Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Sucharew

Konstantin Sucharew 2003 at a senior tournament in the city chess club in Novosibirsk

Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Sucharew ( Russian Константин Константинович Сухарев , scientific transliteration Konstantin Konstantinovič Sucharev ; born February 26, 1912 in Achinsk ; † October 8, 2004 in Novosibirsk and author ) was a Russian composer and writer , Poet Shach.

chess

Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Sucharew learned to play chess from his father at the age of five or six. In August 1927 he took second place in the championship of adults in Achinsk. Also in 1927 he published a double move in Sowjetskaja Sibir (German Soviet Siberia ). Sukharev became a columnist for a local newspaper. He gained greater prominence through a study published in 1930 (see below), which was later reprinted many times, for example in Genrich Gasparjan's Domination in 2545 Endgame Studies .

From 1963 to 1993 Sucharew headed a column in the newspaper Wetscherny Novosibirsk (German Novosibirsk in the evening ). He held many solving and composition tournaments for chess problems and studies. Siberian successes were published through Bondarenko , and contact between Sucharew and John Roycroft was established in January 1981 .

Chess composition events became the norm in the Soviet Union, especially Odessa , Chelyabinsk, and Brovary (near Kiev ) by Sukharev. In 1998 he and Oleg Perwakow judged the tournament at the World Congress of Chess Composition in Leningrad / Saint Petersburg and in 2003 alone in Moscow as a judge. Sukharev also initiated the tournaments between the Hero Cities and the match between Eastern and Western Russia.

Under Sucharew's influence, well-known chess composers grew up, whom he often visited at home. On Sukharev's 90th birthday, the President of the Russian Chess Federation, Andrei Selivanov , flew in from Moscow, and Vasha Neidze wrote a letter to Sukharev expressing his appreciation.

In his later years Sukharev wrote several books, including the chess books Chess in Siberia (1995), Novosibirsk's Chess Composers (2000) and his collection of poems Women and the Homeland .

In 1977 the Siberian team took second place in the VI. Championship of the Russian Federation and in 1995 it even won the XII. Championship with Mikhail Danilow, Vladimir Winitschenko, Grigori Gamsa, Rudolf Larin, Wiktor Tschupin, Konstantin Sukharew and Daniil Jakimowitsch.

Sukharev was known to his friends by his nickname Tin Tinitsch (quick pronunciation of the first and father names).

Private

Sucharev's father, Konstantin Makarowitsch Sucharew (* 1891 , † 1920 ), who was a leading employee of the early Siberian customer company Sakupsbyt (Russian Закупсбыт, German about buying and selling ), died in the civil war. His mother, Alexandra Feodorovna (* 1886 , † 1983 ) raised Sukharev to be close to home.

After Sucharew graduated from school in 1928, he worked in a survey team . In 1933 he trained in geodesy and in 1934 in astronomy . With the regional reorganization in 1935, he came to the new Oblast capital Novosibirsk. During the Second World War he was drafted into the military in 1942 and led a mortar division. Because of an injury in his left forearm in August 1942, he was released from the army and sent back to Novosibirsk. Until 1972 he worked in geodesy and traveled all over Siberia, until he retired as a leading specialist in geodesy and topography .

Sucharev died on October 8, 2004.

Famous study

The following study has been reprinted widely in chess books and anthologies .

Konstantin K. Sucharew
Schachmatny Listok, 1930

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

White to move wins

Solution:

1. Be1 – g3 Qh2xg3
2. Nd1 – c3 + Kd5 – e5
3. Rb6 – b5 +
and depending on where the black king moves, 4. Nc3 – e2 + or 4. Nc3 – e4 + wins.

1.… Qh2 – h1 / h3
2. Rb6 – d6 + Kd5 – e4
3. Nd1 – f2 +

1.… Qh2 – d2 +
2. Nd1 – c3 + Kd5 – d4
3. Rb6 – d6 +

each with a women's prize.

In January 2005, 15-year-old Ivan (Wanja) Botscharow improved the piece by placing Bh6 after h7. This resulted in the additional variant 1.… Qh6 2. Nc3 + Kd4 3. Bf4! Qf8 + 4.Rd6 + Qxd6 + 5. Bxd6 or 3.… Qxf4 4. Ne2 + with a win.

On May 8th 2007 Arpad Rusz found out that the piece is correct even without the pawn on h6.

Works

• Wladimir Neistadt and Konstantin Sucharew, A trap for the black king (Russian Ловушка для чёрного короля (Lowuschka dlja tschornogo korolja)), Barnaul, 1994, ISBN 5-88198-009-3 , 176 pp.
• Witali Kowalenko and Konstantin Sucharew, A trap for the black king (Russian Ловушка для чёрного короля (Lovuschka dlja tschornogo korolja)), Volume 2, Novosibirsk, 1999, 93 pp.
• Ruwim Kuhr, Wladimir Neistadt and Konstantin Sucharew, Chess in Sibiria (Russian Сибирь шахматная (Sibir schachmatnaja)), Barnaul-Novosibirsk, 1995, ISBN 5-88198-012-3 , 224 pp.
• Konstantin Sukharev, Novosibirsk chess composer (Russian Шахматные композиторы Новосибирска (Schachmatnyje kompository Novosibirska)), Novosibirsk, 2000, 111 pp.
• Konstantin Sukharev, The Tournaments of Heroes' Cities and Other Chess Composition Competitions (Russian Матчи городов-героев и другие соревнования по шахмания по шахмания по шахманититной комodпозицитиной комodпозициция , 1998, 103, S.
• Konstantin Sukharev, pearls of the homeland. About home and women. Poems and memories. (Russian Жемчужины родного края. О Родине и о женщинах. Избранное (Schemchuschiny rodnogo kraya. O rodine io zhentschinach. Izbrannoe)), Novosibirsk, 1998, S.