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Ilya Rabinovich
I Rabinovich 
 

Number of games in database: 321
Years covered: 1912 to 1941
Overall record: +121 -103 =96 (52.8%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 1 exhibition game, blitz/rapid, odds game, etc. is excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 French Defense (16) 
    C07 C02 C01 C11 C18
 Queen's Pawn Game (13) 
    A46 D02 D05 A40 A50
 Ruy Lopez (12) 
    C68 C82 C99 C78 C79
 Sicilian (10) 
    B72 B58 B80 B84 B74
 Queen's Gambit Declined (9) 
    D30 D38 D31 D37
 Slav (9) 
    D11 D12 D16 D19 D15
With the Black pieces:
 Ruy Lopez (28) 
    C66 C75 C71 C72 C68
 Orthodox Defense (16) 
    D55 D61 D68 D52 D60
 Queen's Pawn Game (12) 
    D02 A45 D05 A50 D00
 Slav (12) 
    D11 D19 D17 D10 D18
 Sicilian (10) 
    B50 B20 B88 B83 B58
 English (8) 
    A15 A12 A14 A13
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   I Rabinovich vs V Goglidze, 1939 1-0
   I Rabinovich vs L Savitsky, 1934 1-0
   S Belavenets vs I Rabinovich, 1934 0-1
   I Rabinovich vs Bogoljubov, 1925 1-0
   I Rabinovich vs S Rosselli del Turco, 1925 1-0
   I Rabinovich vs Ilyin-Zhenevsky, 1932 1-0
   Botvinnik vs I Rabinovich, 1926 1/2-1/2
   I Rabinovich vs V Makogonov, 1939 1/2-1/2
   L Kubbel vs I Rabinovich, 1922 0-1
   F Duz-Khotimirsky vs I Rabinovich, 1924 0-1

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   USSR Championship 1934/35 (1934)
   USSR Championship (1933)
   Leningrad (1934)
   USSR Championship (1924)
   Leningrad Championship (1936)
   Baden-Baden (1925)
   Leningrad / Moscow training (1939)
   USSR Championship (1925)
   Leningrad Championship (1932)
   USSR Championship (1937)
   USSR Championship (1927)
   USSR Championship (1939)
   Moscow (1935)
   Moscow (1925)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   0ZeR0's Favorite Games Volume 114 by 0ZeR0
   USSR Championship 1933 by Phony Benoni
   Leningrad 1934 by Phony Benoni
   USSR Championship 1924 by Phony Benoni


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ILYA RABINOVICH
(born May-11-1891, died Apr-23-1942, 50 years old) Russia

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Ilya Leontievich (aka Elias) Rabinovich was born in St. Petersburg. Joint USSR Champion in 1934, he also won the Leningrad Championship in 1920, 1925 (joint), 1928 and 1940-41.

Rabinovich played in nine USSR Championships during the period 1920-1939, sharing the title with Grigory Levenfish in 1934/5 [rusbase-1].

In 1927, he published the first original book in the Russian language devoted to the endgame. Rabinovich was primarily a positional player.

He perished from malnutrition in the siege of Leningrad in 1942.

