Vasily Michailowitsch Bywschew

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Vasily Michailowitsch Bywschew ( Russian Василий Михайлович Бывшев ; born February 18, 1922 in Starovo, today Tver Oblast ; † April 5, 1998 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Soviet chess player and coach.

Life

Byvschew was closely associated with the Leningrad Pioneer Palace from his youth. At fifteen he entered the chess section and after a year of training he reached the first category. From 1940 he did military service. During the war he was wounded in the defense of Moscow and from then on, after a break, was employed in the air defense, most recently as a platoon leader . After his release, he actively played chess again. In a semi-final of the Soviet championship in Vilnius in 1949, he shared the 5th-6th with Georgi Bastrikow. Space and thus fulfilled his master's standard.

In the 1950s, Byvschew was three times in the finals. The 1952 championship of the USSR in Moscow was turbulent for him. With half a point in the first five rounds, a good tournament result was hardly to be expected, but he won seven out of the next eight games and ended up sharing a decent 12th – 13th. Space. Among his victims was Vasily Smyslow , Paul Keres and Isaak Boleslawski, the crème de la crème of the chess world. It was not easy for him after two years in Kiev and 1956 in Leningrad. After twelve or eleven laps at the bottom of the table, he was only able to move up into midfield with a strong final sprint. Alexander Konstantinopolski described him as an attacking player who was extremely inventive when he showed his imagination and ability to calculate the complicated variants.

As a valuable team player, he was able to show remarkable results, especially at national level. With the Leningrad selection, he won the Soviet team championship in 1953 and came in second in 1955. In 1961 he won the Team Cup of the Sports Associations of the USSR with Burewestnik , in which he previously took second place twice with Nauka . In the friendly games of the Leningrad team versus Hungary in 1957 and Budapest in 1959, he drew two games against Győző Forintos and won a 2-2 win against Károly Honfi .

Bywschew, a trained lawyer, worked as a youth coach in the Pioneer Palace from 1953 until the last days of his life. His best-known students include Alexander Chalifman and Irina Levitina , and he also looked after Yevgeny Soloshenkin , Vladislav Worotnikow and Sergei Klimov. In 1972 he was awarded the honorary title of Honored Trainer of the RSFSR .

literature

  • L. Abramow, A. Konstantinopolski et al .: Schachmatnyj Slowar , Moscow 1964, p. 212 (Russian)
  • XXI perwenstwo SSSR po schachmatam . Fiskultura i sport, Moscow 1955, p. 19 (Russian)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wassili Bywschew's results at Soviet team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Wassili Bywschews results at Soviet club championships on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Bywschew, Wassili Michailowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Бывшев, Василий Михайлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet chess player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Starovo, today Tver Oblast
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1998
Place of death St. Petersburg