Grigory Jakowlewitsch lionfish

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grigory Levenfish.jpg
Grigori lionfish, 1936
Association Russian Empire 1883Russian Empire Russia Soviet Union
Soviet UnionSoviet Union 
Born March 19, 1889
Piotrków Trybunalski , Russian Empire
Died February 9, 1961
Moscow
title Grand Master (1950)
Best Elo rating 2677 (February 1939) ( Historic Elo rating )

Grigory Levenfish ( Russian Григорий Яковлевич Левенфиш ., Scientific transliteration Grigory Jakovlevic Levenfiš ; March * as Gerszik Lewenfisz 7 . Jul / 19th March  1889 greg. In Piotrkow Trybunalski , † 9 February 1961 in Moscow ) was a Russian - Soviet chess - Grand Master .

Life

Grigori Löwenfisch learned to play chess from his father when he was 6 years old. He spent his childhood in Lublin . From 1909 he studied chemistry in Saint Petersburg and won the city championship in chess there. At the international tournament in Karlovy Vary in 1911 he won the championship title of the German Chess Federation . After the end of the First World War, he stayed in Soviet Russia , where he worked as a chemist and played chess as an amateur . He took part in the championship of the USSR , which was held for the first time in 1920 , and came third, and in 1923 he was second. In 1934/35 he shared the tournament victory with Ilya Rabinowitsch . In 1935 he took part in the international tournament in Moscow and came in 6/7. Space. In 1937 he won the state championship and was at the height of his chess career. Following this, a match with Mikhail Botvinnik was arranged in Moscow to determine the best player in the Soviet Union. The final score of 6.5: 6.5 against the eventual world champion can be seen as a great success for Löwenfisch. Since Löwenfisch was already considered a representative of the older generation and the Soviet chess officials preferred his younger competitor Botvinnik, Löwenfisch was not allowed to travel abroad to take part in tournaments there.

Within the Soviet Union, Löwenfisch appeared primarily as the author of numerous articles in chess newspapers and books and can be regarded as one of the founders of the so-called Soviet chess school . He was a major opening and endgame theorist . A sharp attack in the dragon variant is named after him .

He achieved his best historical rating of 2677 in February 1939. At that time he was one of the ten best players in the world.

In 1950 he was awarded the newly introduced Grandmaster title by FIDE.

Works

His most popular works include:

  • “Perwaja kniga schachmatista” (The Chess Player's First Book), Leningrad 1925.
  • "Schachmaty dlja natschinajuschtschich" (Chess for Beginners), Leningrad 1950.
  • "Teorija ladieinych okontschani" (theory of rook endings), together with Vasily Smyslow , Moscow 1957.
  • Isbrannyje partii i wospominanija (Selected Games and Memoirs), Moscow 1967.

Web links

Commons : Grigori Lionfish  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. А. Кентлер: Тот самый Левенфиш ( Russian ) February 20, 2011. Retrieved April 26, 2011.
  2. ^ Klaus Lindörfer: Large chess dictionary . Mosaik Verlag, Munich 1984, p. 160, ISBN 84-499-8080-1 .
  3. Chessmetrics Player Profile April 22, 2006 (English)
  4. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 74.