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Fedor Bohatirchuk
F Bohatirchuk 
 

Number of games in database: 273
Years covered: 1913 to 1977
Overall record: +125 -59 =89 (62.1%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (28) 
    B21 B83 B40 B32 B58
 Ruy Lopez (22) 
    C77 C73 C78 C64 C94
 French Defense (18) 
    C00 C19 C12 C16 C17
 Caro-Kann (15) 
    B17 B10 B18 B13 B14
 French (12) 
    C00 C12
 Bird's Opening (8) 
    A02 A03
With the Black pieces:
 Ruy Lopez (36) 
    C73 C75 C71 C68 C72
 Queen's Pawn Game (18) 
    A46 D02 A40 A45 A41
 Old Indian (13) 
    A53 A55 A54
 King's Indian (9) 
    E64 E67 E69 E80 E94
 English, 1 c4 e5 (8) 
    A21 A28 A23
 Queen's Gambit Declined (7) 
    D31 D30 D37 D35
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   F Bohatirchuk vs N Kopaev, 1938 1-0
   Ilyin-Zhenevsky vs F Bohatirchuk, 1924 0-1
   F Bohatirchuk vs Botvinnik, 1927 1-0
   V Rauzer vs F Bohatirchuk, 1934 0-1
   F Bohatirchuk vs F Duz-Khotimirsky, 1938 1-0
   Lasker vs F Bohatirchuk, 1935 1/2-1/2
   F Bohatirchuk vs Botvinnik, 1933 1-0
   F Bohatirchuk vs E Sadovsky, 1946 1-0
   F Bohatirchuk vs V Nenarokov, 1924 1-0
   F Bohatirchuk vs Botvinnik, 1935 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Ukrainian Championship (1937)
   URS-ch sf Kiev (1938)
   Ukrainian Championship (1936)
   Canadian Championship (1949)
   USSR Championship (1924)
   USSR Championship 1934/35 (1934)
   Amsterdam Olympiad qual-2 (1954)
   Canadian Championship (1951)
   USSR Championship (1923)
   USSR Championship (1927)
   Canadian Championship (1955)
   USSR Championship (1931)
   USSR Championship (1933)
   Moscow (1925)
   Amsterdam Olympiad Final-B (1954)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Masterpieces and Dramas of Soviet ch, part I by nizmo11
   Meerbeck 1946 Displaced Persons tournament by jessicafischerqueen
   1951 Canadian championship by gauer
   USSR Championship 1927 by Phony Benoni
   1949 Canadian championship by gauer
   USSR Championship 1923 by Phony Benoni


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FEDOR BOHATIRCHUK
(born Nov-26-1892, died Sep-04-1984, 91 years old) Ukraine (federation/nationality Canada)
PRONUNCIATION:
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Fedor Parfenovich Bohatirchuk was born in Kiev, Ukraine. He was awarded the IM title in 1954 and the IMC title in 1967. Bohatirchuk's chess career began by watching Mikhail Chigorin and he won the Kiev Championship in 1910, ahead of Efim Bogoljubov.

Bohatirchuk finished third in the Russian Championship of 1912 and third in the USSR Championships of 1923 and 1924. In the USSR Championship of 1927 [rusbase-1] he finished tied for first with Peter Romanovsky. Bohatirchuk achieved clear second (with 7/9) in the 1949 Canadian championship at Arvida and also came second in a USSR Championship qualifying tournament of 1938 - but did not take his place in the finals.

Being a radiologist and director of a research institute, Bohatirchuk was seconded to a German medical research facility when Kiev fell to the Germans in September 1941. He moved to a number of cities, including Krakow, Berlin and Potsdam and finally ended up in the American controlled city of Bayreuth in May 1945. For a time, he lived in Munich playing in German chess events under the name of 'Bogenko' so as to avoid repatriation to the USSR.

Bohatirchuk emigrated to Canada in 1948, became a naturalized citizen and played for Canada in the Olympiad of 1954 on fourth board, accumulating 8.5 points out of 15 team games. In his seventies, he took up correspondence chess.

References: http://www.olimpbase.org/, https://web.archive.org/web/2016030...

Wikipedia article: Fedir Bohatyrchuk. See also <https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-m...

