Alexander Borissowitsch Roshal

Alexander Borissowitsch Roschal ( Russian Александр Борисович Рошаль , born August 26, 1936 in Moscow ; † May 21, 2007 ibid) was a Russian journalist, chess player and trainer.

Together with the then world chess champion Tigran Petrosyan , Alexander Roschal founded the weekly Russian chess newspaper 64 in 1968 , which for decades was one of the chess periodicals with the highest circulation.

Roshal was of Jewish origin. His father was executed by the Stalin regime, among other things, for so-called “ Zionist activities”. His mother suffered the fate of exile . As the son of an " enemy of the people ", Roshal only managed to get a higher education and a degree in journalism with difficulty.

For years he was considered the leading chess journalist in the Soviet Union . Since 1978 Roshal has also appeared as a special correspondent for the TASS news agency and other Soviet state media at many international chess events. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union , Roshal took over the chess magazine and published it himself. In 1995, as a result of his initiative, the chess Oscar was reintroduced by this magazine .

Alexander Roschal (2002 in Dortmund) and Anna Dergatschova-Daus

For his achievements as a coach, he was awarded the title of "Honored Coach of the Russian Soviet Socialist Federative Republic" in 1967.

Publications

• With Anatoli Karpov : Chess with Karpov - the life and games of the world champion . Mosaik-Verlag, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-570-05568-X
• With Michail Tal and Viktor I. Schepisni: Montreal 1979 . Pergamon Press, Oxford 1980, ISBN 0-08-024131-X

credentials

• Literature by and about Alexander Borissowitsch Roschal in the catalog of the German National Library
• ChessBase News: Alexander Roschal has died