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Solomon Gotthilf
S Gotthilf 
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Number of games in database: 102
Years covered: 1921 to 1939
Overall record: +25 -44 =33 (40.7%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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SOLOMON GOTTHILF
(born Feb-21-1903, died Jul-11-1967, 64 years old) Russia

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Solomon Borisovich Gotthilf was awarded the Soviet Master of Sport title in 1925.

Wikipedia article: Solomon Gotthilf

Last updated: 2021-05-24 09:30:28

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 page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 101  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. S Vainshtein vs S Gotthilf ½-½531921Petrograd consumer communeC12 French, McCutcheon
2. I Rabinovich vs S Gotthilf  1-0541922Petrograd championshipC49 Four Knights
3. S Gotthilf vs K Rosenkrantz  1-0681922Match Moscow - LeningradD33 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
4. K Rosenkrantz vs S Gotthilf  0-1661922Match Moscow - LeningradC66 Ruy Lopez
5. S Gotthilf vs P Romanovsky  0-1501923Master Classification MatchC41 Philidor Defense
6. P Romanovsky vs S Gotthilf  0-1491923Master Classification MatchB10 Caro-Kann
7. P Romanovsky vs S Gotthilf  1-0291923Master Classification MatchC68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange
8. P Romanovsky vs S Gotthilf  1-0351923Master Classification MatchC50 Giuoco Piano
9. Levenfish vs S Gotthilf 1-0381924LeningradA47 Queen's Indian
10. A Ilyin-Zhenevsky vs S Gotthilf 1-0181924Leningrad ChC62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense
11. P Komarov vs S Gotthilf  0-1521924Tournament of Cities-AA04 Reti Opening
12. S Gotthilf vs K Vygodchikov  0-1411924Tournament of Cities-AD13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation
13. S Gotthilf vs Bogoljubov  ½-½441925USSR ChampionshipE60 King's Indian Defense
14. A Rabinovich vs S Gotthilf  1-0331925USSR ChampionshipD49 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran
15. P Romanovsky vs S Gotthilf  ½-½531925LeningradC66 Ruy Lopez
16. I Golubev vs S Gotthilf  0-1371925LeningradB18 Caro-Kann, Classical
17. S Gotthilf vs Bogoljubov  ½-½631925LeningradD52 Queen's Gambit Declined
18. S Gotthilf vs A Ilyin-Zhenevsky  1-0391925LeningradA46 Queen's Pawn Game
19. S Gotthilf vs I Rabinovich  1-0531925LeningradD52 Queen's Gambit Declined
20. A Ilyin-Zhenevsky vs S Gotthilf  1-0361925USSR ChampionshipB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
21. V Nenarokov vs S Gotthilf  1-0181925USSR ChampionshipC36 King's Gambit Accepted, Abbazia Defense
22. S Gotthilf vs P Romanovsky  0-1411925MoscowA84 Dutch
23. Gruenfeld vs S Gotthilf ½-½901925MoscowD12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
24. S Gotthilf vs Yates  ½-½351925MoscowE60 King's Indian Defense
25. Rubinstein vs S Gotthilf  1-0291925MoscowD15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
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Kibitzer's Corner
Mar-12-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp: Gotthilf, the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman.
Mar-12-06  vonKrolock: Very few informations about him on-line - besides, the forms with two 'tt' and just one - Gothilf - alternates. <offramp> I'll appreciate to lol, but i dont' 'catch' the pun
Mar-12-06  Resignation Trap: For a photo of Gotthilf, click here: http://www.chesspro.ru/book/rc25.sh... . Scroll down to page 8, his photo is on the far right.
Mar-12-06  EmperorAtahualpa: Or simply click here: http://www.chesspro.ru/pict/rc25-5.... :)
Mar-13-06  Resignation Trap: Here's what I could find on this player.

Born 1903, died in Leningrad in 1967. In the issue of <Shakhmatny Bulletin> which mentioned his death, it was noted that Gotthilf was a key financial worker who was preoccupied with production matters.

In the 4th USSR Championship he scored 11/19 and placed 6th-7th. Later that year, he was a participant in the Moscow 1925 International Tournament where he scored 6.5/20.

Around this same time, he also won a small tournament in Leningrad ahead of the talented Carlos Torre-Repetto .

In the 6th USSR Championship, held in Odessa in February 1929, Gotthilf was in the fourth quarter-final group, but only scored 3/8 and failed to advance.

Gotthilf won a masters tournament in Leningrad in 1930, and was scheduled to play in the 7th USSR Championship final. His name was removed from the list at the last minute for committing "an anti-Bolshevik act." It seems that he requested a separate apartment during the tournament, rather than in a dormitory like the the other finalists.

Mar-13-06  vonKrolock: otchin spassiba, Res and Emp
Oct-03-13  Karpova: <Resignation Trap: Around this same time, he also won a small tournament in Leningrad ahead of the talented Carlos Torre Repetto .>

The tournament took place after the Moscow tournament.

Final standings:

1. Gotthilf 4.0
2-3. Rochlin* 3.0
2-3. Torre 3.0
4. Model 2.0

Gotthilf won both of his games against Torre-Repetto.

From page 29 of the January 1926 'Neue Wiener Schachzeitung'

* Probably Yakov Geraisimovich Rokhlin

Aug-28-15  wrap99: <OffRamp> Your 9-year-old post: What does it mean about perfect woman?

Also, I note this is the same last name of the piano prodigy in the Geoff Rush movie.

Aug-28-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp: <wrap99: <OffRamp> Your 9-year-old post: What does it mean about perfect woman? Also, I note this is the same last name of the piano prodigy in the Geoff Rush movie.>

The name Gotthilf means, in English, God help.

So the full phrase would be,

<G-d help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman...>

And THAT is from the Bible. Could be from Ecclesiates.

Aug-28-15  wrap99: <OR> Thanks.
Aug-28-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <Gotthilf won a masters tournament in Leningrad in 1930, and was scheduled to play in the 7th USSR Championship final. His name was removed from the list at the last minute for committing "an anti-Bolshevik act." It seems that he requested a separate apartment during the tournament, rather than in a dormitory like the the other finalists.>

The dirty wretch; in other circumstances, he may have been charged under Article 58, but he fulfilled a necessary function for the regime.

Feb-21-16  TheFocus: Happy birthday, Solomon Gotthilf.
Jun-20-18  wrap99: I need to revise -- the pianist was HilfGott i think.
Oct-23-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Solomon Gotthilf died at the chessic age of 64, like Robert James Fischer, William Steinitz, Howard Staunton, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Vladimir Savon, Albin Planinc, Vladimir Antoshin, Edmar Mednis, Vitaly Halberstadt, Giulio Cesare Polerio, Octavio Troianescu, Maximilian Ujtelky, Paul Tautvaisas, Claude Frizzel Bloodgood, and Karl Marx.

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