. Jul 30, 1935: Gyozo Forintos was born in Budapest, Hungary. Jul 30, 1946: Roberto Cosulich was born in Venezia, Italy. Jul 30, 1969: Pierre Biscay died in Montmorency, France. Jul 30, 1974: Ilio Giubbolini died in Imperia, Italy. Jul 30, 1975: Tomasz Markowski was born in Glogow, Poland. Jul 30, 1992: Fabiano Caruana was born in Miami, Florida, USA. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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The History of the Players He first participated in the Hungarian Championship as early as 1954 and became the national champion in 1968/9. In tournaments he was 1st at Reggio Emilia 1962/3, 2nd at Wijk aan Zee 1970 (after Andersson), 1st at Baja 1971, 3rd at Caorle 1972, 2nd atVrnjačka Banja 1973, 2nd at Reykjavík 1974 (after Smyslov, but ahead of Bronstein), 2nd at Novi Sad 1974, 2nd= at Lone Pine 1976 (afterPetrosian), 2nd at Sarajevo 1978, and 1st= at the Perpignan Open 1987. He played for Hungary in six Chess Olympiads (1958, 1964, 1966, 1970, 1972, and 1974). In 1958, he took an individual gold medal for his impressive 80% score and has also won silver and bronze team medals. As a writer on chess, he has produced two notable books on the opening in the English language, both co-authored by Ervin Haag: Petroff Defence, MacMillan Chess Library, 1992 and Easy Guide to the 5.Nge2 King's Indian, Everyman, 2000. The latter describes a fairly offbeat method of playing white against the King's Indian. Sometimes referred to as the 'Hungarian Attack', it is a system that Forintos has himself developed and become a leading expert on. Forintos was awarded the International Master title in 1963 and the Grandmaster title in 1974. His daughter Gyöngyvér, also a chess player, is married to the Anglo-French grandmaster, Tony Kosten. LINK: en.wikipedia.org Tomasz Markowski (born 30 July 1975 in Głogów) is a Polish chess Grandmaster. He won the Polish Chess Championship in 1993, 1998, 1999, 2003, and 2007. He also represented Poland five-times in Chess Olympiads. In 2000 he won a bronze medal at the European Individual Chess Championship in Saint-Vincent, Italy. Markowski won at Geneva (1995, 2000) and shared for first at the 2004 Aeroflot Open in Moscow. Markowski was awarded the GM title in 1998. According to Chessmetrics his best single performance was at POL-ch 60th Warsaw, 2003, where he scored 10,5 of 13 possible points (81%) against 2520-rated opposition, for a performance rating of 2700. On the January 2009 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2605. His peak rating was 2610 on the July and October 2003 rating lists. He has been in the top 100 players in the world twice. In July 2003 he was ranked 87th in the world, and on the October 2003 list he was 88th. LINK: en.wikipedia.org) SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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The History of the Players (Continued) Fabiano Caruana was born on July 30th, 1992 in Miami, Florida of an Italian-American father and an Italian mother. At age 4 his family relocated from Miami, Florida to Park Slope, Brooklyn. Coincidentally, this was the same neighborhood where Bobby Fischer lived during his youth. At age 5, his chess talent was discovered in an after school chess program at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and he played his first tournament at the Polgar Chess Center in Queens, New York. Up to the age of twelve, he lived and played in the United States, with occasional travel to European and South American tournaments. His first chess coach, at age 6, was National Master Bruce Pandolfini, who was famously portrayed by Ben Kingsley in the 1993 film Searching For Bobby Fischer. And from ages eight to twelve he studied with Grandmaster Miron Sher. In 2004 at age twelve, he relocated with his family from Park Slope, Brooklyn to Madrid, Spain to pursue chess in a more serious manner. He trained first with International Master Boris Zlotnik in Madrid, and later with Grandmaster Alexander Chernin (his current trainer) in Budapest. At age fourteen Caruana became the youngest ever Grandmaster of both the United States and Italy (surpassing the record in the United States set by Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura). He currently lives in Budapest, Hungary, and plays for Italy. 