Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Ragosin

Vyacheslav Ragosin, 1936
Association	Soviet Union
Born	October 8, 1908 Saint Petersburg
Died	March 11, 1962 Moscow
title	Grand Master (1950)
Best Elo rating	2699 (August 1946) ( historical rating )

Viacheslav Ragozin ( Russian Вячеслав Васильевич Рагозин ., Scientific transliteration Vjačeslav Vasil'evič Ragozin * 8. October 1908 in Saint Petersburg ; † 11. March 1962 in Moscow ) was a Soviet chess - Grand Master and the second correspondence chess world champion .

Life

Ragosin, an engineer by profession , had chess successes in his native Saint Petersburg at the end of the 1920s. In 1930 he was awarded the Soviet championship title after he had beaten Alexander Fyodorowitsch Ilyin-Schenewski in a competition with 8: 6 (+6 = 6 −4). From the mid-1930s he succeeded again and again to achieve high placings at the USSR championships , without ever winning the title. He achieved excellent results at home and abroad in the 1940s. For example, in Moscow in 1947 he was second behind Botvinnik.

In 1950 the world chess federation FIDE , of which he was vice-president from 1950 to 1961, awarded him the title of grandmaster . He was a close friend and analysis partner of the world champion Mikhail Botvinnik . Botvinnik published a large number of secret training games with Ragosin in the 1980s.

The USSR received a free place for the 2nd World Correspondence Chess Championship, which began in 1955 , which the association awarded to Ragosin. This came as a surprise because the reigning USSR correspondence chess master was ignored. When the long-distance tournament ended in 1958, Grandmaster Ragosin was world champion.

Vyacheslav Ragosin died in 1962 before he could defend the title at the next tournament for the world championship.

A variant in the Queen's Gambit is named after Ragosin, who was one of the most thorough analysts in the Soviet Union : the Ragosin variant (1. d2 – d4 d7 – d5 2. c2 – c4 e7 – e6 3. Nb1 – c3 Ng8 – f6 4 Sg1-f3 Bf8-b4 ).

Game example

Ragosin-Alatorzew

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

End position after 33.Bxg7

In the following game Ragosin won with the white pieces at the USSR championship in Moscow in 1945 against Alatorzew .

Ragosin – Alatorzew 1-0

Moscow, June 23, 1945

Semi-Slav Defense , D46

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Nf3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 Bb4 7. 0–0 0–0 8. Dc2 Bd6 9. e4 dxc4 10. Bxc4 e5 11. dxe5 Nxe5 12. Nxe5 Bxe5 13. h3 De7 14. Bd3 Nh5 15. Ne2 Qh4 16. f4 Bc7 17. f5 Ng3 18. Rf3 Nxe4 19. Bf4 Bb6 + 20. Kh2 Nf2 21. Bg3 Ng4 + 22. Kh1 Qh5 23. a4 Ne3 24. Qb1 a5 25.Bf2 Re8 26.Qg1 Bxf5 27.Bxf5 Nxf5 28.g4 Qh6 29.gxf5 Rxe2 30.Bxb6 Tae8 31.Raf1 Rxb2 32.Bd4 Rb4 33.Bxg7 1: 0

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Vyacheslav Wassiljewitsch Ragosin on chessgames.com (English)
• Vyacheslav Wassiljewitsch Ragosin at the International Correspondence Chess Federation ICCF (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ André Schulz : For 110sten birthday of Viacheslav Ragosin In: de.chessbase.com. October 8, 2018, accessed November 19, 2019.