Alexander Girschewitsch Geller
Alexander Girschewitsch Geller ( Russian Александр Гиршевич Геллер ; born November 12, 1931 , † March 10, 2014 ) was a Russian chess player and journalist.
Life
In 1944 Geller went to the chess section in the Leningrad Pioneer Palace, which soon became the talent factory of the Soviet chess school. With the Leningrad selection ( Viktor Korchnoi , Boris Spassky , Anatoli Lutikow and other players) he won the USSR youth championship in Moscow in 1949 . In 1953 he was first with Nauka at the Soviet VCSPS championship in Minsk . In 1959 he took second place behind Spassky at the Leningrad City Championship and exceeded his master's standard by one point.
With Trud he won several Leningrad Spartakiads. Also with the team of the Trud Sports Association , which then included the chess greats such as Mikhail Botvinnik , Yuri Averbach and Korchnoi, he took second place in the team cup of the Sports Associations of the USSR in Moscow in 1966. Geller often represented Leningrad at friendly games, so he lost Vladimir Liberson with 0.5: 1.5 in 1960 and defeated Igor Saizew with 1.5: 0.5 in 1962 in his city's matches against Moscow. In 1962 he scored a 1.5: 2.5 against János Flesch in a match with Budapest .
In correspondence chess , Geller won the fifth championship of the USSR with the Leningrad team, which took place in 1975-78. He showed the best result on the sixth board with 10.5 points from 12 games. At the III. Baltic Sea tournament (1974-78), which Leningrad won, he scored 9.5 points from 11 games on the second board. Due to his good performance in the IV Baltic Sea tournament, he was awarded the title of International Master at the ICCF Congress in Poznan in 1983 .
Geller worked as a patent expert in the Lomo factories and chess journalist. For decades he reported on current chess events in the Soviet Union for magazines such as 64 , Schachmaty v SSSR or Šahs . He was also used as a referee and was awarded the title of International Referee in 1988.
He achieved his best historical rating of 2506 in 1956.
literature
- L. Abramow, A. Konstantinopolski et al: Schachmatnyj Slowar , Moscow 1964, p. 222. (Russian)
Web links
- Alexander Girschewitsch Geller at the International Correspondence Chess Federation ICCF (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Report on totalchess.spb.ru (Russian)
- ↑ Chessmetrics player profile (accessed December 3, 2012)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geller, Alexander Girschewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Геллер, Александр Гиршевич (Russian); Геллер, Александр Григорьевич; Geller, Alexander Grigoryevich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian chess player and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1931 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 2014 |