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P Romanovsky 
 
Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky
Number of games in database: 202
Years covered: 1909 to 1963
Overall record: +79 -66 =56 (53.2%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      1 exhibition game, odds game, etc. is excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Ruy Lopez (24) 
    C88 C68 C79 C64 C90
 Sicilian (13) 
    B58 B30 B23 B88 B80
 Reti System (12) 
    A06 A04
 Ruy Lopez, Closed (10) 
    C88 C90 C84 C91
 French Defense (7) 
    C14 C15 C16 C12 C07
 Caro-Kann (6) 
    B12 B18 B15 B16 B13
With the Black pieces:
 Nimzo Indian (18) 
    E33 E34 E23 E22 E51
 Ruy Lopez (18) 
    C66 C65 C64 C63 C87
 Queen's Gambit Declined (9) 
    D37 D30 D38 D35
 Queen's Indian (6) 
    E15 E17 E12 E19
 English (6) 
    A15 A12 A14
 Queen's Pawn Game (6) 
    A46 A40
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   P Romanovsky vs A A Smorodsky, 1924 1-0
   P Romanovsky vs I Rabinovich, 1935 1-0
   P Romanovsky vs N Grigoriev, 1924 1-0
   Ragozin vs P Romanovsky, 1927 0-1
   P Romanovsky vs I Rabinovich, 1925 1-0
   P Romanovsky vs Stahlberg, 1935 1-0
   A A Smorodsky vs P Romanovsky, 1927 0-1

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   USSR Championship 1927 by Phony Benoni
   USSR Championship 1925 by Phony Benoni
   USSR Championship 1924 by Phony Benoni
   USSR Championship 1923 by Phony Benoni
   USSR Championship 1920 by Phony Benoni

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PETER ARSENIEVICH ROMANOVSKY
(born Jul-29-1892, died Mar-01-1964) Russia

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Peter Arsenyevich Romanovsky was born on the 29th of July 1892 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Awarded the IM title in 1950 and an International Arbiter in 1951, he was USSR Champion in 1923 and 1927 (jointly) as well as Leningrad Champion in 1925 (jointly). His best international result was in Leningrad 1934, finshing 2nd= with Nikolai Nikolaevich Riumin behind Mikhail Botvinnik. Around this period he began to devote more time to teaching, writing and publishing about the game. In 1934 he became the first Soviet chess player to be awarded the title of Honoured Master of Sport. Both of his brothers Yevgeny and Alexander Arsenievich Romanovsky also played chess. He passed away in Moscow in 1964.

 page 1 of 9; games 1-25 of 202  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. P A Evtifeev vs P Romanovsky  0-160 1909 All RussianC22 Center Game
2. P Romanovsky vs S F Lebedev  0-137 1909 All RussianD07 Queen's Gambit Declined, Chigorin Defense
3. S Izbinsky vs P Romanovsky  1-063 1909 All RussianC84 Ruy Lopez, Closed
4. Viakhirev vs P Romanovsky  0-143 1909 St PetersburgC26 Vienna
5. G Helbach vs P Romanovsky  ½-½28 1909 All RussianC66 Ruy Lopez
6. P Romanovsky vs M Elyashov  ½-½49 1909 All RussianD51 Queen's Gambit Declined
7. Lasker vs P Romanovsky 0-134 1909 Riga simC30 King's Gambit Declined
8. P Romanovsky vs Rotlewi  0-130 1909 All RussianD02 Queen's Pawn Game
9. D Daniuszewski vs P Romanovsky  1-059 1909 All RussianD11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
10. Alekhine vs P Romanovsky 0-141 1909 St Petersburg nt (10)C26 Vienna
11. P Romanovsky vs A Chepurnov  0-124 1909 All RussianB01 Scandinavian
12. P Romanovsky vs Verlinsky  0-152 1909 All RussianC49 Four Knights
13. Ilyin-Zhenevsky vs P Romanovsky 0-141 1919 MoscowC67 Ruy Lopez
14. N Zubarev vs P Romanovsky  0-137 1920 URS-ch01C48 Four Knights
15. P Romanovsky vs A Mund  1-027 1920 URS-ch01B12 Caro-Kann Defense
16. N Pavlov Pianov vs P Romanovsky  1-060 1920 URS-ch01D37 Queen's Gambit Declined
17. P Romanovsky vs A Rabinovich  1-029 1920 URS-ch01C56 Two Knights
18. P Romanovsky vs Levenfish 1-042 1920 URS-ch01B16 Caro-Kann, Bronstein-Larsen Variation
19. N Tselikov vs P Romanovsky  0-132 1920 URS-ch01D63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense
20. P Romanovsky vs Levenfish  1-039 1921 PetrogradB23 Sicilian, Closed
21. P Romanovsky vs Ilyin-Zhenevsky 1-035 1921 PetrogradC41 Philidor Defense
22. Levenfish vs P Romanovsky  1-038 1922 Ch LeningradC66 Ruy Lopez
23. S F Lebedev vs P Romanovsky  0-150 1923 URS-ch02C45 Scotch Game
24. I Rabinovich vs P Romanovsky  0-146 1923 URS-ch02D37 Queen's Gambit Declined
25. P Romanovsky vs Levenfish  0-143 1923 URS-ch02C50 Giuoco Piano
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Kibitzer's Corner
Jun-16-04   offramp: Guess who Romanovsky thought was the best chess player of all time? The answer is here: http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hans4...
Jul-20-04
Premium Chessgames Member
  Gypsy: It seems that Romanovsky's IGM title was sacrificed once in order to block Fedor Bohatirchuk from also getting the title http://members.lycos.co.uk/csarchiv... Romanovsky was a Soviet 1927 co-champion!
Jan-02-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  Benzol: Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky
Born 29th July 1892 in St Petersburg
Died 1st March 1964 in Moscow
Awarded the IM title in 1950 he was joint Leningrad champion in 1925 and USSR champion in 1923 and 1927 (jointly).
Nov-30-05   Eatman: He had a really terrible misfortune in personal life. His wife passed away in 1934 when giving birth to fourth daughter.

