Veniamin Sozin
Number of games in database: 47
Years covered: 1924 to 1939
Overall record: +19 -18 =10 (51.1%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (5)      B88 B29 B80	With the Black pieces:  Queen's Pawn Game (5)      A46 D05 D04 A45  Ruy Lopez (5)      C68 C83 C77 C80

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Nenarokov vs V Sozin, 1925 0-1
   Botvinnik vs V Sozin, 1929 1/2-1/2
   A Sergeiev vs V Sozin, 1924 0-1
   V Sozin vs Nekrasov, 1931 1-0

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

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VENIAMIN SOZIN (born 1896, died 1956) Russia [what is this?] Veniamin Innokentevich Sozin was born in 1896 in Russia. He specialized in openings and around 1930 advocated a variation of the Sicilian (B20) Defence first analyzed by Paul Saladin Leonhardt before the First World War and later made popular by Robert James Fischer in the 1950's and 60's.

page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 47  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Levenfish vs V Sozin   1-0 58 1924 USSR Championship A45 Queen's Pawn Game 2. Bogoljubov vs V Sozin ½-½ 62 1924 USSR Championship C33 King's Gambit Accepted 3. A Sergeiev vs V Sozin 0-1 17 1924 USSR Championship A20 English 4. V Sozin vs P Romanovsky 1-0 46 1924 USSR Championship C49 Four Knights 5. Ilyin-Zhenevsky vs V Sozin   ½-½ 45 1924 USSR Championship C77 Ruy Lopez 6. S Rozental vs V Sozin   0-1 58 1924 USSR Championship C80 Ruy Lopez, Open 7. V Sozin vs S Von Freymann 1-0 27 1924 USSR Championship C78 Ruy Lopez 8. A Selezniev vs V Sozin   ½-½ 40 1924 USSR Championship A55 Old Indian, Main line 9. N Grigoriev vs V Sozin   1-0 57 1924 USSR Championship C68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange 10. V Sozin vs A Rabinovich   1-0 34 1924 USSR Championship C55 Two Knights Defense 11. Nenarokov vs V Sozin 0-1 30 1925 USSR Championship C33 King's Gambit Accepted 12. Verlinsky vs V Sozin   1-0 25 1925 USSR Championship D33 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 13. A Kaspersky vs V Sozin   0-1 32 1925 USSR Championship D33 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 14. N Grigoriev vs V Sozin 1-0 50 1925 USSR Championship C68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange 15. V Sozin vs Y Vilner   1-0 41 1925 USSR Championship E76 King's Indian, Four Pawns Attack 16. V Sozin vs N Kutuzov   1-0 50 1925 USSR Championship E76 King's Indian, Four Pawns Attack 17. V Sozin vs P Romanovsky 0-1 25 1925 USSR Championship D85 Grunfeld 18. V Sozin vs A Kubbel   ½-½ 37 1925 USSR Championship D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 19. A Bernstein vs V Sozin   0-1 26 1929 USSR Championship C33 King's Gambit Accepted 20. Botvinnik vs V Sozin ½-½ 63 1929 Krechevitsa-Novgorod D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 21. V Sozin vs F Bohatirchuk   0-1 90 1931 USSR Championship C46 Three Knights 22. Lisitsin vs V Sozin   1-0 33 1931 USSR Championship A06 Reti Opening 23. V Sozin vs Kasparian   ½-½ 53 1931 USSR Championship E90 King's Indian 24. Zamikhovsky vs V Sozin 1-0 23 1931 USSR Championship D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 25. A Kaspersky vs V Sozin   0-1 39 1931 Ch URS (1/2 final) E11 Bogo-Indian Defense  page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 47

Jan-21-05    lopium: Is it the one who invent the Fischer-Sozin Attack ? With Fischer? Or someone know more about him? Jan-26-05    Alaric: I think it was Sozin who created it, and Fischer who made it popular! Oct-17-06    piroflip: amusing though, that a game played twelve years before Bobby was born has an opening named after him. Jun-04-07    timhortons: id go over the games and there was no game ever won by sozin on sicilian sozin attack....fischer did polish it....castling on queenside and his sac on castled black h file...his notable games was played as black piece player...seems he was not successfull with the attack attributed to him Aug-11-09    WhiteRook48: the other inventor of the Fischer Attack Aug-23-09    whiteshark: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weniam... (in German) Picture taken during 4th Soviet Championship in 1925: http://www.mark-weeks.com/cfaa/cfa-... (Sozin is in the back row, 2nd to left (Source: http://chessforallages.blogspot.com...

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