Dec-22-04
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| Benzol: Sergey Vsevolodovich Belavenets
Born 1910 in Russia?
Died 7th March 1942 in Novgorod
He was joint Moscow champion in 1932, 1937 and 1938. |
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Jul-28-05
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| Gypsy: < This game [ S Belavenets vs Bronstein, 1941 ] with Sergey Belavets -- one of the most talented Soviet players and a wonderful man -- I give with a heavy heart. At the very time when the participants in the Rostov Semifinal of the USSR Championship were sitting at the board and considering their moves, on the Western boarders of our State the German soldier were awaiting the order to invade. And it followed very soon... That was cost many more lives than are reccorded in the history books. My partner never again returned to the chess board. He perished in battle in the first year of the War. > Bronstein on the King's Indian. < ... In my opinion, that evening White was thinking about something more important than a game of chess....The descriptions of this game stirred in my memory some personal recollections of those distant years. In the Ukrainian Championship of 1940 I finished second, achieved a master norm, and should have become the youngest (at the time) chess master in the USSR. But the procedure for awarding titles was not then a formality. The Supreme Qualification Commision headed by Belavenets (his deputy was Smyslov) made a serious study of my games and came to a positive decision. And here, as Segey Belavets sat with his head in his hands, surveying his wrecked position, he sudenly exclaimed: 'Yes, we were right to award you the master title!', and he stopped the clocks. > |
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| Nov-14-05 |
| paladin at large: <Gypsy> Many thanks for the anecdote. Kotov also wrote fondly of Belavenets and had high regard for his ending play: "Ever since then (watching Capablanca play in 1936 in Moscow), I have watched carefully how the great endgame players play, or rather, regard the ending. I gained a great deal from my friendship with Sergei Belavenets, who just before the war wrote with me a study of the middle game and ending which was subsequently lost in transcript. I saw how Belavenets always thought in the ending in terms of schemes, in terms of the layout of one's forces........As soon as the ending is reached you should forget about tactics. A new phase of the game is starting and it is quite different from the previous one. Here you have to think of schemes and deal in terms of cool, calm analysis." 'I advise every player, if he has enough time left on his clock, to spend a few minutes calming his nerves after the excitement of the middle game' writes Belavenets. 'This slight expenditure of time will be recouped later on when the player thinks about the ending in the right way.''" |
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Nov-12-06
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| pawn to QB4: Remembrance Sunday here in Britain and many other countries. Best regards to family of Sergei Belavenets, chess master, engineer, war hero; as to all remembering those we lost. |
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Apr-08-07
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| vonKrolock: His uncle K Vygodchikov teached him the basic rules when he was seven. At fourteen, he won the championship of Bielo-Russia (Belarus) - an achievement that include him in the class of the prodigies. One year later, he visited the International Tournament in Moscow, playing the simuls of Lasker, Reti and Torre with good results. Living in Smolensk (I can not assert in moment if this was his native city) until 1930, and then, in Moscow as Engineering student (he specialized in Agricultural Electrification). Sixth in USSR ch 1937 and Third in 1939. Prolific writer of articles (Analisis of Games, Openings, Endgames Theory etc) |
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Aug-25-07
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| whiteshark: One Picture:
http://chesspro.ru/_images/material... |
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| Oct-05-07 |
| Antiochus: The best and most important(theorically) win of Belavenets, tragically, is the last.Downloadable in chesslab: [Event "?"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "1941.??.??"]
[White "Zagorjansky"]
[Black "Belavenets"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E49"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3
d5 6. a3 Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 c5 8. Nf3 Nc6 9. O-O
dxc4 10. Bxc4 Qc7 11. Qe2 e5 12. d5 Na5 13. e4
Nxc4 14. Qxc4 b5 15. Qxb5 Nxe4 16. Qe2 Nf6 17. c4
e4 18. Nd2 Qe5 19. Rb1 Ng4 20. f4 Qd4+ 21. Kh1
e3 22. Nb3 Qe4 23. Ra1 Rb8 24. Na5 Nf2+ 25. Kg1
Bh3 26. Rxf2 exf2+ 27. Qxf2 Bxg2 28. Nc6 Rbe8 29. Bb2
Bf3 30. Ne5 Bh5 31. Nd7 Qf5 32. Nxf8 Re2 33. Qh4
Rxb2 34. Nd7 f6 35. Nxc5 Bf3 36. Kf1 Qc2 37. Qg3
Qxc4+ 0-1 |
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