ALL four daughters (ages 8 to low teens) passed away within a month in Leningrad blockade in 1942. He himself barely survived.

Nov-30-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  Resignation Trap: <Eatman> Right!

He subsisted on "soup" made from potato peels, and his dacha on Krestovsky Island had no furniture, for he had used it for firewood.

He had lost consciousness, and his rescuers had put him on an easbound train. Vladimir Alatortsev found him on a train in Alexandrov. He was on the verge of death, but Alatortsev was able to get him into a local hospital. Four days later Romanovsky regained consciousness and slowly recovered. A few months later he was transferred to a government sanitorium in Ivanovo. There was a tournament at Ivanovo, which Romanovsky won easily 10-0.

Also at Ivanovo he met the woman who later became his second wife, and he began his second family of children.

Jul-29-06   BIDMONFA: Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky

ROMANOVSKY, Pyotr A.
http://www.bidmonfa.com/romanovsky_...
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Oct-25-06   Bufon: <You youngsters fear losing too much. Because of that, at some moment you'll lose the habit of winning>

--- Romanovsky ---

Nice quote.

Dec-10-06   ivanov90: Romanovsky was strongest USSR chessplayer in 1925-1930 years.
Dec-10-06   ivanov90: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_...
Apr-19-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  percyblakeney: Some of Romanovsky's results from the 1920's:

Soviet Championships 1920: 2nd after Alekhine: http://members.aol.com/graemecree/c...

Soviet Championships 1923: 1st: http://members.aol.com/graemecree/c...

Moscow 1925: Shared 7th, even with Reti: http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scac...

Soviet Championships 1927: Shared 1st with Bohatirchuk: http://members.aol.com/graemecree/c...

Romanovsky had some good results also in the 1930's. In Leningrad 1934 he was far ahead of Euwe, that would become World Champion the next year, behind only Botvinnik (with ½ point). He also drew Capablanca and Lasker in Moscow 1935, where he had a plus score in a strong field.

Romanovsky won against Lasker (simul), Alekhine and Botvinnik, while his games against Capablanca were drawn.

Jun-23-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  notyetagm: Does anyone have <PGN> for this game, <Stepanov-Romanovskij, Leningrad 1926>?

The incredible tactical finish is so -INSTRUCTIVE- that it is given as the only example on the Wikipedia page for the topic <Combination (chess)>: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combin....

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< The position below begins a combination which illustrates several forks and skewers.

Stepanov-Romanovskij, Leningrad 1926.

Black to play.

Black played 1... Rxf3+! White dare not take the rook with 2.Kxf3 because of the royal fork 2... Nd4+, which would win the white queen. Retreating with 2.Ke2 instead would run into the same fork. The move 2.Kd2 looks more promising, but after 2...Rf2+ (skewering the white king and queen) 3.Be2 Rxe2+ 4.Kxe2 Nd4+ the white queen will be lost anyway. Therefore White was forced to play 2.Ke4.

After 2...d5+!, White resigned. White still could not take the black rook without losing his queen, but the alternative 3.cxd5 exd5+ 4. Kxd5 Be6+ would leave White with no good defense. Taking the bishop with 5.Kxe6 allows the long-threatened fork 5...Nd4+, while taking the knight with 5.Kxc6 allows the skewer 5...Rc8+ followed by 6...Rxc2. Retreating with 5.Ke4 permits the black bishop to skewer the white king and queen with 5...Bf5+, so White has only one option left: 5.Kd6.

After 5.Kd6, Black would have played 5... Rd8+. White couldn't take the bishop or the knight for exactly the same reasons as before (after 6.Kxe6 Nd4+ 7. Ke7, Black comes out a rook ahead with 7... Nxc2 8.Kxd8 Nxa1), which leaves one legal move, namely 6.Kc7, but then 6... Rf7+ absolutely forces the white king to take the black knight, allowing the skewer 7... Rc8+ followed by 8...Rxc2.>

Aug-27-08   ravel5184: Please!
Aug-28-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  Benzol: <notyetagm> <ravel5184>

I have submitted the game into the DB but if you can't wait until it appears here is the gamescore.

White: G. Stepanov

Black: P. A. Romanovsky

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qb3 c5 5.Nf3 Ne4 6.dxc5 Nc6 7.Bd2 Nxc5 8.Qc2 f5 9.a3 Bxc3 10.Bxc3 0-0 11.b4 Ne4 12.Bb2 b6 13.g4 Nxf2 14.Kxf2 fxg4 15.Rg1 Qh4+ 16.Ke3 Qh6+ 17.Kd3 gxf3 18.Rxg7+ Qxg7 19.Bxg7 Kxg7 20.exf3 Rxf3+ 21.Ke4 d5+ 0-1.

Aug-28-08   ravel5184: Thank you sooo much!!!
Jul-29-09   WhiteRook48: with 4 Qb3 going crazy
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