Andrei Nikolayevich Chardin

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Andrei Chardin, 1890

Andrei Nikolajewitsch Chardin ( Russian Андрей Николаевич Хардин , scientific transliteration Andrej Nikolaevič Chardin ; * September 2 jul. / September 14,  1842 greg. In Sokolowo near Samara; † January 24 jul. / February 6,  1910 greg. In Samara ) was a Russian chess player and lawyer.

Life

Chardin was born on his father's estate. He studied law in Kazan . In the 1870s he first appeared as a chess player in Saint Petersburg : in individual games he won against leading Russian players, including Simon Alapin , Mikhail Chigorin and others. In 1878 he moved to Samara , where he quickly made a name for himself as a lawyer and representative of public life. At the age of 28 he was elected chairman of the Samara Governorate Council, but lost this office shortly afterwards.

In 1891 he won a match against Rafail Falk in Samara 5-2. Chardin defeated Emanuel Schiffers in two correspondence games , but he was defeated by the master in a competition on the board (in Samara 1895) with 2: 7 (+1 = 2 −6). In the following Chardin largely withdrew from chess and only occasionally played easy games. Although Chardin played mostly long-distance games in his chess career, Chigorin considered him one of the best players in Russia.

Chardin's opponents in long-distance games included Russian personalities such as the mathematician Andrei Markow or the later founder of the Soviet Union , the young Vladimir Ilyich Lenin , who was a frequent guest at Chardin's house as a chess opponent and law student from 1889 to 1890; from February to August 1893 Lenin worked as an assistant to Chardin. Lenin's brother Dmitri Ulyanov mentions a tournament of about ten players in Samara for 1889/90, which Lenin won before Chardin, with Chardin being the only player to have the first category and having to give everyone else a handicap . Lenin had the second category, Chardin came second.

literature

  • Shachmatnyj Slovar. Moscow 1964, p. 372.
  • Anatoly E. Karpov: Shachmaty. Encyclopedichesky Slowar. Moscow 1990, ISBN 5-85270-005-3 , p. 439.
  • IM Linder: Chardin. in: Pervyje russkije mastera. [The first Russian champions], Moscow 1979.
  • NA Grekow: AN Chardin (1842-1910). in: Schachmaty w SSSR. 1938, no.11.
  • A. Grischanin: AN Chardin. in: Schachmaty w SSSR. 1960, No. 3.

References and comments

  1. ↑ Dmitri Ulyanov: Tournament winner: Lenin. in: black and white. Sportverlag Berlin 1960, OCLC 251630629 , p. 135.
  2. ^ Gerda and Hermann Weber: Lenin Chronicle. dtv, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-423-03254-5 , p. 12.
  3. ↑ Dmitri Ulyanov: Tournament winner: Lenin. in: black and white. Sportverlag Berlin 1960, OCLC 251630629 , pp. 131-138.

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personal data
SURNAME Chardin, Andrei Nikolajewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Хардин, Андрей Николаевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Sokolowo near Samara
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1910
Place of death Samara