Roman Dzindzichashvili

Roman Dzindzichashvili at the 1984 Chess Olympiad
Association	Soviet Union (until 1976) Israel (1977 to 1979) United States (since 1980)
Born	May 5, 1944 Tbilisi , Soviet Union
title	International Master (1970) Grand Master (1977)
Current  Elo rating	2550 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2595 (January 1979)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Roman Dzindzichashvili ( Georgian რომან ჯინჯიხაშვილი , Russian Роман Яковлевич Джинджихашвили / Roman Jakowlewitsch Dschindschichaschwili; born May 5, 1944 in Tbilisi ) is an American chess player of Georgian origin.

Life

In 1962 he won the junior chess championship of the Soviet Union , in 1966 and 1968 the student championship. In 1970 he won the title of International Master . In 1972 he came in the USSR Championship in Baku with 9.5 points from 21 games on the shared 13th to 16th place. The following year he won the 1st division tournament. Dzindzichashvili was Georgian champion six times.

In 1976 he emigrated to Israel . In 1977 he became chess grandmaster . In 1978 he won the Israeli championship and played on the first board for Israel at the Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires . Also in 1978 he won the tournament in Hastings undefeated. In 1979 he lived in Germany for a few months and played two games in the Bundesliga chess league for Königsspringer Frankfurt.

He then moved to the USA and won several tournaments there in 1979 and 1980, including the Open tournaments in Lone Pine and Philadelphia . In 1983 and 1989 he won the USA championship .

Later, "Dzindzi", as he is usually called because of his difficult to pronounce name, worked as a chess trainer and looked after the world-class player Gata Kamsky , among others . He has produced over 100 instructional videos on chess on DVD under the title Roman's Lab . In 2005 he published the books Chess Openings For White, Explained ( ISBN 1-889323-11-X ) and Chess Openings For Black, Explained ( ISBN 1-889323-12 ) together with co-authors Lev Alburt , Al Lawrence and Eugene Perelshteyn -8 ).

He is an excellent blitz player and enjoys legendary status in the Internet Chess Club , where he played many thousands of games.

Several opening variants are named after him:

• Djin ( ECO Code E10) 1. d2 – d4 Ng8 – f6 2. Ng1 – f3 e7 – e6 3. c2 – c4 a7 – a6, which is after the next moves 4. Nb1 – c3 c7 – c5 5. d4 – d5 b7 –B5 results in positions similar to the Blumenfeld gambit .
• Dzindzi-Indian (ECO Code A40) 1. d2 – d4 g7 – g6 2. c2 – c4 Bf8 – g7 3. Nb1 – c3 c7 – c5 4. d4 – d5 Bg7xc3 + 5. b2xc3 f7 – f5.

He made a cameo in the 1993 film Searching for Bobby Fischer .

Dzindzichashvili is listed as inactive by FIDE (as of January 2015) because he has not played a rated game since the South Carolina Open in Greenville (South Carolina) in June 2008 . With his highest rating of 2595 he was in 1979 together with Robert Huebner , Zoltán Ribli , Alexander Beliavsky and Josif Dorfman in 13th place in the world rankings.

National team

Dzindzichashvili took part in three Chess Olympiads , in 1976 in Haifa and 1978 in Buenos Aires with the Israeli team, in 1984 in Thessaloniki with the team of the United States, which reached third place. With the US selection, he also took part in the 1989 World Team Championship in Lucerne .

swell

1. ^ Bernard Cafferty and Mark Taimanow: The Soviet Championships . Cadogan, London 1998. ISBN 1-85744-201-6 . P. 157.
2. ↑ Eric Schiller: Win with the Djin . Chess Enterprises, Coraopolis 1994. ISBN 0-945470-40-1 .
3. ↑ Rating list from January 1979 on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Roman Dzindzichashvili's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Roman Dzindzichashvili's results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)

literature

• Manfred van Fondern: Roman Dzindzichashvili, his rise to the top of the world . Beyer-Verlag, Hollfeld 1982, ISBN 3-921202-66-3 .

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Roman Dzindzichashvili on 365Chess.com (English)
• Roman dzindzichashvili in the Internet Movie Database (English)