Jakow Borisovich Estrin

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Jakow Borissowitsch Estrin ( Russian Яков Борисович Эстрин , scientific transliteration Jakov Borisovič Ėstrin ; born April 21, 1923 in Moscow ; † February 2, 1987 ibid) was a Soviet chess master and the seventh world chess champion .

Life

By profession a lawyer, he mainly occupied himself with chess, which he learned at the age of seven. After studying law in Moscow, he published a number of chess journalistic and chess theoretical works (more than 200 titles in total) and thus laid the foundation for his later chair for chess at the Moscow Sports University. He was named "Honored Trainer of the RSFSR ".

In close chess he achieved good results: in 1946 he tied for 2nd – 4th at the championships of the RSFSR. Space. In 1949 he received the title of Master of Sports . He took part in the finals of the Moscow Championships 13 times. Estrin won the European Club Cup in 1976 with Burevestnik Moscow . His best Elo rating was 2450, he had this from 1974 to 1976. Before the introduction of the Elo ratings , Estrin's best historical rating was 2580. He achieved this in November and December 1953. Because of his successes, FIDE awarded him the title in 1975 an international master.

He played correspondence chess since 1945. In 1963 he became correspondence chess master of the USSR and then took part in the 5th World Correspondence Chess Championship, in which he was 13th, in the 6th World Championship he was third, and then won the 7th (held from 1971 to 1975) finally. In 1946 he became international correspondence chess master , in 1966 correspondence chess grandmaster .

Estrin was particularly prominent as an opening theorist . Its opening monographs have been translated into numerous languages.

Works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Baumbach , Robin Smith, Rolf Knobel: Who is the Champion of the Champions? - Correspondence Chess - . Excelsior Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 202, ISBN 978-3-935800-04-4 .
  2. ↑ Jakow Estrin's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Jakow Estrin's Elo development at olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Jakow Estrin's historical Elo numbers on chessmetrics.com (English)
  5. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002. Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 92.
  6. ^ Fritz Baumbach, Robin Smith, Rolf Knobel: Who is the Champion of the Champions? - Correspondence Chess - . Excelsior Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 29, ISBN 978-3-935800-04-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Estrin, Jakow Borissowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ėstrin, Jakov Borisovič; Эстрин, Яков Борисович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet chess master and the seventh world correspondence chess champion
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH 2nd February 1987
Place of death Moscow