Grigori Alexandrovich Helbach

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Grigori Helbach around 1906

Grigory Helbach ( Russian Григорий Александрович Гельбак Grigori Alexandrovich Gelbak ; born January 1 . Jul / 13. January  1863 greg. In Zvenigorodka , Kiev Governorate , † 3. August 1930 ) was a Russian chess player .

Life

Helbach learned chess in the late 1870s at a high school in Zhitomir . After studying in Kiev , he moved to Saint Petersburg in 1886 , where he significantly improved his skill level in the Association of Friends of Chess. His game against Alexei Schischkin from 1889, which he played with the black pieces, was called the “immortal Russian game” in contemporary publications, but this name has not become common. In 1891 he shared second place in a tournament with Emanuel Schiffers . In 1895 Helbach founded a chess club in Saint Petersburg, which was dissolved after only two years. His first major success is a victory shared with Sergei Lebedev at a tournament in April 1901 with 9.5 points from 13 games. In 1903 he shared first place with W. Kryschanowski and Schiffers at a tournament in the educational club with 11.5 points out of 15. The next year he won a free tournament of the St. Petersburg Chess Society, in another tournament he was 1st – 2nd, tied with Carl Rosenkrantz .

Together with Pyotr Evtifejew he won in 1905 in the tournament for players of the first category. In a similar tournament in 1907, he shared third place with Vasily Omeljanski , the sole winner was Yevgeny Snosko-Borowski . In the same year he won a small tournament ahead of Walter Henneberger . In 1908 he took part in the tournament for the title of master of the St. Petersburg Chess Society. Helbach, who jumped in at the last moment, only scored 2.5 points from 12 games and ended up in last place. In a large-scale tournament with 36 participants that took place in the fall of 1910, he reached the final and was seventh. In the All-Russian Championships he shared sixth place with Vladimir Nenarokow in 1899 , in 1905/1906 and 1909 in the side tournament, he finished behind.

Before the October Revolution, Helbach was employed as an official for special tasks in the Railway Department in the Ministry of Finance. After 1917 he moved to Moscow , where he was hired as a technician in the main railway administration. He improved his salary in the Moscow Chess Club and continued to play in some tournaments. In 1920 he was tied for fifth in a side tournament of the All-Union Olympics, and in 1925 he finished 7th in the small Moscow city championship. After his death, chess historian Michail Kogan published in 1937 in Schachmaty v SSSR Helbach's memories of Michail Tschigorin .

literature

  • Chess Yearbook for 1899/1900 , Veit & Comp., Leipzig 1899, p. 147
  • J. Dlugolenski, W. Sak: Ljudi i schachmaty: stranizy schachmatnoi istorii Peterburga-Petrograda-Leningrada . Lenizdat, 1988, ISBN 978-5-289-00137-5 , p. 78.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anatoli Karpow et al.: Chess - encyclopedic dictionary , Sowjetskaja enzyklopedija, Moscow 1990, ISBN 5-85270-005-3 , p. 36. (Russian)
  2. ↑ Wassili Panow: Michail Iwanowitsch Tschigorin: ego drusja, soperniki i wragi . Fiskultura i sport, 1963, p. 15. (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Helbach, Grigory Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Гельбак, Григорий Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Zvenigorodka , Kiev Governorate
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1930