Vladimir Petrovs
Vladimir Petrovs ( Russian Владимир Михайлович Петров , Vladimir Mikhailovich Petrov ; born September 27, 1908 in Riga , Latvia , † August 26, 1943 in Kotlas ) was a Latvian chess player .
He learned to play chess at the age of 13 and made rapid progress. In 1926 he became city champion of Riga and took second place at the national championship. Petrovs won the Latvian individual championship four times (1930/31, 1935, 1937 and 1938/39) .
From 1928 to 1939 he took part in all seven Chess Olympiads with Latvia , as well as the unofficial Chess Olympiad in 1936 . He achieved his best results in 1931 in Prague , when he achieved the best individual result on the third board with 11.5 points from 16 games, and in 1939 in Buenos Aires , when he achieved the third-best individual result on the top board with 13.5 points from 19 games .
His best result in an individual tournament was in Ķemeri 1937, where he reached shared first place with 12 points from 17 games, tied with Salo Flohr and Samuel Reshevsky , but ahead of the reigning world chess champions Alexander Alekhine and Paul Keres .
After the occupation of Latvia by the Soviet Union , he took part in the 12th state championship of the USSR in Moscow in 1940 , where he finished 10th. Due to the circumstances of the war, he was separated from his wife Galina, who lived in Riga. He played his last tournament in 1942 in Sverdlovsk , where he finished second behind Vyacheslav Ragosin .
In August 1942 he was arrested by the NKVD for critical comments about the supply situation and imprisoned in a Gulag camp. There he died of pneumonia and malnutrition . In the Soviet Union he was considered a non-person, references to his tournament results and games were deleted from the chess books. It was not until January 1989 that he was rehabilitated by the Supreme Soviet .
His best historical rating was 2647 in September 1940.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Or September 22, 1907 according to: Bodo von Dehn: Known Baltic chess masters. in: Special print from Baltische Hefte , Volume 9 (1962/63), Issue 4, p. 239.
- ↑ Vladimir Petrovs' results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ Vladimir Petrovs' results at unofficial Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ Vladimir Petrovs' historical Elo numbers on chessmetrics.com (English)
literature
- Andris Fride: Vladimir Petrovs. A chessplayer's story from greatness to the gulags . Caissa Editions. Yorklyn 2004, ISBN 0-939433-61-3 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petrovs, Vladimirs |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Petrow, Vladimir Mikhailovich (Russian transcription) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Latvian chess player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riga |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 26, 1943 |
| Place of death | Kotlas |