Chigorin Chess Club
The Chigorin Chess Club ( Russian Шахматный клуб имени М. И. Чигорина ) is a chess club from the Russian city of Saint Petersburg . It is named after the Russian chess player Mikhail Chigorin .
history
The association was founded in 1933. In February 1937 he moved into a building on Schelyabow Street in the city center. This was built in 1772 according to the designs of the German-Russian architect Georg Veldten and originally served as a French Reformed church. After the October Revolution , theological courses for Baptists were offered here. After 1930 it found further use as a house of atheist propaganda.
The first club manager was Jakow Rochlin , a chess official and friend of Mikhail Botvinnik . Shortly after the opening, a chess tournament took place in the club with the participation of Reuben Fine , Grigori Löwenfisch , Wsewolod Rauser and other players. Fine emerged as the winner. In the following years the Soviet championship 1956, many city championships and other tournaments were held in club rooms. The club, which has been nicknamed Chigorin since 1958 , also played a not insignificant role in Anatoly Karpov's life . In the summer of 1966 he fulfilled his master's standard here at a Scheveningen tournament .
In the mid-1960s the total area of the association was approx. 900 m². The club library contained around 2000 volumes. At various times, the staff included Vitaly Chekhov , Nikolai Nowotelnov , Gennady Sosonko , Pavel Kondratiev , Gennady Nessis , Vladislav Worotnikov and Anatoli Krutjansky . Well-known chess composers, including Vladimir Korolkow and Awenir Popandopulo , were actively involved in club life.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it was hardly possible for the club to maintain its gaming operations. In 1994 a chess school for children and young people was opened in its premises, as well as smaller departments for checkers and gorodki . Alexander Kochiev , Valery Loginov , Marat Makarov , Sergei Ionov , Valery Popov and Andrei Lukin have been employed as coaches over the years . Well-known students are Pyotr Swidler , Vasily Jemelin , Alexander Schimanow , Kirill Alexejenko , Evgenija Owod , Anastassija Bodnaruk , Alina Balajan and Anna Stjaschkina . With the support of Gazprom , the restoration work on the building, which was completed in September 2009, was carried out. In the Russian Chess Cup final, which took place there in November of the same year, Evgeni Barejew (open group) and Tatiana Stepowaja won .
Although the club actually no longer functioned, teams formed on the basis of the chess school took part in the Russian team championship since the 2000s. Around 2003 the women's team Chigorin Chess Club was put together, the men's team followed in December 2004. In 2004 the women took third place , in 2015 and 2016 as Sdjuschor SchSch ( Russian СДЮСШОР ШШ ) the second place. They also played three times in the European Club Cup . The best result of the men's team in the Russian championship was sixth place in 2011, 2012 and 2014.
Web links
- Homepage (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ French Reformed Church in the online encyclopedia Saint Petersburg (Russian)
- ↑ Jubilee on e3e5.com (Russian)
- ↑ Results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)