Boris Timofejewitsch Vladimirov

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Boris Timofejewitsch Wladimirow ( Russian Борис Тимофеевич Владимиров ; English transcription: Boris Timofeyevich Vladimirov ; born May 17, 1929 in Brodki, Smolensk Oblast ; † 1999 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Soviet chess player .

Life

His trainer in the Leningrad Pioneer Palace was Vladimir Sak . In 1951 Vladimirov shared second place with Anatoly Lutikov in a tournament of the Leningrad youth. He took part in Russian individual championships as a representative of Leningrad Oblast . In 1955 he finished fifth in Leningrad, after two years he was shared second behind Raschid Neschmetdinov in Krasnodar . Since 1957 he held the title of Master of Sports of the USSR . In 1961 he won the Wetscherni Leningrad - blitz .

In the Leningrad Championship in 1961, which was held as the semi-finals of the Soviet championship , he shared third place behind Boris Spassky and Mark Taimanov and was then successful in the playoff with 3 points out of 4. In the final of the XXIX. Championship of the USSR in Baku in 1961 he tied the 14th place. In 1963 he won the championship of Leningrad. In the same year he was tied for fourth in the semi-finals of the Soviet championship in Moscow . This time he could not prevail in the playoff against Alexander Sakharov and Anatoly Bannik . With Trud Vladimirov took part in the 1961 team cup of the sports associations in Moscow. He played three times with the Leningrad selection in the Soviet team championship and won gold in Leningrad in 1962.

In 1964, FIDE awarded him the title of International Master , the norm for which he achieved with overachievement at the tournament of the Central Chess Club of the USSR in 1963 in Moscow. Other international competitions he participated in were the Chigorin Memorial in Sochi in 1966 , the tournament on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1967 October Revolution in Leningrad, the 1st international tournament in Dubna in 1971 and the 2nd Moscow Chess Festival in 1983 in Moscow / Leningrad. In these tournaments he always ended up in midfield and could not meet a GM norm. His games against Zbigniew Doda (1967) and N. Gawrilow (1971) were awarded the beauty prize.

Vladimirov, a trained lawyer, was the trainer of the chess section at the Leningrad Zhdanov State University and one of the presenters of the Shachmaty television program . He remained active in chess until the 1990s. In the Russian senior championship in 1995 in Opalicha he scored 5.5 points out of 9. One of his last tournaments was the city championship of Saint Petersburg in 1997.

Vladimirov achieved his highest rating of 2465 in January 1979 , before the introduction of the Elo numbers, he reached his best historical rating of 2632 in January 1965, placing him in 34th place in the world rankings.

literature

  • Anatoli Karpow et al .: Chess - encyclopedic dictionary, Sowjetskaja enzyklopedija, Moscow 1990, ISBN 5-85270-005-3 , p. 62. (Russian)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Boris Wladimirow's results at Soviet club championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Boris Vladimirov's results at Soviet team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Elo history at olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Boris Wladimirow on chessmetrics.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Vladimirov, Boris Timofejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Владимиров, Борис Тимофеевич (Russian); Vladimirov, Boris Timofeyevich (English transcription)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet chess player
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Brodki, Smolensk Oblast
DATE OF DEATH 1999
Place of death St. Petersburg