Lev Psachis

Lev Psachis, 2004
Association	Soviet Union (until 1989) Israel (since 1990)
Born	November 11, 1958 Kalinin
title	International Master (1980) Grand Master (1982)
Current  Elo rating	2450 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2625 (January 1995)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Lew Psachis (previously Russian Лев Борисович Псахис / Lew Borissowitsch Psachis, Hebrew לב פסחיס; * November 11, 1958 in Kalinin ) is an Israeli chess master with roots in the Soviet Union.

Life

Lew Psachis, 1982 at the Dortmund Chess Days

Psachis won the championship of the RSFSR in 1977 and the tournament of young champions of the Soviet Union in 1979 . His first participation in the USSR championship in 1979 (12th place) was followed by a surprising shared victory in 1980 with Alexander Beliavsky . A year later, Psachis won again, shared with Garry Kasparov , whom he defeated in a direct encounter.

In 1980 he became International Master and won in Nałęczów ( Lublin Voivodeship ), in 1981 he won in Sarajevo . In 1982 he became a grandmaster .

In 1982 he shared 2nd and 3rd place at the zone tournament in Yerevan and qualified for the interzonal tournament in Las Palmas , where he shared 8th to 10th place. Also in 1982 he was third at the Dortmund Chess Days behind Vlastimil Hort and Oleh Romanyschyn . In April 1988 in Calcutta he finished second behind Ian Rogers . December 1988 he was divided first in Belgrade together with Gurevich and Polugajewski . In 1990 Psachis emigrated to Israel, where he won the Israeli championship in 1997 and 1999 .

Psachis gained a good reputation especially as a trainer and second . He seconded world class players such as Garri Kasparow , Artur Jussupow , Zsuzsa Polgár , Judit Polgár and Emil Sutovsky . He has been FIDE Senior Trainer since 2004. Psachis is considered a serious theorist who publishes regularly (as for ChessBase ). He wrote several books on the French defense . Psachis lives mainly in Russia again. In August 2011 he received a new liver through a transplant in Tel Aviv .

His best world ranking was seventh in July 1982 (tied with Henrique da Costa Mecking and Ljubomir Ljubojević ).

National team

From 1990 to 2002 he took part in all seven Chess Olympiads for Israel . He also took part in three European team championships ; 1983 for the Soviet Union, which won the tournament, 1992 and 1999 for Israel. He achieved the best individual result on the seventh board in 1983 and on the fourth board in 1999.

societies

Psachis took part in the European Club Cup five times ; 1984 for the team from Burevestnik Moscow , which lost to local rivals Trud in the final , 1990 for Lokomotiv , 1992 for Lyon-Oyonnax , 1993 for ASA Phoenix Tel-Aviv and 1997 for the Herzliya Chess Club .

Works

• The complete French , Batsford, London 1992, ISBN 0-7134-6965-X .
• Complete Benoni , Batsford, London 1995, ISBN 0-7134-7765-2 .
• Advance and other anti-French variations , Batsford, London 2003, ISBN 0-7134-8843-3 .
• French defense 3 Nd2 , Batsford, London 2003, ISBN 0-7134-8825-5 .
• French defense 3 Nc3 Bb4 , Batsford, London 2003, ISBN 0-7134-8841-7 .
• French defense: Steinitz, classical and other systems , Batsford, London 2004, ISBN 0-7134-8941-3 .
• Advanced chess tactics , Quality Chess, Glasgow 2011, ISBN 978-1-907982-04-0 .

Web links

Commons : Lev Psachis  - Collection of Images

• Homepage of Psachis ( Memento of September 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• Playable chess games by Lev Psachis on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Salo Flohr : 48th Championship of the USSR in Vilna. A. Beljawski and L. Psachis won. Schach-Echo 1981, volume 3, title pages (with cross table).
2. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 78.
3. ↑ Dortmund Chess Days 1982
4. ^ Ian Rogers: GM tournament in Calcutta . Schach-Echo 1988, issue 6, pages 228 and 229 (report, cross table, games).
5. ↑ Ian Rogers : GMA-Open with 100 grandmasters - six tied at the tournament of the stars in Belgrade (event of the Grandmaster Association ). Schach-Echo 1989, issue 1, pages 3 and 4 (report, table, games).
6. ↑ С возвращением, Лев Борисович! on chess-news.ru (Russian), published March 20, 2012, accessed June 30, 2015
7. ↑ Elo history at olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ Lev Psachis results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
9. ↑ Lew Psachis results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
10. ↑ Lew Psachis results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)