Yevgeny Filippovich Kuzminych

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Yevgeny Filippowitsch Kusminych ( Russian Евгений Филиппович Кузьминых ; born November 3, 1911 in Schachnowo, Ujesd Novaya Ladoga , Saint Petersburg Governorate ; † July 24, 1989 ) was a Soviet chess player and a mechanical engineer .

Life

Kusminych began his chess career in Leningrad in the mid-1920s. In 1933 he took part in a preliminary round tournament for the players in the first category and was first in his group, tied with Alexander Tolusch . In the following qualifying tournament, which was held in Leningrad in August of the same year, he finished fourth and narrowly missed the championship standard. At the Leningrad city championship in 1933/34 Kusminych was also fourth, where he was able to outstrip opponents such as Alexei Sokolski , Vyacheslav Ragosin and Vitaly Chekhov in the table. In another qualifying tournament in Kalinin in 1940 , he scored 7½ points from 11 games and was then declared national champion .

In June 1941, Kuzminych participated for the first time in a semi-final of the Soviet championship in Rostov-on-Don . There he was, like all the other participants, surprised by the outbreak of war and was its stalemate against David Bronstein until after the German invasion of the Soviet Union to finish. Two more rounds followed before the competition was finally abandoned. As a member of the army, Kuzminych served in the defense of Leningrad . He rose to platoon leader of the artillery reconnaissance and ended the war in Szczecin . For his military achievement he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the II class and several medals.

In 1945 he won the championship of the Leningrad Military District with 10½ points from 12 games. He fought several times to secure a place in the finals of the USSR championship. His best results in the semifinals were a tied fifth place in 1949 and tied seventh place in 1953. In 1970 he took part in a senior tournament for the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin organized by the Trud Sports Association. In the last phase of his life, Kusminych remained active in chess and played in local tournaments until the 1980s. His highest historical rating was 2533 in August 1950. In the Soviet rankings (as of January 1950) he was 53rd.

Kusminych also dealt theoretically with the game of chess. His pen includes essays on the Sicilian and Grünfeld-Indian defense , on the ladies' and Schara-Hennig gambit. In addition to Kirill Vinogradow and Nikolai Kopylow, he is one of the namesake of the Leningrad system in the Dutch defense .

literature

  • L. Abramow, A. Konstantinopolski et al: Schachmatnyj Slowar , Moscow 1964, p. 262. (Russian)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chessmetrics player profile (accessed October 29, 2012)
  2. ^ WW Ragosin: Schachmaty sa 1947-1949 . Moscow 1951, p. 441.
  3. ^ David Hooper and Ken Whyld : The Oxford Companion to Chess , Oxford University Press, 2nd edition 1992, ISBN 0198661649 , p. 222.
personal data
SURNAME Kuzminych, Yevgeny Filippowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кузьминых, Евгений Филиппович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet chess player
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Shachnowo, Ujesd Novaya Ladoga , Saint Petersburg Governorate
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1989