Vladimir Pavlovich Sagorovsky

Vladimir Pavlovich Sagorovsky

Vladimir Zagorovsky ( Russian Владимир Павлович Загоровский ., Scientific transcription Vladimir Pavlovič Zagorovskij * 29. June 1925 in Voronezh , † 6. November 1994 ) was a Russian historian , correspondence chess - Grand Master and the fourth correspondence chess world champion (1965 to 1968).

Life

Sagorowski, a doctorate in history, taught at the University of Voronezh story and published in the Soviet Union a number of writings on Russian history. He was particularly concerned with the history of his hometown Voronezh.

In his free time he was a passionate chess player . He learned the rules at the age of six. Although he had a number of good successes in close-range chess in the 1950s during his student days in Moscow (in 1952 he won the Moscow championship), he felt more called to be a historian.

Correspondence chess

His work at the university left him little time for tournaments, but he discovered correspondence chess in the early 1950s , to which he remained faithful until his death. He won the 4th World Correspondence Chess Championship, which was played from 1962 to 1965.

Sagorowski took part in six world championships. At the 6th World Cup in 1971 he was runner- up behind Horst Rittner , and also at the 8th World Cup in 1980 behind the Dane Jørn Sloth ; with the same number of points, Sloth had the better rating.

At the 5th World Championships he was ranked 4–5, at the 7th World Championship place 3–4, at the 11th World Championship place 5.

official

Since 1975 he has worked as Vice President of the World Correspondence Chess Federation ICCF .

His best historical rating in close-range chess was 2,614, which he achieved in November 1953.

literature

• Anatoli Karpow et al .: Chess - encyclopedic dictionary , Sowjetskaja enzyklopedija, Moscow 1990, ISBN 5-85270-005-3 , p. 121 (Russian)

Web links

• Playable chess games by Vladimir Pawlowitsch Sagorowski on chessgames.com (English)
• Wladimir Pawlowitsch Sagorowski at the International Correspondence Chess Federation ICCF (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wladimir Sagorowski on chessmetrics.com (English)