2007: * Grandmaster Title - Caruana obtained his final GM norm earning the Grandmaster title in July. Due to his young age and having broken the prior "contemporary" record of Hikaru Nakamura as youngest ever American to become a Grandmaster, he received much attention from the international chess world. * Vlissingen chess tournament - In August he played the strong Vlissingen chess tournament in the Netherlands. His last round opponent was former FIDE world champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov. Caruana playing black, drew the game in 82 moves, and won the tournament with performance of 2715. * Italian Championship - At the end of the year he participated in the Italian Championship. The prior year he became sub-championship of Italy by tieing with Michele Godena but losing the 5th rapid play-off game. This year he won with a score of +8 (9.5/11) to become the youngest ever Italian champion. 2008: * Corus C - This was his first experience at Corus and throughout much of the tournament he was the clear leader. His last round opponent wasParimarjan Negi, and Caruana needed 1/2 point to win the tournament. Caruana won the game in 61 moves and the tournament with a final score of +7 (10/13) and performance of 2696. * Ruy Lopez Festival - Taking place in early April, the Ruy Lopez Festival included a seven round closed tournament, and a 2 day rapid open tournament. In the seven round closed tournament, Caruana had a disappointing result of -2 (2.5/7) with performance of 2513. The 2 day rapid open tournament that followed was won by Caruana with a score of +6 (7.5/9) followed by Michael Adams, Julio Granda Zuniga, and Dzhurabek Khamrakulov all with a score of +5 (7/9). * Mitropa Cup - In June he played first board for Italy at the Mitropa Cup, which is a 4 board team competition amongst 10 "middle" European nations. He scored +6 (7.5/9) winning the first board prize with performance of 2810. * NH "Rising Stars vs. Experienced" - This tournament is of a Scheveningen format which is a double round team match of five "Rising Stars" against five "Experienced" players. Caruana played against Evgeny Bareev, Viktor Kortchnoi, Artur Jussupow, Simen Agdestein, and Ljubomir Ljubojevic. He scored +3 (6.5/10) with performance of 2706. * Cap d'agde - The event was a knock-out closed rapid tournament organized into two round robin groups of 8 players each, with the top four scorers of each group proceeding to the quarter-finals, the semi-finals, and then the finals. The time control was 25 minutes with a 10 second increment. In his group, Caruana placed first with a score of +4 (5.5/7) winning against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Xiangzhi Bu, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Marie Sebag, and drawing against Vassily Ivanchuk, Ivan Cheparinov, and Kateryna Lahno. Caruana's performance was 2866 and he had qualified to enter the quarter-finals. His quarter-final match, which was against Anatoly Karpov, was closely fought. Karpov won the first game, and Caruana won the second. Then tie-break games with time control of 15 minutes were played. The first four games were all drawn. The fifth game Karpov won, and Caruana was knocked-out. * 38th Olympiad - This was Caruana's first Olympiad. On the first board he played against Levon Aronian in the first round, Viktor Korchnoi in the fourth round, Michael Adams in the fifth round, Emanuel Berg in the seventh round, and Peter Leko in the 8th round. He lost to Aronian and Leko, and won against Adams, Korchnoi, and Berg. His final score was 7.5/11 with performance of 2696. * Italian Championship - Caruana successfully defended his title winning the title for the second consecutive year with a score of +5 (8/11). 