Boris Kogan

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Boris Kogan ( Russian Борис Маркович Коган / Boris Markowitsch Kogan; born February 8, 1940 , † December 25, 1993 ) was a Soviet-American chess player and coach.

Life

Kogan learned to play chess at the age of 14 in a youth camp near Lviv . He took part with the Ukrainian selection in the Soviet youth championship in 1957 in Vladimir and showed the best result on the first board. During his military service he shared second place behind Vitaly Shilin at the championship of the Soviet armed forces in 1962 in Odessa . In the same year he shared second place in a semi-final of the XXX. Championship of the USSR in Dnepropetrovsk . The place in the final went to Wladislaw Schijanowski after a playoff. Also in 1962, Kogan received the title of Master of Sports of the USSR . He took top places in several championships of the sports associationAwangard . In 1971 he finished second at the Ukrainian championship in Donetsk with 9 points out of 13 . At the 1977 Khodschayev memorial tournament in Tashkent , he shared second place behind Igor Ivanov .

Before his emigration, Kogan rarely took part in international competitions. At a tournament between the twin cities in 1976 in Pécs, Hungary, he did not do particularly well with 4 points out of 11. After two years, he took second place in the same place. He remained undefeated with five wins and six draws and thus fulfilled a GM standard. As a correspondence chess player , he played three times in the finals of the Soviet individual championship. In the 13th championship (1977-78), which was won by Michail Umansky , he finished fourth.

In 1980, Kogan moved to the United States. He was based in Stone Mountain , a suburb of Atlanta . From 1982 he carried the title of International Master . Between 1980 and 1992 he won the Georgia State Championship nine times . His best result at the US championships was a tied fifth place in 1985 at Estes Park . At the well-endowed New York International tournament in 1984 he shared second place with Lajos Portisch , András Adorján , Gennadi Sosonko and Lubomir Kavalek and achieved another GM standard. With his best rating of 2500, Kogan was 92nd in the world rankings in January 1985.

Before emigrating, Kogan worked as an engineer at the picture tube factory in Lviv. For two years he led a chess section in the Lviv Pioneer Palace, where he trained Adrian Mihalčišin , among others . Among his students in the US, the shared winner of the 1989 US championship was IM Stuart Rachels . As of 1987, Kogan edited a chess column in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

literature

  • J. Edwin Smith: It's Your Move, Boris Kogan . In: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution . September 13, 1987.
  • Konstantin Galanter: Boris Kogan: A Recollection . In: Georgia Chess . January / February 2003, p. 13.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 95
  2. ^ Robert Byrne: New York Tourney Winner Lost Only Once in 9 Games . In: The New York Times . May 8, 1984.
personal data
SURNAME Kogan, Boris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Коган, Борис Маркович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-American chess player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1940
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1993