Last updated: 2023-11-17 20:29:40

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 page 1 of 11; games 1-25 of 273  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. F Bohatirchuk vs V Nenarokov  1-0331913KievC49 Four Knights
2. Levenfish vs F Bohatirchuk  ½-½551923USSR ChampionshipD02 Queen's Pawn Game
3. F Bohatirchuk vs K Vygodchikov 1-0471923USSR ChampionshipC49 Four Knights
4. A Kubbel vs F Bohatirchuk 1-0501923USSR ChampionshipC62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense
5. P Romanovsky vs F Bohatirchuk 1-0261923USSR ChampionshipC64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
6. F Bohatirchuk vs S F Lebedev 1-0381923USSR ChampionshipA55 Old Indian, Main line
7. F Bohatirchuk vs A Ilyin-Zhenevsky 1-0291923USSR ChampionshipA52 Budapest Gambit
8. A G Guetsky vs F Bohatirchuk  1-0381924Ukrainian ChampionshipD67 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line
9. S Tikhenko vs F Bohatirchuk 0-1101924Ukrainian ChampionshipD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
10. Bogoljubov vs F Bohatirchuk 1-0251924URSC62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense
11. F Bohatirchuk vs I Rabinovich 1-0351924USSR ChampionshipB03 Alekhine's Defense
12. Bogoljubov vs F Bohatirchuk 1-0281924USSR ChampionshipA81 Dutch
13. F Bohatirchuk vs S von Freymann  1-0571924USSR ChampionshipC49 Four Knights
14. A Ilyin-Zhenevsky vs F Bohatirchuk 0-1521924USSR ChampionshipC62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense
15. N Grigoriev vs F Bohatirchuk 0-1421924USSR ChampionshipC68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange
16. F Bohatirchuk vs P Romanovsky  0-1571924USSR ChampionshipD15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
17. F Bohatirchuk vs V Nenarokov 1-0381924USSR ChampionshipB45 Sicilian, Taimanov
18. Levenfish vs F Bohatirchuk  ½-½371925MoscowD67 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line
19. F Bohatirchuk vs Tartakower  ½-½621925MoscowB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
20. Spielmann vs F Bohatirchuk  ½-½211925MoscowC26 Vienna
21. F Bohatirchuk vs N Zubarev 1-0241925MoscowC12 French, McCutcheon
22. Saemisch vs F Bohatirchuk  ½-½471925MoscowD35 Queen's Gambit Declined
23. F Bohatirchuk vs Bogoljubov ½-½711925MoscowB40 Sicilian
24. S Gotthilf vs F Bohatirchuk  ½-½541925MoscowD67 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line
25. F Bohatirchuk vs Capablanca 0-1281925MoscowB83 Sicilian
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Nov-26-10  Antiochus: Fyodor reached his second soviet title with brilliant tactics: F Bohatirchuk vs Dus Chotimirsky, 1938
F Bohatirchuk vs S Belavenets, 1938
F Bohatirchuk vs N Kopaev, 1938
Jun-12-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  beatgiant: Where can I see some of his games before 1923 (earliest in this site as of now)?
Jun-12-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <beatgiant> I've looked on two other sites, and they also have no games earlier than 1923.
Jun-13-11  TheFocus: Here is an consutation game against Capablanca from 1914.

Bogoljubow, E., Bogatirchuk, F., & Evensson, A. – Capablanca Queen’s Gambit Declined
Kiev, March 5, 1914

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bg5 Nbd7 6.e3 O-O 7.Rc1 b6 8.cxd5 exd5 9.Qa4 Bb7 10.Ba6 Bxa6 11.Qxa6 c5 12.O-O c4 13.Rfd1 Qc8 14.Qxc8 Raxc8 15.Ne5 Rfd8 16.Nb5 a6 17.Na7 Rc7 18.Nac6 Nxe5! 19.Nxe7+ Rxe7 20.dxe5 Rxe5 21.Bxf6 gxf6 22.Rxc4 dxc4 23.Rxd8+ Kg7 24.Kf1 Ra5 25.Rd6 b5 26.a3 c3 27.bxc3 Rxa3 28.g4 a5 29.Rb6 Rb3 30.Ra6 Ra3 31.Rb6 Rxc3 32.Rxb5 Rc1+ 33.Kg2 a4 34.Ra5 Ra1 35.Ra6 Kg6 36.h4 Kg7 37. Ra8 a3 38.Kf3 Ra2 39.Ra6 Ra1 40.Kf4 Ra2 41.f3 Rh2 42.Kg3 Ra2 43.h5 Ra1 44.Kf4 Ra2 45.Ke4 h6 46.f4 Rg1 47.Rxa2 Rxg4 48.Kf5 Rg3 49.e4 Rg1 50.Rh2 Rg3 51.Rh4 Re3 52.Rg4 Kf8 53.Rg1 Re2 54.Rg3 Re1 draw.