2009: Corus B - Having won Corus C 2008, Caruana received and accepted invitation to Corus B 2009 which was of category 16 with average Elo of 2641. Throughout the tournament his standings ranged from first to third place. Going into the last round he was tied for second and his opponent was Nigel Short who was in clear first. The game lasted 67 moves. Caruana won the game and the tournament with a score of +4 (8.5/13) and performance of 2751. Caruana is the first player ever to win both Corus C and Corus B in consecutive years placing clear first in both. LINK: en.wikipedia.org SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History Jul 31, 1828: Wilfred Paulsen was born in Nassengrund, Germany. Jul 31, 1941: Mario Gaspero was born in Teramo, Italy. Jul 31, 1960: Nigel Davies was born in Southport, England. Jul 31, 1962: Agnieszka Brustman was born in Warszawa, Poland. Jul 31, 1962: Alexandru Crisan was born, Romania. Jul 31, 1965: Elliot Laucks died in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Jul 31, 1966: Evgeniy Solozhenkin was born, Russia. Jul 31, 1969: Dejan Pikula was born, Serbia. Jul 31, 1984: Yuniesky Quezada Perez was born, Cuba. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History Aug 1, 1843: Emil Schallopp was born in Friesack in der Mark, Germany. Aug 1, 1848: Karl Jesperson, Danish composer, was born in Copenhagen, Danmark. Aug 1, 1936: Spencer Crakanthorp died in Sydney, Australia. Aug 1, 1937: Barry Barnes, British composer, was born in Brighton, England. Aug 1, 1947: Ehrhardt Post died in Berlin, Germany. Aug 1, 1953: Vincenzo Tinebra, Italian composer, was born in Della, Italy. Aug 1, 1972: Ugo Mantelli died in Genoa, Italy. Aug 1, 1972: Vadim Milov was born, Russia. Aug 1, 1973: Jacob Aagaard was born, Danmark. Aug 1, 1976: Liviu- Dieter Nisipeanu was born, Romania. Aug 1, 1995: Patrick Bourker died, Ireland. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History Aug 2, 1853: John Hall was born in Brighton, England. Aug 2, 1879: Carlo Borgatti, Italian composer, was born in Ferrara, Italy. Aug 2, 1904: Armando Siveri was born in Zanetta di Sailetto, Italy. Aug 2, 1923: Alfred Emil Wolf died, Austria. Aug 2, 1927: Andreas Duckstein was born in Budapest, Hungary. Aug 2, 1941: Yakov Murey was born in Moskva, Russia. Aug 2, 1962: Georg Siegel was born, Germany. Aug 2, 1971: Vladimir Belikov was born, Russia. Aug 2, 1981: Johann Breuer, German composer, died in Reichshof, Germany Aug 2, 1981: Maral Ovezova was born, Turkmenistan. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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History of the Players Born in Hungary, he left for Austria at the age of 22. Dückstein was thrice Austrian Champion (1954, 1956, 1977). He tied for 11-13th at Zagreb 1955 (Vassily Smyslov won), took 14th at Wageningen 1957 (zonal, László Szabó won), took 5th at Hastings 1958/59 (Wolfgang Uhlmann won), shared 2nd at Berg en Dal (zonal, Friðrik Ólafsson won), tied for 4-6th at Vienna 1961 (Yuri Averbakhwon), took 3rd at Amsterdam 1964 (IBM, Bent Larsen won), took 4th at Palma de Mallorca 1965. He played for Austria in several Chess Olympiads: * In 1956, at second board in 12th Chess Olympiad in Moscow (+11 –2 =4); * In 1958, at first board in 13th Chess Olympiad in Munich (+6 –5 =8); * In 1962, at second board in 15th Chess Olympiad in Varna (+2 –6 =2); * In 1964, at first board in 16th Chess Olympiad in Tel Aviv (+8 –5 =3); * In 1968, at first board in 18th Chess Olympiad in Lugano (+5 –2 =5); * In 1970, at first board in 19th Chess Olympiad in Siegen (+4 –2 =6); * In 1974, at second board in 21st Chess Olympiad in Nice (+8 –0 =4); * In 1976, at second board in 22nd Chess Olympiad in Haifa (+5 –4 =1); * In 1988, at second