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Yakov Rokhlin
Y Rokhlin 
Rokhlin on right , with Botvinnik and Smyslov  

Number of games in database: 71
Years covered: 1924 to 1965
Overall record: +22 -34 =15 (41.5%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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YAKOV ROKHLIN
(born Jan-27-1903, died Jul-30-1996, 93 years old) Russia
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Yakov Gerasimovich Rokhlin was an International Correspondence Master (1967) and an International Arbiter since 1956.

Last updated: 2024-08-15 07:55:57

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 page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 71  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Y Rokhlin vs B Rivlin  1-0401924Leningrad 1st catD63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense
2. Y Rokhlin vs D M Gorfinkel  1-0301924Leningrad 1st catA04 Reti Opening
3. Y Rokhlin vs A Kuris  1-0441924Tournament of Cities (sf) B-2-1E60 King's Indian Defense
4. Y Rokhlin vs Lasker  1-0441924Simul, 20bE12 Queen's Indian
5. A Ilyin-Zhenevsky vs Y Rokhlin  1-0411925LeningradB32 Sicilian
6. Y Rokhlin vs Levenfish  0-1321925Leningrad-chA12 English with b3
7. Y Rokhlin vs V Yuriev  1-0371925Leningrad National tournamentA15 English
8. Bogoljubov vs Y Rokhlin  1-0411925LeningradA53 Old Indian
9. Y Rokhlin vs P Romanovsky  0-1311925LeningradE07 Catalan, Closed
10. Y Rokhlin vs S Gotthilf  1-0401925Leningrad InternationalD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
11. Y Rokhlin vs Torre  ½-½381925Leningrad InternationalD02 Queen's Pawn Game
12. Torre vs Y Rokhlin  ½-½371925Leningrad InternationalA46 Queen's Pawn Game
13. V Chekhover vs Y Rokhlin  1-0251926Ch Trade UnionD63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense
14. Y Rokhlin vs Botvinnik 0-1521926Leningrad ChampionshipD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
15. Y Rokhlin vs I Golubev  1-0301926Leningrad ChampionshipB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
16. H Ljunggren vs Y Rokhlin  1-0661926Stockholm - LeningradE12 Queen's Indian
17. Y Rokhlin vs H Ljunggren  ½-½361926Stockholm - LeningradD67 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line
18. S Nemlikher vs Y Rokhlin  0-1251926Leningrad-Moscow Trade UnionsD33 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
19. S Gotthilf vs Y Rokhlin  1-0371927Gotthilf-Rokhlin MatchA46 Queen's Pawn Game
20. Botvinnik vs Y Rokhlin 1-0281927LeningradA70 Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3
21. P Romanovsky vs Y Rokhlin 1-0291927USSR ChampionshipB25 Sicilian, Closed
22. Y Rokhlin vs A Ilyin-Zhenevsky  0-1341927USSR ChampionshipB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
23. N Pavlov-Pianov vs Y Rokhlin  1-0311927USSR ChampionshipD43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
24. Y Rokhlin vs S von Freymann  1-0531927USSR ChampionshipD18 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch
25. A Ilyin-Zhenevsky vs Y Rokhlin  1-0411928Leningrad-chB23 Sicilian, Closed
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Kibitzer's Corner
Jan-13-05  kostich in time: Therre seems to have been an extremely long hiatus in Rokhlins career..where was he..the Gulag?
Jul-10-06  Karpova: http://www.cannes-echecs.org/filead...

Russian master Yakov Rokhlin was born on 27th January 1905. He played in two Soviet championships (1927 and 1929), but was more known as a prolific chess author and energetic chess organiser and coach. Rokhlin became an International Arbiter in 1956. He was also an International Master at correspondence chess (1967).

Dec-18-11  Resignation Trap: Gaige gives his patronymic name as <Gerasimovich>.
Dec-18-11  King Death: So his father had the first name Gerasimov?
Oct-30-12  stanleys: Rokhlin with Botvinnik and Smyslov during the Moscow's Interzonal/1982

http://chesspro.ru/_images/gal/all_...

Oct-30-12  stanleys: Polugaevsky, Iosif Vatnikov, Smyslov, Najdorf, Botvinnik and Rokhlin

http://chesspro.ru/_images/gal/all_...

Dec-13-12
Premium Chessgames Member		  GrahamClayton: Here is Rokhlin turning the tables in a spectacular way against Vladislav Silich in 1929:


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1.♖f8+ ♔h7 2.♗e4+


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2...♕f5! and White resigned, due to either 3. ♖xf5 ♖xh4# or 3. ♗xc6 ♕xh3#.

Dec-14-12
Premium Chessgames Member		  Phony Benoni: <GrahamClayton> I remember this from the introduction to USSR Championship (1929). White could have won with the equally spectacular <2.Qe4+!>.

Oh, why can't we have the full game score?

Dec-16-12
Premium Chessgames Member		  GrahamClayton: <Phony Benoni>Oh, why can't we have the full game score?

<PhonyBenoni>,
The position was highlighted in a tactics book that I have, which didn't have the full score.

Dec-16-12
Premium Chessgames Member		  Phony Benoni: <Graham Clayton> I found it in a online series of reports on the USSR Championships, but no score either.
Jun-23-18  goser: http://ruchess.ru/persons_of_day/ya... This is his bio from the official site of Russian Chess Federation.
Sep-29-19  BUNA: Yakov Rokhlin was born in 1903. A russian site has a picture of his gravestone with the dates 1903 - 1996. > http://sport-strana.ru/roxlin-yakov...

Rokhlin beat Lasker in a simul game in february of 1924 when Lasker for the first time visited the Soviet Union (Leningrad). Here is the notation taken from Rokhlins "Book about Chess" (Moscow 1975).

[Event "Simultan Leningrad"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1924.02.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Rokhlin, Yakov"]
[Black "Lasker, Emanuel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E12"]
[PlyCount "87"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. Nc3 Bb7 5. Bg5 Be7 6. g3 O-O 7. Bg2 h6 8. Bxf6 Bxf6 9. O-O Nc6 10. e4 d6 11. Rc1 e5 12. d5 Ne7 13. Ne1 Ng6 14. Nd3 Bc8 15. Qh5 Re8 16. Kh1 Bd7 17. Ne2 Qc8 18. h3 Qa6 19. a3 Rac8 20. f4 c6 21. f5 Nf8 22. Nb4 Qb7 23. h4 cxd5 24. Nxd5 Nh7 25. Bf3 b5 26. Rg1 Rxc4 27. Rxc4 bxc4 28. g4 Bxh4 29. Qxh4 Ng5 30. Qg3 Qxb2 31. Nec3 f6 32. a4 Bc6 33. Bg2 Bxd5 34. exd5 e4 35. Qe3 Qc2 36. Re1 Re5 37. Re2 Qd3 38. Bxe4 Qxe3 39. Rxe3 h5 40. gxh5 Kh7 41. Kg2 Kh6 42. Re2 Kxh5 43. Bb1 Kg4 44. Rxe5 1-0

Although being only 8 years older Rokhlin was the first mentor of Botvinnik. He convinced Capablanca to travel to Leningrad to give a simul in 1925 and he made sure that the 14 years old Botvinnik could play against the champion. He also fought for Botvinnik's inclusion in the 1927 soviet championship.

He is said to have invented the Lenin quote "Chess is the gymnastics of the mind" to pressure unwilling officials for support.

And he devised some of the earliest soviet chess training courses. (Yusupovs "Boost your chess" book series is basically a modernized version of these soviet training courses.)

So Rokhlin is one of the earliest organizers of what came to be known as the "soviet chess school".

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