Central house of the chess player

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Central house of the chess player

The Central House of the Chess Player ( Russian Центральный дом шахматиста ) is a chess organization based in Moscow . It was founded in August 1956 at the instigation of Mikhail Botvinnik and Vladimir Alatorzew as the Central Chess Club of the USSR .

history

The newly founded club moved into a building on Gogolewski Boulevard 14 built in the early 19th century, which once belonged to the patron Nadezhda von Meck . The chess department of the State Committee for Physical Culture and Sport of the USSR, the Schachmaty w SSSR editorial office and a chess museum were also housed in its rooms. Today the building houses the Russian Chess Federation and the 64 editorial office.

In the mid-1970s the club had around 1,600 members, including world champions Karpov , Botvinnik , Smyslow and Petrosyan . Grand Master Alexander Kotow acted as council chairman . Numerous tournaments, simultaneous games and other events were held. Around 2500 players took part in the annual correspondence chess tournaments. Every year hundreds of lectures, some of them external, were organized by the club staff.

In 1956 the Moscow Club received the FIDE Congress and in 1961 the ICCF Congress. The club has also made a name for itself as the host of international tournaments that have not only taken place in the capital since 1964. Players who met his standards in the first editions include Ratmir Kholmov (GM), Yevgeny Vasyukov (GM), Vladimir Antozhin (IM and GM), Vladimir Liberson (IM and GM), Vladimir Bagirov , Vlastimil Hort and Leonid Shamkovich (all IM). During his first and only visit to the USSR in 1958, Bobby Fischer played blitz games against leading Soviet chess masters here.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the chess club was renamed. Today he bears the name of the ex-world champion Mikhail Botvinnik. In 2011 a memorial plaque dedicated to him was unveiled on the house.

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