reserve board in 28th Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki (+2 –2 =3). He won two individual gold medals, at Moscow 1956 and at Nice 1974. Awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1956. LINK: en.wikipedia.org SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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History of the Players (Continued) As of April 2007, his Elo rating was 2433, making him the # 39 player in Israel and the 1449th-highest rated player in the world. His peak rating was 2560 in 1989. In 1961, Murey tied for 6-7th in Moscow (USSR-ch students). In 1963, he took 12th in Moscow-ch. In 1965, he tied for 7-8th in Moscow (Central Chess Club-ch; Vladimir Liberzon won). In 1966, he tied for 1st with Nikitin in Moscow. In 1967, he tied for 4-7th in Moscow-ch. In 1967, he tied for 41-57th in Kharkov (35th USSR Championship; Lev Polugaevsky and Mikhail Tal won). In 1969, he took 10th in Moscow-ch (Igor Zaitsev won). In 1969, he took 15th in Voronezh (URS-ch sf). In 1970, he tied for 15-16th in Moscow-ch. In 1972, he tied for 6-8th in Sukhumi. In 1974, he tied for 5-7th in Tula. In 1975, he tied for 4-7th in Yalta. Murey emigrated to Israel in 1977. He later settled in France. In 1978, he was one of Viktor Korchnoi’s seconds in Baguio during a match for the World Chess Championship against Anatoly Karpov. In 1979, he tied for 1st-2nd with Balshan in Ramat Hasharon. In 1980, he took 2nd in Beer Sheva. In 1980, he took 2nd in Ramat Hasharon. In 1982, he won in Randers (zonal, group . In 1982, he took 7th in Moscow (interzonal; Garry Kasparov won). Murey played for Israel in three Chess Olympiads. * In 1980, at fourth board in 24th Chess Olympiad in La Valletta (+6 –4 =1); * In 1982, at second board in 25th Chess Olympiad in Lucerne (+6 –4 =3); * In 1984, at first reserve board in 26th Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki (+2 –2 =3). In 1982/83, he tied for 3rd-4th in Hastings (Rafael Vaganian won). In 1983, he tied for 3rd-4th in Netanya (Miguel Quinteros won). In 1987, he tied for 2nd in Marseille. In 1987, he won in Seville. In 1988, he tied for 2nd-3rd with Zsuzsa Polgar, behind Korchnoi, in Royan. In 1997, he tied for 3-8th in Winnipeg (Julian Hodgson won). Murey won 1st European Senior Championship at Saint Vicent 2001. He tied for 2nd-4th in 3rd Senior EU-ch 2003 (Sinisa Joksic won), and for 2nd-6th in 5th Senior EU-ch 2005 (Mark Tseitlin won). He also played for Israel in 1st World Senior Team Championship at Isle of Man 2004. He won gold team medal and was equal 1st with Wolfgang Uhlmann on first board there. Murey was awarded the International Master of Correspondence Chess title in 1970, the International Master (IM) title in 1980, and the GM title in 1987. LINK: en.wikipedia.org SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History Aug 3, 1811: Wilhelm Hanstein was born in Berlin, Germany. Aug 3, 1815: Henry Loveday, British composer, was born in Barrackpore, India. Aug 3, 1827: Sergey Urusov was born in Moskva, Russia. Aug 3, 1872: William Evans died in Ostende, Belgie. Aug 3, 1874: Hans Massmann died in Muskau, Germany. Aug 3, 1954: Valerio Agostini, Italian composer, was born in Perugia, Italy. Aug 3, 1961: Felix Izeta Txabarri was born, Spain. Aug 3, 1979: Aimen Rizouk was born, Algeria. Aug 3, 1979: Andrey Rychagov was born, Russia. Aug 3, 1981: Wolfgang Heidenfeld died in Ulm, Germany. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History Aug 4, 1918: Hilding Froberg was born in Harnosand, Sweden. He was a Swedish player and composer. Aug 4, 1959: Vladimir Gurevich was born. He was a Ukrainian GM - International Grandmaster. Aug 4, 1961: Bagyashree Sathe Thipsay was born. She was India's WIM - Woman International Master. Aug 4, 1963: Vidmantas Malisauskas was born. He was Lithuania's GM - International Grandmaster. SOURCE: www.maskeret.com |
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