Eugène Znosko-Borovsky

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Eugène Znosko-Borovsky
Association Russian Empire 1858Russian Empire Russia France
FranceFrance 
Born Pavlovsk August 28, 1884
Died December 31, 1954
Paris
Best Elo rating 2613 (December 1914) ( Historic Elo rating )

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (originally Russian Евгений Александрович Зноско-Боровский / Yevgeny Alexandrovich Snosko-Borowski , scientific. Transliteration Evgenij Aleksandrovich Znosko-Borovskij ; born August 16 . Jul / 28. August  1884 greg. In Pavlovsk , † 31 December 1954 in Paris ) was a French chess player and writer of Russian descent.

The German-language editions of his books have appeared under the name Eugène Snosko-Borowsky (or more rarely Borowski ).

Life

After finishing school he was a soldier in the Russo-Japanese War . He was wounded in the right hand and was awarded the George Cross. He was also a soldier in World War I and was wounded again, this time in the legs. After the war he lived in the Caucasus for a few months and ran a theater there. In 1920 he came to Paris and worked there for Russian magazines. He was also active as a writer and theater critic.

Chess career

Znosko-Borovsky was a leading master player in the St. Petersburg Chess Society before the October Revolution . After participating in the international tournament in Nuremberg in 1906, he was awarded the championship title, having made his first international appearance in 1906 in Ostend . Znosko-Borovsky took part in various All-Russian championships , where he shared third place (with Henryk Salwe ) in Łódź in 1907/08 . During the Russian Civil War in 1920 he emigrated to France and settled in Paris . He took French citizenship here . In the course of his chess career, Znosko-Borovsky won individual games over outstanding players of his time, such as José Raúl Capablanca , Akiba Rubinstein , David Janowski and Siegbert Tarrasch , but he had a third place in Nice in 1930 and the win of the Paris Championship in 1931 predominantly occupied middle places in international tournaments. In 1941 he defeated the French champion Amédée Gibaud in Paris in a competition with 7.5: 2.5 (+7 = 1 −2).

His best historical rating was 2613 in December 1914.

Chess author

Already in his Russian phase Znosko-Borovsky was active as a chess author . Among other things, he headed the chess column of the St. Petersburg Newa newspaper and published his first book. His works, which were later translated into different languages, became extremely popular and established his fame as an excellent author.

Works (selection)

  • Puti razwitia schachmatnoj igry [Chess Development Paths], St. Petersburg 1910. (Russian)
  • Teorija serediny igry w schachmatach, Leningrad 1925 (Russian) German edition: Das Mittelspiel im Schach, Joachim Beyer Verlag, Eltmann 2016, ISBN 978-3-95920-010-3 .
  • Kapablanka i Alechin, Paris 1927.
  • Comment il ne faut pas jouer aux échecs, Paris 1930 (French) German edition: You mustn't play chess like this, Joachim Beyer Verlag, Eltmann 2013, ISBN 978-3-940417-40-4 .
  • Comment on devient brillant joueur d'échecs [How to become a brilliant chess player], Paris 1935. (French)
  • Traps on the chessboard, London 1938 (English) German edition: Opening traps on the chessboard, Joachim Beyer Verlag, Eltmann 2014, ISBN 978-3-940417-72-5 .
  • How to play chess endings, Philadelphia 1940. (Eng.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to Jeremy Gaige: Chess Personalia . McFarland, Jefferson 1987, p. 480.
  2. ↑ Chessmetrics.com
personal data
SURNAME Znosko-Borovsky, Eugène
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Зноско-Боровский, Евгений Александрович (Russian); Znosko-Borovskij, Evgenij Aleksandrovič (scientific transliteration); Snosko-Borowsky, Eugène; Snosko-Borowski, Eugène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French chess player of Russian origin
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Pavlovsk (Saint Petersburg)
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1954
Place of death Paris