Aron Grigoryevich Reshko

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Aron Grigoryevich Reschko ( Russian Арон Григорьевич Решко ; November 8, 1927 , † 1985 ) was a Soviet chess player . Since 1957 he held the title of Master of Sports of the USSR .

Life

Reshko stayed in the city during the siege of Leningrad and played in the unofficial city championship as early as 1942. In 1944 he won the Leningrad Student Championship. The next year he shared first place in the Soviet youth championship with Tigran Petrosyan and Yuri Vasilchuk. His best result at the Leningrad Championships was fourth place in 1957 behind Viktor Korchnoi , Semyon Furman and Alexander Tscherepkow. He was a mechanical engineer by profession . A 1973 report said he never took a day off to participate in local tournaments and always played after work.

In the semifinals of the USSR championship Reshko did not manage to occupy one of the top places. In 1957 he was in Kiev with 10 points from 19 shared eight, which did not allow him to move into the finals, since only the six best players were qualified. After all, he was the only one who beat the tournament winner Petrosian. In 1960 Reshko took second place behind Boris Spassky at the championship of the Trud Sports Association in Kislovodsk . With Vodnik he took part in the team cups of the sports associations of the USSR. In the 1960 friendly Leningrad against Budapest he defeated Gyula Kluger 3-1, the following year he got a 2-2 against Károly Honfi .

In correspondence chess , he achieved some success as a team player. With the Leningrad selection he was second in the III. (1970–1973), IV. (1973–1975, with the best result on the second board) and VI. (1978–1981) Soviet team championship. In the fifth championship, which was held between 1975 and 1978, his team won the title with 100 points out of 144.

His best historical rating was 2563 in June 1958.

literature

  • L. Abramow, A. Konstantinopolski et al: Schachmatnyj Slowar , Moscow 1964, p. 319. (Russian)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. 64 . No. 9, 1973, p. 10 (Russian)
  2. Chessmetrics player profile (accessed April 5, 2013)