Lev Abramovich Aronson

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Lev Abramowitsch Aronson ( Russian Лев Абрамович Аронсон ; * 1924 , † 1974 ) was a Soviet chess player and an engineer by profession .

Life

Aronson played chess from the age of 13. He was trained in the chess section of the Leningrad Pioneer Palace under the direction of Mikhail Botvinnik . In 1940, as a player in the first category, he achieved second place at the Leningrad Schoolchildren Championship. Behind him was the out of competition playing national champion Alexei Sokolski . During his studies at the Leningrad Institute for Device Construction between 1942 and 1948 he made it to the master candidate in chess. He often took part in Leningrad City Championships and in 1956 was tied for second with Dmitri Rowner . However, the best players in town stayed away from the competition at the time. After seven years in the again weak championship Aronson shared the 2nd – 4th. Place behind Boris Vladimirov .

In the semifinals of the Soviet championship , he made his master's norm in 1956. Earlier in the same year he was defeated in the match for the title of national champion Abram Chasin with 6.5: 7.5. In January 1957 he started for the first and last time in Moscow in the finals of the USSR championship. With 7½ out of 21 points, Aronson landed on a shared last place. His game against Alexander Tolusch in the penultimate round caused a sensation , which he lost after ten moves and fifteen minutes of his own thinking. This gave Tolusch the chance to win the championship, but gambled it away against Michail Tal in the final round .

Although he did not achieve any great tournament success, Aronson defeated players like Boris Spasski , Vladas Mikėnas or Raschid Neschmetdinow during his playing career . In the friendly game Leningrad versus Hungary in 1957, he managed two draws against Tibor Flórián . With his historic Elo rating of 2581, he was 67th in the world rankings in 1956.

literature

  • L. Abramow, A. Konstantinopolski et al: Schachmatnyj Slowar , Moscow 1964, p. 190 (Russian)
  • S. Flohr: Skwos prismu poluweka . So. Rossija, Moscow 1986, p. 127 (Russian)

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Individual evidence

  1. See also The Alekhine v Nenarokov Hoax by Edward Winter . Retrieved January 5, 2015