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Pages in category "Chess players from the Russian Empire" The following 82 pages are in this category, out of 82 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This list of Russian chess players lists people from Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Empire who are primarily known as chess players. The majority of these people are chess grandmasters . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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Petrov's Defence or the Petrov Defence (also called Petroff Defence, Petrov's Game, Russian Defence, or Russian Game – Russian: Русская партия) is a chess opening characterised by the following moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6
Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Смысло́в, romanized: Vasíliy Vasíl'yevich Smyslóv; 24 March 1921 – 27 March 2010) [1] was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who was the seventh World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958.
In 2004, at reserve board in the 36th Chess Olympiad in Calvià (+3, =6, -1), In 2006, at third board in the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin (+3, =4, -2). Gennadij Timoscenko played for Slovakia in the European Team Chess Championship: [8] In 1997, at third board in the 11th European Team Chess Championship in Pula (+3, =6, -0) and won individual ...
Emanuel (Emmanuel) Stepanovich Schiffers (Russian: Эммануил Степанович Шифферс; 4 May [O.S. 22 April] 1850 – 12 December [O.S. 29 November] 1904) was a Russian chess player and chess writer. For many years he was the second leading Russian player after Mikhail Chigorin. Schiffers parents emigrated from Germany.
Umansky was born in Stavropol, then USSR and at the age of 16, he tied for first in the USSR junior chess championship. He is considered by some to be the greatest correspondence chess player of all time, since he convincingly won a "champion of champions" tournament, the ICCF 50 Years World Champion Jubilee, a special invitational correspondence tournament involving all living former ICCF ...