Vasily Nikolayevich Panov

Vasily Panov, 1929
Association	Soviet Union
Born	November 1, 1906 Koselsk
Died	January 13, 1973 Moscow
title	International champion (1950)
Best Elo rating	2649 (January 1948) ( historical rating )

Vasily Nikolajewitsch Panow (born November 1, 1906 in Koselsk , † January 13, 1973 in Moscow ) was a Russian chess player , theorist , author and journalist.

Success as a player

Panov won the Moscow Championship in 1929 and in the same year played a match against Nikolai Grigoryev , which ended in a draw 6: 6. In the following years Panow took part in the finals of the Soviet championship five times (1935, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1948), but could never place in the front field. His greatest success as a player was the tournament victory in the semifinals of the USSR championship in Kiev in 1938. In 1950 FIDE awarded him the title of International Master .

Panow as a theorist, author and journalist

From 1942 to 1965 Panov was chess editor at Izvestia . He wrote biographies about Alekhine and Capablanca and in 1957, together with Jakow Estrin , the best-selling opening book in the Soviet Union, the Debjutow course . Today's chess players know Panow primarily for the Panow attack named after him within the Caro-Kann defense .

credentials

• Vasily N. Panov: Sorok let za shakmatnoi doskoi . 1966 (autobiography with 50 parts).
• Jakow Borissowitsch Estrin : Vasily Panov . 1986 (80 games).