Georgi Borisenko

Georgi Konstantinowitsch Borissenko ( Russian Георгий Константинович Борисенко ; born May 25, 1922 in Tschuhujiw , Ukrainian SSR ; † December 3, 2012 in Tashkent , Uzbekistan ) was a Soviet chess player , coach and opening theorist . He was Master of Sports of the USSR (1950) and Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1966).

Life

Borissenko came into contact with chess at the age of nine in a pioneer camp. Since 1933 he took part in various tournaments for children and young people in Leningrad . His schoolmate and play partner at the time was Semjon Furman , with whom he worked closely in the following years. From 1940 he carried the title of candidate for a master craftsman. During the war he was with the intelligence service and remained at the front until March 1945. After his release, he returned to Leningrad and began studying engineering at the Signaling and Telecommunications Institute for Electrical Engineering. In a semi-final of the Soviet championship in Tula in 1950, he shared first place with Juri Awerbach with 11.5 points out of 15 , thereby exceeding his championship standard. At the Leningrad Championship in 1953 he was third behind Semjon Furman and Viktor Korchnoi . In the same year he won the Soviet team championship with the Leningrad selection.

From 1956 Borissenko lived in Sverdlovsk . At the championships of the RSFSR 1961 and 1964 he shared the 2nd – 6th. Place and the 2. – 3. Space. From 1950 to 1967 he played eight times in the finals of the Soviet championship. Although he never reached a top place in the table, he achieved occasional victories at these tournaments against world-class players such as Vasily Smyslow , Boris Spassky and Lev Polugajewski . He was seen by experts as a recognized theory expert, but he could not divide his time to think about it correctly. Borissenko rarely took part in international competitions. At the Baltic Nations tournament in 1960 in Leningrad, he shared the 4th – 5th. Place with Vladas Mikėnas . Together with Zbigniew Doda he made the longest game that he won after 150 moves and almost 19 hours of playing time. At the Asztalos Memorial in 1965, there was another marathon game in the last lap. Borissenko absolutely needed a win against Győző Forintos to meet an IM norm. This time their game lasted 18 hours and ended in a draw after 136 moves. After moving to Tashkent in 1965 , Borissenko won the Uzbek championship in 1966, 1968 and 1971 . In his later years he took part in the Senior World Championships in 1997 in Bad Wildbad and in 1998 in Grieskirchen .

In 1950 he started to play correspondence chess . With the III. and V. Soviet Championships he shared first place with Pyotr Dubinin and Jakow Estrin, respectively . In both cases, Borissenko had the better fine rating, but this was not taken into account when awarding the title. His game against Rubesow (5th championship, 1960-63) was chosen as the best game of the tournament. With the Soviet team he triumphed in the III. and IV. Correspondence Chess Olympiads, which were held in the years 1958–61 and 1962–64. With the latter, he achieved the best result on the third board. In 1965 he was runner-up at the IV World Championships, one point behind the winner, Vladimir Sagorovsky .

Borissenko had been active as a chess trainer since the mid-1950s. Mark Taimanow , Ratmir Cholmow and Viktor Kortschnoi were among the players he temporarily looked after . Since 1980 he trained Nona Gaprindashvili and was awarded the honorary title of Honored Trainer of the Georgian SSR for his work . In Uzbekistan he supported players like Anton Filippov and Timur Gareyev . Borissenko made significant contributions to opening theory, researching among other things the Sicilian , King's Indian and Nimzowitsch-Indian defense . The Borissenko-Furman variant in the assumed Queen's Gambit and the Borissenko variant in the Spanish game are named after him.

After calculating the historical Elo number , it was with its highest rating of 2614 in January 1956 on the 46th place in the world rankings.

Private

His wife Valentina Borissenko (1920-1993) won the Soviet Union's chess championship five times .

literature

• Anatoli Karpow et al.: Chess - encyclopedic dictionary, Sowjetskaja enzyklopedija, Moscow 1990, p. 43, ISBN 5-85270-005-3 (Russian).

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Georgi Borissenko on 365Chess.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ В Ташкенте на 91-м году жизни скончался Георгий Борисенко (Russian)
2. ↑ B. Baranow; V. Mikėnas: Kijewskije wpetschatlenija. XXXII Tschempionat strany. In: Schachmaty w SSSR . No. 4, 1965, p. 5 (Russian).
3. ↑ Georgie Borissenko on chessmetrics.com (English)