Nikolai Alexandrovich Novotelnow

Nikolay Novotelnov ( Russian Николай Александрович Новотельнов ; born December 1 ^{. Jul} / 14. December  1911 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg , † the 30th December 2006 ) was a Soviet chess players .

Life

Nowotelnow attracted attention as a chess player at the Leningrad competitions in the 1930s. At the end of 1933 he won a game against Salo Flohr in the simultaneous game, in April 1936 he was fifth behind Pyotr Dubinin , Dmitri Rowner and other participants in one of the three groups at the All-Union Sawizki memorial tournament for the players in the first category. Before the war he was a candidate for a master craftsman. In the Leningrad city championship in 1941 he was with 4½ points out of 6 in first place, before the tournament had to be canceled at the end of December. He then did military service and lived in Grozny for several years . In the semifinals of the Soviet championship in Baku in 1945 , he shared fourth place with Vitaly Chekhov , thus fulfilling his championship standard. In the summer of 1947 he won the Russian championship in Kuibyshev with 11½ points out of 13 and relegated Alexei Ivashin and Raschid Neschmetdinow to places 2 and 3.

In the same year he played at the international Chigorin Memorial in Moscow and came in sixth place with 9 points out of 15 (4½ out of 6 against foreign participants) in the final table. His game against Isaak Boleslawski was awarded the prize for his contribution to opening theory. In the tournament report, Pyotr Romanowski praised Nowotelnow for his pointed style, which was dangerous for all players. Because of his success, Nowotelnow was awarded the title of International Master in 1951 .

In 1950 he won tournaments in Krasnodar and Chelyabinsk . The next year he won the semifinals of the championship of the USSR in Baku, where he was able to leave players like Mark Taimanov , Ratmir Cholmow , Semyon Furman behind. In the top-class final, which took place in Moscow in the winter of 1951, he had to be content with the penultimate place. Before this tournament he won the 1951 Soviet team championship in Tbilisi with the Russian selection . In 1952 he was third with Spartak in the team cup of the sports associations of the USSR in Odessa . In the 1960s he retired from tournament chess. With his historical Elo rating of 2655, he was ranked 20th in the world in 1948. In the Soviet rankings (as of January 1950) he took 33rd place.

Nowotelnow completed a degree in economics. He worked as a chess teacher and official, such as secretary of the Leningrad chess section and head of the chess section in Grozny. He edited the chess section in the Leningradskaya Pravda and Na Strasche Rodiny newspapers . He also emerged as a poet with his book Na Gornoi Trope .

Endgame analysis

Volovich - Lyawdansky, Moscow 1968

	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

Black to move

The diagram shows the position from the abandoned game between Anatoly Wolowitsch and Vladimir Ljawdanski in the match between Moscow and Leningrad, 1968. At this point it was 39½: 39½, but the main referee Lev Polugajewski refused to score the game because the final was queen and pawn against Dame has not been adequately investigated by the theorists. This was followed by a lively exchange of views in the Soviet specialist press. Georgi Lissizyn said in 64 that he had found a forced win for Black. Nowotelnow contradicted him with a detailed, but not entirely correct analysis, which was published in the English translation in 1971 in British Chess Magazine . Vadim Faibissowitsch took up the topic, the whole thing was then summarized by Yuri Averbach in his book. According to a study by Ken Thompson (Computer Belle), which appeared in the fourth volume of the Encyclopedia of Chess Endings in 1989, the game should end in a draw.

Works

• Nikolai Nowotelnow: Na gornoi trope: sbornik stichow . Checheno-Ingushskoje knischnoje isd-wo, Grozny 1958. (Russian)
• Nikolai Nowotelnow: Snakomtes: schachmaty . 2. isdanije, Fiskultura i sport, Moscow 1981. (Russian)

literature

• Anatoli Karpow et al .: Chess - encyclopedic dictionary , Sowjetskaja enzyklopedija, Moscow 1990, ISBN 5-85270-005-3 , p. 274. (Russian)

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Nowotelnow on 365Chess.com (English)
• Interview with Nikolai Nowotelnow (English)
• Compositions by Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Nowotelnow on the Schwalbe's PDB server

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mikhail Botvinnik: Meschdunarodny schachmatny turnir pamjati MI Chigorina: sbornik partij . Komitet po delam fisitscheskoi kultury i sporta pri Sowete Minstrow RSFSR, Moscow 1950, p. 27.
2. ↑ Chessmetrics player profile (accessed December 27, 2012)
3. ^ WW Ragosin: Schachmaty sa 1947-1949 . Moscow 1951, p. 441.
4. ↑ Yuri Averbach: Shachmatnyje okonschanija: fersewyje . Fiskultura i sport, Moscow 1982, pp. 78-83.
5. ↑ Wadim Faibissowitsch: Mattschi titanow . In: Schachmatny Peterburg, No. 4, 2002, p. 45.