Igor Arkadyevich Saizew

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Igor Arkadevich Saizew ( Russian Игорь Аркадьевич Зайцев , scientific transliteration Igor 'Arkadevič Zajcev ; born May 27, 1938 in Ramenskoje ) is a Russian chess master .

Saizew won the Moscow championship in 1969, became international champion a year later and in 1976 was awarded the title of grandmaster by FIDE . He was the coach of the ex-world champion Anatoli Karpov , whom he supervised as a second together with Efim Geller in his 1985 World Cup fight against Garry Kasparov . His Elo rating is 2361 (as of July 2016), his highest rating of 2520 he reached in July 1971.

In 2011 he was appointed head coach of the Central Chess Club in Moscow.

Contributions to opening theory

Saizev was a leading opening theorist during his playing career . A number of openings are named after him. In the Ruy Lopez 1. e2-e4 e7-e5 2. g1-f3 Nb8-c6 3. L f1-b5 is in the closed defense 3. ... a7-a6 4. Lb5-a4 Ng8-f6 5. 0-0 Bf8 –E7 6. Rf1 – e1 b7 – b5 7. Ba4 – b3 d7 – d6 8. c2 – c3 0–0 9. h2 – h3 the move 9.… Bc8 – b7 as a Flohr-Saizew variant ( ECO code C92 ) designated.

In the open defense of the Spanish game 3.… a7 – a6 4. Bb5 – a4 Ng8 – f6 5. 0–0 Nf6xe4 ( C80 ) Saizew discovered after 6. d2 – d4 b7 – b5 7. Ba4 – b3 d7 – d5 8 d4xe5 Bc8 – e6 9. Nb1 – d2 Ne4 – c5 10. c2 – c3 d5 – d4 the knight sacrifice 11. Nf3 – g5 . With this move Karpov was able to surprise Viktor Korchnoi at the 1978 World Chess Championship , and Kasparov also won against Viswanathan Anand at the 1995 World Chess Championship.

Against the Volga-Benkö gambit 1. d2 – d4 Ng8 – f6 2. c2 – c4 c7 – c5 3. d4 – d5 b7 – b5 after 4. c4xb5 a7 – a6 is the move 5. Nb1 – c3 ( A57 ) after Named Saizew. In 1974 Saizew first tried this idea against the inventor of the gambit Pál Benkő in the Solnak tournament , but had to give up the game after 26 moves.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The year of birth of Saizew different sources give different (1937, 1938, 1939).
  2. ^ Igor Zaitsev on teaching children chess in the digital age ( Memento of December 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Whychess.org, October 5, 2011
  3. ↑ Igor Arkadievich Zaitsev vs Pal Benko 1974 , game on Chessgames.com

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personal data
SURNAME Saizew, Igor Arkadyevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zaitsev, Igor A (FIDE); Зайцев, Игорь Аркадьевич (Russian); Zajcev, Igor 'Arkadevič (scientific transliteration); Zaitsev, Igor Arkadyevich (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Ramenskoye