Vladimir Nikolayevich Yurevich

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Vladimir Nikolajewitsch Jurewitsch ( Russian Владимир Николаевич Юревич ; born February 15, 1869 in Saint Petersburg , † October 2, 1907 in Kiev ) was a Russian chess player and journalist .

Life

Yurevich was born into a noble family. His father achieved the rank of Real Councilor of State . He was trained in the page corps in Saint Petersburg, but did not aspire to a military career and turned to literature and journalism. In 1899 he published a volume of poetry Stichotworenija . Among other activities, he headed the chess section in Novosti and Zhivopisnoye obosrenije .

He started chess early and played in Café Dominique from 1888, even in the morning hours before he started work. Although he rarely took part in tournaments, he usually achieved good results. In 1898 he won a tournament (II. And III. Category) in Café Dominique with 6.5 points out of 7, ahead of Sergei Lebedew. In April 1901 he shared fourth place behind Grigori Helbach , Lebedew and Hermann Clemenz in a tournament organized by the Association of Friends of Chess. In September 1903 he played at III. All-Russian championship tournament in Kiev with. In the first round, Yurevich won a game against Mikhail Chigorin , two more wins against Stepan Levitsky and Emanuel Schiffers followed in the next few days. With White he usually played the Bird opening , with Black the Caro-Kann defense . In the final table, he took third place behind Tschigorin and Ossip Bernstein .

The tournament was anything but smooth. In the ninth round Jurewitsch lost after 23 moves against Abram Rabinowitsch. His objection to what he saw as the unfair behavior of Rabinowitsch was unsuccessful. A new incident occurred in the seventeenth round. The member of the Bostanschoglo tournament committee previously awarded a prize of 100 rubles for the most beautiful victory with the white stones in the Spanish game . Yurevich thought his game against Lebedev was worthy of a prize. Chigorin claimed in the commentary in Novoye Vremja, among other things, that the opening of the "brilliant" game was shown to him a few days ago. In a letter to the editor of Novoye Vremya , Yurevich denied all allegations and threatened Chigorin with legal consequences. The prize was ultimately not awarded.

As a journalist, Jurewitsch wrote feature articles and poems in which he sharply attacked the tsarist autocracy and its institutes. Because of his political activities, he was constantly persecuted by the police. He was in Kresty Prison in Saint Petersburg and was summoned for questioning in Moscow . After the revolution of 1905 he became increasingly radicalized. He hardly played chess any more and spoke out against hosting the IV All-Russian Master's Tournament in 1906, as he considered it unsuitable under the circumstances. Yurevich died in Lukyanovskaya Prison in Kiev in October 1907 , after having been sentenced to one year in prison a few months ago.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mikhail Chigorin: Treti vserossijski schachmatny turnir . Moscow, 1904, pp. 148-150.
  2. ↑ British Chess Magazine . Volume XXIV, 1904, pp. 52-53.
personal data
SURNAME Yurevich, Vladimir Nikolayevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Юревич, Владимир Николаевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chess player and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1907
Place of death Kiev