Sergei Vladimirovich Chawski

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Sergei Wladimirowitsch Chawski ( Russian Сергей Владимирович Хавский ; born February 15, 1928 , † August 10, 2016 ) was a Soviet , later Russian chess player and coach.

Life

Chawski was in the city during the Leningrad blockade in World War II and was used in air defense . He improved his skill level in the chess section of the local Pioneer Palace, so that he was selected as one of three Leningrad players for participation in the 1946 Soviet youth championship. In the final table he finished with 10.5 points from 15 games in third place behind Tigran Petrosjan and Yuri Vasilchuk. In the city championship of Leningrad in 1949 he reached a tied ninth place, the norm for the title of master candidate he exceeded by 2.5 points.

His results in the 1950s were rather inconspicuous, so he ended up on a shared twelfth and fourteenth place in the quarter-finals of the Soviet championship in 1953 in Leningrad and in the championship of the RSFSR in 1956 in Kislovodsk . Chawski achieved the norm of a national master at the 1st championship of the Leningrad Chess Club in 1959/1960. In April 1961 he won a 2-2 draw against Jozsef Pogats in a friendship match with Budapest . In the Leningrad city championship in 1966, he finished second behind Yevgeny Ruban. At the end of 1966 he was first ahead of Viktor Gurevich and Mark Zeitlin in a tournament on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the defeat of the German troops in front of Moscow. In addition, he was able to show good results in the championships of the armed forces and the Vodnik Sports Association . In 1986, Chawski was third at the Furman Memorial Tournament in Leningrad. In the Russian senior championship in 1995 in Opalicha, he shared third place with Nikolai Krogius , Abram Chasin and two other players. Even in old age he remained loyal to chess and continued to take part in senior tournaments in Russia. His last tournament was the Russian Seniors Championship in April 2014.

Chawski, a former inland shipping captain, worked as a chess trainer in the Leningrad House of Officers and from 1972 in the Pioneer Palace . His students include Vladimir Jepischin , Sergei Ivanov and Maxim Matlakow . For his work he was honored with the badge of the best physical culture and sport of Russia .

He achieved his best historical rating of 2548 in November 1961.

literature

  • L. Abramow, A. Konstantinopolski and others: Schachmatnyj Slowar . Moscow 1964, p. 372. (Russian)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chessmetrics player profile (accessed December 7, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Chawski, Sergei Vladimirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Хавский, Сергей Владимирович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chess player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1928
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 2016