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Georgiy Stepanov (Schneideman)

Number of games in database: 37
Years covered: 1925 to 1941
Overall record: +15 -18 =4 (45.9%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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GEORGIY STEPANOV (SCHNEIDEMAN)
(born 1907, died 1941, 34 years old) Russia

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Georgiy Stepanov (later Shneideman). He was executed by Soviet authorities in 1941 after being falsely turned in as a German spy by a fellow player.

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 page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 37  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. V Kondybin vs G Stepanov (Schneideman)  1-0341925Samara championshipD90 Grunfeld
2. G Stepanov (Schneideman) vs P Romanovsky 0-1211926Leningrad, USSRE23 Nimzo-Indian, Spielmann
3. A Sokolsky vs G Stepanov (Schneideman)  1-0351928Ch Volga RegionA90 Dutch
4. Lisitsin vs G Stepanov (Schneideman)  1-0351929Soviet Physical Culture (team)A04 Reti Opening
5. Botvinnik vs G Stepanov (Schneideman) 1-0341931Leningrad Championship 1930/31D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
6. Ragozin vs G Stepanov (Schneideman)  1-0601931Leningrad Championship 1930/31D37 Queen's Gambit Declined
7. B Vainshtein vs G Stepanov (Schneideman)  1-0401931URS-ch sfE21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights
8. G Stepanov (Schneideman) vs A Ebralidze  0-1511931URS-ch sfD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
9. G Stepanov (Schneideman) vs V Goglidze  ½-½451931URS-ch sfD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
10. I Kan vs G Stepanov (Schneideman) 0-1311931URS-ch sfC11 French
11. L Savitsky vs G Stepanov (Schneideman)  1-028193410th Ch LeningradD21 Queen's Gambit Accepted
12. Alatortsev vs G Stepanov (Schneideman)  0-128193410th Ch LeningradA00 Uncommon Opening
13. G Stepanov (Schneideman) vs A Sokolsky  0-1391936All-Union 1st CategoryA46 Queen's Pawn Game
14. V Silich vs G Stepanov (Schneideman)  1-0301936Trade Unions ChampionshipE48 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d5
15. S Belavenets vs G Stepanov (Schneideman)  1-0401936Trade Unions ChampionshipD55 Queen's Gambit Declined
16. E Zagoryansky vs G Stepanov (Schneideman)  0-1271936Trade Unions ChampionshipD59 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower
17. G Stepanov (Schneideman) vs V Gergenreder  1-0241936Trade Unions ChampionshipD39 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin, Vienna Variation
18. G Stepanov (Schneideman) vs Lilienthal 0-1571936Trade Unions ChampionshipD95 Grunfeld
19. G Stepanov (Schneideman) vs S Pimenov  1-0291936Trade Unions ChampionshipA97 Dutch, Ilyin-Genevsky
20. G Stepanov (Schneideman) vs M Yudovich Sr  0-1291936Trade Unions ChampionshipA31 English, Symmetrical, Benoni Formation
21. A Konstantinopolsky vs G Stepanov (Schneideman)  1-0251936Trade Unions ChampionshipB18 Caro-Kann, Classical
22. G Stepanov (Schneideman) vs S Bezrukov  1-0261937Ch Trade Unions (1/2 Final)D26 Queen's Gambit Accepted
23. G Stepanov (Schneideman) vs A Polyak  1-0201937Leningrad - MoscowC07 French, Tarrasch
24. Dmitrievsky vs G Stepanov (Schneideman)  0-128193712th Ch Leningrad sf group 8E83 King's Indian, Samisch
25. V Chekhover vs G Stepanov (Schneideman)  1-0301938Ch Trade Unions (team sf)E00 Queen's Pawn Game
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Kibitzer's Corner
Mar-11-06  Benzol: Anyone know if this is Georgy Schneiderman-Stepanov?

If so he perished in 1941, a victim of the "Terror" and his surname and because of a jealous chess rival.

Jul-29-09  walker: I don't have a clue. Most of the posters here are leftists and I don't believe anyone from the former CCCP will give us an answer.
Sep-01-14  Benzol: IF the player linked in the bio above is the same player then this gamesfile and Shneideman should be merged.
May-25-15
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  MissScarlett: <With the Germans soon at the gates, Leningraders with German-sounding surnames had become a suspect class. It did not help that Shneideman shared his name with a prominent Nazi general. He was soon denounced as a spy and arrested in the autumn of 1941. Before he was shot, Shneideman managed to get a message back to his friends in Leningrad. He denied any wrongdoing, and named the author of his undoing: Petr Romanovskii. During his interrogation, Schneideman had caught a glimpse of the name on the denunciation, and he immediately recognized the distinctive signature from the many times he had seen it written on a chess score sheet.>

<Storming Fortresses: A Political History of Chess in the Soviet Union, 1917-1948> by Michael A. Hudson (September 2013).

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Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky

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