Lev Yakovlevich Abramov

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Lev Jakowlewitsch Abramow ( Russian Лев Яковлевич Абра́мов ; born June 14, 1911 in Warsaw , † February 29, 2004 in Moscow ) was a Russian chess player , arbitrator and official.

Life

Work and private life

Shortly after his birth, his parents moved with him to Saint Petersburg . He graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Public Works Engineers ( Russian: Ленинградский институт инженеров коммунального строительства / today's State University of Architecture and Construction of the Soviet Union during the Second World War of Architecture and Construction ) . He was awarded the Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union and the Order of the Red Labor Banner . After the Second World War he moved to Moscow.

Abramov was married and had a son, Alexander.

Chess career

In tournaments Abramov - who competed for Spartak Moscow - could hardly achieve significant success, although he took part in numerous. In 1939 he reached a shared third to sixth place in Leningrad, in 1948 he shared victory with Yuri Averbach at the championships of the voluntary sports company Zenit and in 1958 he came in fifth to sixth place in Moscow. In addition, he once reached the semi-finals of the USSR championship . During the short visit of the 15-year-old child prodigy Bobby Fischer and his sister Joan in Moscow in 1958, Abramov was chosen as their companion. As part of the FIDE Congress taking place in Differdange , Luxembourg , Abramov played several simultaneous games there on September 22, 1959, together with the then reigning women's world champion Jelisaweta Bykowa . His highest historical rating was 2520. Between 1956 and 1959 Abramov served as the head of the chess department of the State Committee for Physical Culture and Sports of the Soviet Union; then he was responsible secretary until 1961 and from 1961 to 1966 deputy chairman of the Soviet Chess Federation. In 1970 he acted as team leader of the victorious Soviet selection in the team competition between the USSR and the rest of the world in Belgrade . In 1940 Abramov was honored as the master of sport of the USSR - this title was awarded frequently in an inflationary manner and is therefore not associated with great reputation .

Lev Abramov was also considered a very accomplished correspondence chess player . Between 1957 and 1969 he was Deputy President of the International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF) and in the final ranking of the European Championships 1969-1972 he finished second to third. In 1979 he finally became international champion in correspondence chess. Between 2006 and 2008 the ICCF hosted the Lev Abramov Memorial , which was won by the Greek Jannis Serafim .

As early as 1957, Abramov had received approval as an international chess referee. For example, he supervised a game between Bobby Fischer and Mikhail Botvinnik during the 1962 Chess Olympiad in Varna , was deputy referee at the Soviet team championships in 1972 and directed a game between Mikhail Tal and Yevgeny Svezhnikov during the USSR championship in 1973.

He achieved lasting fame through his textbook Move by move , published in 1971 together with Bernard Cafferty , which is still one of the best publications of its kind.

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SURNAME Abramov, Lev Jakowlewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Абра́мов, Лев Яковлевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chess player, referee and official
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH February 29, 2004
Place of death Moscow