Wikipedia article: Ilya Rabinovich

Last updated: 2022-09-12 23:50:23

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 page 1 of 13; games 1-25 of 321  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. I Rabinovich vs S Globus  1-0261912All Russian Amateur-BA84 Dutch
2. K Raush vs I Rabinovich 1-0261912All Russian Amateur-BD31 Queen's Gambit Declined
3. I Rabinovich vs Hromadka  ½-½491912All Russian Amateur-BB01 Scandinavian
4. L Estrin vs I Rabinovich  ½-½361912All Russian Amateur-BC66 Ruy Lopez
5. P List vs I Rabinovich  1-0361912All Russian Amateur-BD46 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
6. I Rabinovich vs S Vainshtein 1-0171914Triberg 1415C33 King's Gambit Accepted
7. I Rabinovich vs A Selezniev 1-0261914Triberg 1415C10 French
8. I Rabinovich vs S Vainshtein  1-0471914Triberg 1415D33 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
9. I Rabinovich vs Flamberg 0-1311914Triberg 1415C53 Giuoco Piano
10. I Rabinovich vs A Selezniev 1-0241914Triberg 1415B17 Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation
11. I Rabinovich vs A Selezniev 1-0311914Triberg 1415C28 Vienna Game
12. Alekhine vs I Rabinovich 0-1491914Exhibition gameC66 Ruy Lopez
13. Bogoljubov vs I Rabinovich 1-03719141st Tournament of Interned Russian PlayersC66 Ruy Lopez
14. I Rabinovich vs Bogoljubov 0-13219141st Tournament of Interned Russian PlayersC33 King's Gambit Accepted
15. Bogoljubov vs I Rabinovich  1-0351915TribergD40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch
16. I Rabinovich vs Flamberg  1-04719153rd Triberg interned Russians tC28 Vienna Game
17. I Rabinovich vs H Fahrni 1-0501916TribergD31 Queen's Gambit Declined
18. I Rabinovich vs B Maliutin  1-0351916TribergD33 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
19. Bogoljubov vs I Rabinovich 1-0311917TribergE21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights
20. I Rabinovich vs A Selezniev 0-1261917Triberg tournamentE41 Nimzo-Indian
21. A Kubbel vs I Rabinovich  1-0621920USSR ChampionshipC49 Four Knights
22. I Rabinovich vs N Pavlov-Pianov  1-0551920USSR ChampionshipB16 Caro-Kann, Bronstein-Larsen Variation
23. I Rabinovich vs Alekhine 0-1391920USSR ChampionshipE43 Nimzo-Indian, Fischer Variation
24. S Vainshtein vs I Rabinovich  0-1391921National tournamentA47 Queen's Indian
25. A Ilyin-Zhenevsky vs I Rabinovich  0-1531921National tournamentC65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense
 page 1 of 13; games 1-25 of 321  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Apr-20-06  BIDMONFA: Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich

RABINOVICH, Ilya L.
http://www.bidmonfa.com/rabinovich....
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Apr-20-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp: I like this bit in the bio: "Primarily a positional player he perished in the siege of Leningrad in 1942."

Did the tactical players survive?

Apr-20-06  dbquintillion: <offramp> good question. you'd think that a long, slow squeeze like the siege of leningrad would be precisely the sort of thing a positional player would be prepared for. perhaps the tactical players sacced some of their colleagues to maneuver their way out.
Apr-20-06  MR. NIMZO: Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich beat George Salwe 3 to 0
Apr-20-06  MR. NIMZO: Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich -- NOTABLE GAMES:

Rubinstein vs I Rabinovich, 1925 0-1

Alekhine vs I Rabinovich, 1914 0-1

Botvinnik vs I Rabinovich, 1938 0-1

I Rabinovich vs Bogoljubov, 1925 1-0

Spielmann vs I Rabinovich, 1925 0-1

I Rabinovich vs Capablanca, 1925 1/2-1/2

Keres vs I Rabinovich, 1939 1/2-1/2

Smyslov vs I Rabinovich, 1939 1/2-1/2

Apr-20-06  jonny: yo
Oct-19-08  Xeroxx: <yo>

yoyo

Feb-01-09  Karpova: In 1920 he beat Peter Romanovsky in a match by the score of 6.0-2.0 (+5 -1 =2): http://www.geocities.com/al2055km/m...
Mar-01-09  great uncle bulgaria: dude looks like a chick

damn hot though

Sep-08-12  Karpova: Rabinovich won a Leningrad Masters Tournament in 1934 (all Leningrad masters except for Botvinnik participated):

1. Rabinovich 10.5
2. Ragozin 9.0
3. Chekhover 8.0
4-7. Lisitsin 7.5
4-7. Levenfish 7.5
4-7. Romanovsky 7.5
4-7. Savitsky 7.5
8. Alatortsev 7.0
9-10. Duz Chotimirsky 5.5
9-10. Rosenthal 5.5
11. Sosin 5.0
12-13. Gotthilf 4.0
12-13. Model 4.0
14. Rokhlin 2.5

From page 237 of the 1934 'Neue Wiener Schachzeitung'

Oct-08-13  Karpova: North-West-Russia Championship tournament in Leningrad, 1926:

1. I Rabinowitsch 8.0
2. Iljin-Schenewski 7.5
3. M Botvinnik 6.5
4. Model 3.5
5. Golubew 2.5
6. M Kagan 2.0

The games between the 1st 3 players ended all drawn. Their respective results against Model decided the final ranking.

From page 362 of the November-December 1926 'Neue Wiener Schachzeitung'

Sep-06-23  Synchsynch: Very impressive results!

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