Alexei Kapitonowitsch Serow

Alexei Kapitonowitsch Serow ( Russian Алексей Капитонович Серов ; * 1918 , † 1993 ) was a Soviet party and chess official .

Life

Alexei Serow, born in 1918, made a career in the CPSU and initially held a leading position in the party organization of the city of Odessa . After that he worked in the secretariat of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Nikita Khrushchev and in the Committee on People's Control of the USSR. In the 1960s he was at the head of the All-Russian Chess Federation, which at that time, according to official figures, represented around two million organized players in the Russian Federation. As head of the Soviet delegation, he was present at various international competitions, such as the Chess Olympiads in Havana in 1966 and in Lugano in 1968 .

Since April 1968 Serov was chairman of the Soviet Chess Federation before he was replaced by Dmitri Postnikow the next year. Although his tenure in the association was short-lived, the results of his work are generally rated as positive. His merits include the publication (since July 1968) of the weekly 64 and the new television program Shachmatnaja Shkola . More than 50,000 teams took part in the Belaja Ladja pioneer friendship competitions, which were held for the first time . In the 1980s Serow acted as the responsible secretary in the central staff of the club of the same name. At the 1984 FIDE Congress in Thessaloniki he was awarded the title of International Arbitrator .

Serow died of cancer in 1993 at the age of 74.

Individual evidence

1. ^ A. Suetin: Serow Alexei Kapitonowitsch. (1918-1993) . In: 64 - Shakhmatnoe obozreniye . No. 7–8, 1993, p. 50 (Russian)