Mark Ousatchi

Mark Ousatchi, Bad Liebenzell 1996
Association	Soviet Union (until 1991) Ukraine (1992 to 2004) Germany (from 2004)
Born	February 6, 1921 Kryschopil
Died	August 30, 2010 Hanover
title	FIDE Masters (1994)
Best Elo rating	2320 (January 1994)

Mark Ousatchi ( Russian Марк Владимирович Усачий / Mark Wladimirowitsch Ussatschi; born February 6, 1921 in Kryschopil , Ukrainian SSR ; † August 30, 2010 in Hanover ) was a Soviet , later Ukrainian chess player who was most recently eligible to play for the German Chess Federation .

Life

Ousatchi was a member of the chess section in the Kiev Pioneers' Palace . During his military service, he won the Chita Oblast Championship in 1946 . With Medik he was fourth in the All-Union Championship of the trade unions in 1951 in Leningrad , where he showed the best result on the fifth board. In 1955 he finished second behind Anatoly Bannik in the Kiev championship. In the same year he reached fourth place in the Ukrainian championship in Kiev and qualified with this result for the semifinals of the XXIII. Championship of the USSR. At the end of 1955 in Moscow , he finished 9th with 9.5 points out of 18 and was then awarded the title of Master of Sports of the USSR . With the Ukrainian selection, he was third at the Soviet team championship in 1955 in Voroshilovgrad . In the semifinals of the Soviet championship in 1959 in Chelyabinsk , he finished eleventh.

In 2004 Ousatchi switched from the Ukrainian Chess Federation to the German Chess Federation. He played club chess in Germany for PSC Hanover. He remained active in chess at an advanced age, so he took part in all senior world championships between 1991 and 2005 . At the 1991 World Cup in Bad Wörishofen he was fourth, tied with Andreas Dückstein , Nikolai Krogius and Wolfgang Unzicker . He has been a FIDE master since 1994 .

Ousatchi held the title of national and since 1978 international referee . He was chairman of the correspondence chess commission and member of the presidium of the Ukrainian Chess Federation. As a correspondence chess player , he took part in the II World Cup, which was attended by more than 2000 players. In the final, which was held between 1977 and 1983, he shared eighth place. With the team of the Ukrainian SSR he played in the Soviet championship. At the 1992 ICCF Congress in Graz he was awarded the title of International Correspondence Chess Master . He had met an IM standard at the Abonyi memorial tournament (Section 9, 1989–1995).

By profession, Ousatchi was a department head and deputy director of a drug factory in Kiev. He held the honorary title of Honored Inventor of Ukraine . On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the victory in the German-Soviet War, he was honored in 1985 with the Order of the Patriotic War of the Second Class .

His best historical rating was 2542 in August 1961.

literature

• L. Abramow, A. Konstantinopolski et al: Schachmatnyj Slowar , Moscow 1964, p. 361. (Russian)

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Mark Ousatchi on 365Chess.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mark Ousatchi on chessmetrics.com (English)