Jun-15-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  beatgiant: <TheFocus>
Very interesting; thanks!
Jul-08-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: Bohatirchuk and the Mrs.

(Olga)

http://www.canadianchess.info/image...

Sep-04-13  KlingonBorgTatar: RIP Fedor Parfenovich.
Jan-17-14  Conrad93: Haha, 3-0 against Botvinnik.
Apr-03-14  Everett: <The suffix “-chuk” (or -chuck or -czyk) denoted either the son of, or an apprentice to the blacksmith. It is somewhat similar in commonality to English surname Smith.>

From wiki. Never knew that meaning. Ivanchuk has been hammering out some awesome chess recently har har har.

Apr-03-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <Everett> In 1979, I lost a game to the strong Montreal player George Levtchouk. One supposes there is at least a chance that -chouk comes to the same sort of thing.
Apr-03-14  Everett: <perfidious> no shame in that loss; you were obviously hammered into sterner stuff!
Aug-02-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp: <Everett: <The suffix “-chuk” (or -chuck or -czyk) denoted either the son of, or an apprentice to the blacksmith. It is somewhat similar in commonality to English surname Smith.> From wiki. Never knew that meaning. Ivanchuk has been hammering out some awesome chess recently har har har.>

Well if -chuk means Smith, and we all know that Ivan is a Russian version of John, then Vassily Ivanchuk 's surname means "John Smith".

Jun-01-16  diagonal: biography (no new information if you have followed the chessgames postings, but an easy to read summary of his life, working & chess career, including Bohartirchuk's games against Botvinnik): http://www.chessdevon.co.uk/HTML/ga...
Jun-02-16  posoo: Dis man looks INSANE and UNSTABILE. It is a relef dat he is NOT one of my frends

DOS HE SMASH?

Nov-27-17  whiteshark: Today CB published a big bio report about him: https://de.chessbase.com/post/der-m... (The man who was Dr Schiwago - in German)

The non-working correspondencechess.com-link in his bio should be replaced by https://web.archive.org/web/2016030...

Nov-28-17  whiteshark: and here's the a.m. CB report in English: https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-m...
Nov-28-17
Premium Chessgames Member
  ketchuplover: <posoo> the feeling is probably mutual :)
Jul-11-20  jith1207: Is there any update on Bohatirchuk project mentioned earlier 16 years ago?

I guess it's important to share the knowledge and resources with more volunteers for future continuation for avoiding the risk of losing all the good work done so far.

Sep-06-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <Everett: <perfidious> no shame in that loss; you were obviously hammered into sterner stuff!>

So it would seem. (laughs)

Sep-06-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  gezafan: He looks a little bit like Gomez from the 1960s TV show The Addams Family.
Nov-26-24  Petrosianic: Bohatirchuk was most famous for his unauthorized winning score against Botvinnik.
Nov-26-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: Small wonder he avoided repatriation into the arms of Mother Russia and disappeared into the American Zone after World War II ended.
Nov-26-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  keypusher: Bohatirchuk joined an army of ex-Soviets collaborating with the Nazis. Which is understandable, but I'm pretty sure that's the reason he thought it prudent to escape to the American zone.

I'm surprised the Americans didn't give him back.

Nov-26-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: As Lawrence Day quoted him in a tribute published in <Chess Canada> after Bohatirchuk's death (paraphrasing, as I do not have the issue to hand):

'I changed my name to Bogenko, to throw investigators off the scent'

Frightfully sorry: I do not have six primary, four secondary and three tertiary sources for the above snippet.

Apr-23-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp: The NKVD really did seek out people and kill them, people like Trotsky.

Two Russians flew from Moscow to London in 2018. Then they travelled to Salisbury and saw the beautiful cathedral. They then returned to Moscow quickly.

During the next week a Russian expatriate died from radiation poisoning. Whoever did that is back in his or her country.

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