Samuil Markowitsch Schuchowizki

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Samuil Markowitsch Schuchowizki ( Russian Самуил Маркович Жуховицкий ; at the World Chess Federation FIDE Samuel Zhukhovitsky; born December 12, 1916 in Odessa ; † October 29, 2016 in Novocherkassk ) was a Russian chess player and coach. Since 1967 he has held the title of International Master .

Life

Schuchowizki learned the game of chess at the age of eleven. In March 1936 he made his debut as a player in the first category at the Ukrainian championship in Kiev . He finished fifth with 10 out of 17 points and received the beauty prize for his game against Abram Poljak. In 1940 he was also fifth. During his time in the army, he took part in a qualifying tournament in Rostov-on-Don . Zhukhovitsky took second place behind Genrich Kasparjan and was declared Master of Sports of the USSR in October 1939 . Trained in a tank school during the war, he was briefly at the front and then deployed in the rear service. After his release, he studied history in Odessa and Leningrad .

At the Leningrad Championships in 1949 he shared the 2nd – 4th. Place and in 1950 the 3rd – 4th Space. In 1951 he was second behind Efim Geller at the championship of the sports association Nauka in Odessa. In the mid-1950s, Zhukhovitsky lived in Azerbaijan and from 1957 in Moldova . He was able to achieve remarkable success in both republics. In 1956 he was the Baku champion with 10.5 out of 14 points . The next year he won the Azerbaijani championship with 2.5 points ahead of Vladimir Bagirov . Between 1957 and 1959 he won three times in Moldova; In 1957 he started out of competition. In 1959, Shukhovitsky came into the crossfire of criticism and was subsequently disqualified by the Soviet Chess Federation . He has been charged with immoral behavior in public and private life.

Then he moved to Novocherkassk . With the selection of Rostov Oblast , he won the 1963 Spartakiad of the Peoples of the Russian Federal Soviet Socialist Republic (RSFSR) in Gorky . He presented himself in very good shape in 1967. In June he won the individual competition ahead of Boris Spassky and Lev Polugajewski at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the RSFSR in Leningrad and was also the Russian champion. After that he reached the second place with the Russian team at the Soviet team championship in Moscow . In August Shukhovitsky started as the only player without an international title at the Chigorin memorial tournament in Sochi . He secured a place in the middle of the table and thus achieved an IM standard.

In December 1967 he played for the first time at the Soviet championship in Kharkov , which was held in the Swiss system . With 7 points from 13 games, he finished 41st – 43rd. Space. After two years he prevailed in front of Mark Taimanow and Semjon Furman in a semi-final of the Soviet championship in Rostov-on-Don. Shukhovitsky was the oldest participant in the Moscow final, which was also held as a zone tournament . After the first half of the tournament at the bottom of the table, he caught up and finished in a respectable 13th place.

Schuchowizki worked as a history teacher in school and youth coach. He remained active in chess well into old age and took part in various senior tournaments , including the 1994 World Cup in Biel . He played his last rated game at the Russian Senior Championship in Kratowo in 2002 . It had its highest rating of 2470 in July 1971, before the introduction of the rating it had its highest historical rating of 2617 in November 1969 , which put it in 56th place in the world rankings.

literature

  • L. Abramow, A. Konstantinopolski and others: Schachmatnyj Slowar . Moscow 1964, p. 237 (Russian)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ В Новочеркасске умер старейший шахматист России Самуил Жуховицкий . Argumenty i Fakty , October 30, 2016, accessed October 31, 2016 (Russian).
    С.М.Жуховицкий. December 16, 1916 - October 29, 2016 . PapinChess , October 29, 2016, accessed October 31, 2016 (Russian).
  2. ↑ B. Turow: Sprawedliwoje reschenije . In: Schachmaty w SSSR . No. 2, 1960, p. 50 (Russian).
  3. ↑ Elo history at olimpbase.org, accessed on October 31, 2016 (English).
  4. ↑ Chessmetrics Player Profile: Samuil Zhukhovitsky . Samuel Schuchowizki's historic Elo ratings at chessmetrics.com, accessed October 31, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Schuchowizki, Samuil Markowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Жуховицкий, Самуил Маркович (Russian); Zhukhovitsky, Samuel (FIDE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chess player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 2016
Place of death Novocherkassk