Igor Alexejewitsch Polovodin

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Igor Alexejewitsch Polowodin ( Russian Игорь Алексеевич Половодин , at the World Chess Federation FIDE Igor Polovodin ; born March 23, 1955 in Vologda ; † June 22, 2005 ibid) was a Russian chess player and coach. He was the first International Master (1984) in the Vologda region.

Life

Polovodin learned chess at the age of five and became a first category player at the age of eleven. He was trained in the Vologder Pioneer House under the direction of Vladimir Kuznetsov. He celebrated his first major success in 1969 when he won the Russian U14 championship in Nalchik . In the next year he finished third behind Iwar Kiwlan and Arshak Petrosian at the Soviet youth championship in Vilnius . After graduating from school, he completed a degree in civil engineering for water supply and wastewater management at the North-West Polytechnic Distance Learning University. He then did military service in Leningrad and stayed there for many years.

Since 1976 he has held the title of national master. At the Leningrad City Championship in 1979 he shared first place with Mark Zeitlin. After no winner could be determined in the following match, Polowodin was declared the champion due to the better evaluation in the main tournament. In 1980 he shared victory with Lew Psachis at an international tournament in Nałęczów, thus fulfilling his first IM standard. The second missing norm he made in 1984 in Asenovgrad . In the years to come, however, Polowodin was unable to show any results worth mentioning, with a few exceptions. Most recently he appeared with a shared third place at the relatively weak White Nights Open 2004 in Saint Petersburg.

Polovodin acted as a coach in the Leningrad Bolshevik Sports Club and then at the Vologda State Technical University. In 1981, 1986 and 1988 he seconded Maia Chiburdanidze at the World Chess Championships for women . For his work he was awarded the honorary title of Honored Trainer of the Georgian SSR . In 1993 he helped Anatoly Karpov during his preparation for the FIDE World Cup against Jan Timman . He also trained Valery Salov , Andreï Sokolov and Gata Kamsky .

He reached his best Elo rating of 2468 in January 1999.

Works

  • I. Bojki, I. Polowodin: Chess in self-teaching . Biznes Sport, Sankt-Peterburg 1992.
  • I. Polovodin: Is proschlogo vologodskich schachmat: (K istorii schachmat w Rossii) . Jewstoli, 1999. (Russian)
  • I. Polovodin: Shachmatnaja komposizija na Vologodtschine . Uralsky problemist, 2003. (Russian)

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personal data
SURNAME Polovodin, Igor Alexejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Половодин, Игорь Алексеевич (Russian); Polovodin, Igor (FIDE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chess player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Vologda
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 2005
Place of death Vologda