Georgi Wassiljewitsch Afanassjew

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Georgi Vasilyevich Afanasyev ( Russian Георгий Васильевич Афанасьев , Belarusian Георгій Васільевіч Афанасьеў / Heorhiy Vasilyevich Afanasjeu * 24. December 1909 in Moscow ; † 26. March 1971 ) was a Soviet- Belarusian chess composer .

Afanassiev's first study was published in 1927 in the Russian chess magazine 64 . He published more than 120 compositions, almost all of them studies, about half of them starting in 1965 as joint works with his student Yevgeny Ivanovich Dwisow . 25 of his studies received awards. His studies have made it into the prize ranks in team tournaments several times. His two favorite subjects were ignoring a double attack and being unleashed .

Private

Afanassjew was a construction technician. From 1952 he lived in Shodsina in the Minsk Oblast , but according to Dwisow he worked in the Red Army from the outbreak of war until 1957 .

Individual evidence

  • EG 26, October 1971, p. 286: Obituary according to information from Dwisow ( online view )
  1. ↑ Date of birth and death taken from: Composers Names in Various Alphabets ( Memento from January 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (English)
  2. ↑ Woltschek, Wikor; Beltschikow, Nikolai: Poesia schachmat Belorussii. Lida, 2004, p. 6. ISBN 985-6437-09-1 .
  3. ↑ Beltschikow, Nikolai; Lever, Wacław; Dwisow, Evgeni: Shachmatnaja komposizija v Belorussii. Polyma, Minsk, 1981, p. 31.

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SURNAME Afanassjew, Georgi Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Афанасьеў, Георгій Васільевіч (Belarusian); Афанасьев, Георгий Васильевич (Russian); Afanasjeu, Heorhij Wassiljewitsch (transcribed in Belarusian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-Belarusian chess composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1971