Fyodor Dus-Chotimirski

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Fyodor Dus-Chotimirski, 1923
Association Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Soviet Union
Born September 26, 1879
Chernihiv , Russian Empire
Died November 6, 1965
Moscow
title International champion (1950)
Best Elo rating 2638 (January 1911) ( historical rating )

Fyodor Ivanovich Dus-Chotimirski ( Russian: Федор Иванович Дуз-Хотимирский , scientific transliteration Fedor Ivanovič Duz-Hotimirskij ; born September 26, 1879 in Chernihiv ; † November 6, 1965 in Moscow ) was a Soviet Shroud master .

Dus-Chotimirski came from a poor background. As a teenager he moved from his hometown of Chernihiv to Kiev , where he did various odd jobs and learned to play chess in Kiev cafés at the age of 19 . A few months later, he was one of Kiev's best players. Dus-Chotimirski won the Kiev championship in 1900, 1902, 1903 and 1906. As early as 1901, he took part in the All-Russian championship in Moscow for the first time, later until 1909 four more times, with his fourth place in 1909 in Vilnius being his best Placement (winner was Akiba Rubinstein ). In 1907 he took part in two tournaments in Moscow, where he won one before Georg Marco , the other after Mikhail Chigorin and the Moscow master Goncharov was third. In the same year he took part in an international tournament abroad for the first time: in Karlsbad he shared eleventh place with the American Frank James Marshall and was awarded the championship title. In 1908 he played a 3: 3 (+2 = 2 −2) match against the American in Warsaw . At the international tournament in St. Petersburg in 1909, he achieved spectacular victories over the two first prize winners, world champions Emanuel Lasker and Akiba Rubinstein. In 1910 he won the championship of St. Petersburg. In 1911 he shared first place in St. Petersburg with Eugène Znosko-Borovsky .

After the October Revolution of 1917, Dus-Chotimirski was one of the strongest players in the country and popularized the game of chess in the first years of the founding of the state through numerous trips, educational and organizational work and participation in local tournaments. He took part in numerous USSR championships between 1923 and 1949 , with his best placements in Leningrad in 1925 (5th place) and in Moscow in 1927 (shared third to fourth place with Abram Model ). In 1950 FIDE awarded him the title of International Master .

theory

Grandmaster Eduard Gufeld cited in his monograph on the Dragon variation of PANOWS book "Selected games" Dus-Chotimirskis memories:

“I first pronounced this name in 1901 in Kiev. I occupied myself with astronomy, observed the starry sky and noticed the external similarity of the pawn position d6 – e7 – f7 – g6 – h7 to the constellation of the dragon ”.

Works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information according to: Fjodor Dus-Chotimirski: Isbrannyje partii , Moscow 1955, p. 6f.
  2. ^ A. Kotov & M. Yudovich: The Soviet School of Chess , New York 1961, p. 284.
  3. ^ W. Litmanowicz & J. Giżycki: Szachy od A do Z , Vol. 1, Warsaw 1986, pp. 215-216.
  4. ^ Eduard Jefimowitsch Gufeld: Sizilianskaja Saschtschita . Fiskultura i sport, Moskwa, 1982, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Dus-Chotimirski, Fyodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Дуз-Хотимирский, Фёдор Иванович (Russian); Duz-Hotimirskij, Fedor (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian-Soviet chess player
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernihiv
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1965
Place of death Moscow