Fedor Parfenovich Bohatirchuk
Number of games in database: 211
Years covered: 1923 to 1977
Overall record: +86 -50 =75 (58.5%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (23)      B21 B40 B83 B32 B58  Ruy Lopez (18)      C77 C94 C78 C73 C64  French Defense (13)      C00 C19 C18 C16 C17  Caro-Kann (10)      B18 B10 B17 B14 B13  French (7)      C00 C12  Bird's Opening (6)      A02 A03	With the Black pieces:  Ruy Lopez (28)      C75 C73 C68 C62 C79  Queen's Pawn Game (13)      A46 A40 A41 D02 D00  Old Indian (10)      A53 A55 A54  English, 1 c4 e5 (6)      A21 A23 A28  Queen's Gambit Declined (6)      D31 D30 D35  King's Indian (5)      E69 E67 E91

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Ilyin-Zhenevsky vs F Bohatirchuk, 1924 0-1
   F Bohatirchuk vs Dus Chotimirsky, 1938 1-0
   F Bohatirchuk vs Botvinnik, 1927 1-0
   Rauzer vs F Bohatirchuk, 1934 0-1
   F Bohatirchuk vs Botvinnik, 1935 1-0

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FEDOR PARFENOVICH BOHATIRCHUK (born Nov-26-1892, died Sep-04-1984) Ukraine (citizen of Canada) [what is this?] Fedor Parfenovich Bohatirchuk was born on the 26th of November 1892 in Kiev, Ukraine. He was awarded the IM title in 1954 and the IMC title in 1967. His chess career began by watching Mikhail Chigorin and he won the Kiev Championship in 1910 ahead of Efim Bogoljubov. He finished 3rd in the Russian Championship of 1912 and 3rd in the USSR Championships of 1923 and 1924. In the USSR Championship of 1927 he was 1st= with Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky. He also came 2nd in a USSR Championship qualifying tournament for 1938 but did not take his place in the finals. Being a radiologist and director of a research institute he 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. He emigrated to Canada in 1948 became naturalized and played for Canada in the Olympiad of 1954. In his seventies he took up correspondence chess.

page 1 of 9; games 1-25 of 211  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. A Kubbel vs F Bohatirchuk   1-0 50 1923 URS-ch02 C62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense 2. Levenfish vs F Bohatirchuk   ½-½ 55 1923 St Petersburg ch-SU D02 Queen's Pawn Game 3. P Romanovsky vs F Bohatirchuk 1-0 26 1923 URS-ch02 C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical 4. F Bohatirchuk vs K Vygodchikov   1-0 47 1923 URS-ch02 C49 Four Knights 5. F Bohatirchuk vs Ilyin-Zhenevsky 1-0 29 1923 URS-ch02 A52 Budapest Gambit 6. F Bohatirchuk vs S F Lebedev   1-0 38 1923 URS-ch02 A55 Old Indian, Main line 7. Bogoljubov vs F Bohatirchuk 1-0 25 1924 Petrograd (III USSR Ch.) C62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense 8. F Bohatirchuk vs P Romanovsky   0-1 57 1924 URS-ch03 D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 9. Bogoljubov vs F Bohatirchuk   1-0 28 1924 Moscow ch-SU (02) A81 Dutch 10. Ilyin-Zhenevsky vs F Bohatirchuk 0-1 52 1924 URS-ch03 C62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense 11. F Bohatirchuk vs Nenarokov   1-0 38 1924 URS-ch03 B40 Sicilian 12. F Bohatirchuk vs S Von Freymann   1-0 57 1924 URS-ch03 C49 Four Knights 13. F Bohatirchuk vs I Rabinovich   1-0 35 1924 URS-ch03 B03 Alekhine's Defense 14. N Grigoriev vs F Bohatirchuk 0-1 42 1924 URS-ch03 C68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange 15. S Gotthilf vs F Bohatirchuk   ½-½ 54 1925 Moscow International Tournament D67 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line 16. Reti vs F Bohatirchuk 1-0 63 1925 Moscow International Tournament A28 English 17. F Bohatirchuk vs Marshall   0-1 35 1925 Moscow C49 Four Knights 18. F Bohatirchuk vs Yates   ½-½ 66 1925 Moscow International Tournament C49 Four Knights 19. Samisch vs F Bohatirchuk   ½-½ 47 1925 Moscow International Tournament D35 Queen's Gambit Declined 20. F Bohatirchuk vs Verlinsky   ½-½ 53 1925 Moscow International Tournament B40 Sicilian 21. F Bohatirchuk vs P Romanovsky   ½-½ 12 1925 Moscow International Tournament C48 Four Knights 22. Gruenfeld vs F Bohatirchuk   ½-½ 54 1925 Moscow-Wch A80 Dutch 23. F Bohatirchuk vs N Zubarev   1-0 24 1925 Moscow International Tournament C12 French, McCutcheon 24. Ilyin-Zhenevsky vs F Bohatirchuk   ½-½ 31 1925 Moscow International Tournament C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical 25. Lasker vs F Bohatirchuk 1-0 32 1925 Moscow International Tournament C87 Ruy Lopez  page 1 of 9; games 1-25 of 211    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2) | Bohatirchuk wins | Bohatirchuk loses

< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 3 OF 3 ·  Later Kibitzing > May-22-05    Ted Zeppelin: When your in the Kolyma, does it matter how your name is spelled? Jul-06-05    Knight13: Seems like this guy was stronger than Botvinnik but never had a chance to became a world champion! Aug-27-05    Evensohn: There is a series of great articles (only in Russian, unfortunately) at the www.chesspro.ru website on the first five USSR Championships. They feature excerpts from periodicals and books that give the background stories of the tournaments and some annotated games. Also, there are many photographs some of which are not well known because they were later suppressed due to the presence in them of Bohatirchuk. Of these tournaments Bohatirchuk came =3rd in the 2nd & 3rd Championships and shared 1st(with Romanovsky) in the 5th Championship. 1st USSR Championship, Moscow, 1920: http://www.chesspro.ru/book/rc20.sh... 2nd USSR Championship, Petrograd, 1923: http://www.chesspro.ru/book/rc23.sh... 3rd USSR Championship, Moscow, 1924: http://www.chesspro.ru/book/rc24.sh... 4th USSR Championship, Leningrad, 1925: http://www.chesspro.ru/book/rc25.sh... 5th USSR Championship, Moscow, 1927: http://www.chesspro.ru/book/rc27.sh... Feb-17-06    sitzkrieg: 58,7 percent score! Jul-29-06    BIDMONFA: Fedor Parfenovich Bohatirchuk BOHATIRCHUK, Fedor P. http://www.bidmonfa.com/bohatirchuk... _ Aug-24-06    Mibelz: During WW II, Bohatirchuk (Bogatyrtschuk) played in Ukraine, Poland and Czech. In February 1944, he took 2nd, behind Efim Bogoljubow, in Radom (Generalgouvernment). In Spring 1944, he drew a match against Stepan Popel in Cracow (2 : 2). In May 1944 Bohatirchuk played an 8-game training match against local players (Kottnauer, Pachman, Podgorny, Prucha, etc.) in Prague (+7 -0 =1). Sep-04-06    Morales: In memoriam of a legend: Fiodor Bohatirchuk died 22 years ago (Sep-04-1984). Nov-26-06    WTHarvey: Here is a little collection of puzzles from Fedor's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/boha.html Nov-26-06    Bob726: This guy lived for over 100 years? Nov-26-06    Karpova: no, 92 years to be exact Nov-26-06    IMlday: This year Zoltan Sarosy turned 100. He and Bohatirchuk were postal rivals: Z Sarosy vs F Bohatirchuk, 1976 Chess Mail, the Dublin-based correspondence magazine, devoted issue ISSN 1393-385X to Bohatirchuk, before it unfortunately folded. Holland's Michiel Plomp won the postal memorial event. The full book on Fedor is still in editing. Nov-20-07    xeroxmachine: 91 years to be even more exact, he never lived through his ninety-second birthday. Nov-26-07    whiteshark: player of the day Mar-05-08    mack: So, what's the sitch with the Bohatirchuk Project then? Mar-05-08    IMlday: the mills of the gods grind slow but they grind exceeding fine. Mar-06-08    Calli: I think that means the price has gone up :-( Mar-06-08    eremite: http://www.newinchess.com/Masterpie... - this new book is full of well annotated games of Bohatirchuk, as well as of rich citations of his unique memoirs. It should be translated and published somewhere in US or UK Mar-06-08    MichAdams: <Meet Botvinnik in his younger years, his rivalry with Nikolai Ruimin, Levenfish, Alekhine(!) and many other early-Soviet giants.> He didn't play Alekhine until 1936, so I don't know if this is just an error, or deliberately misleading. And they spelled <seperately> incorrectly, as well. Mar-06-08    Calli: A friend who reads Russian tells me that the book is great but much of it already in Voronkov's columns at Chesspro.ru Mar-07-08    eremite: Right, but if one cannot read in Russian, he can enjoy neither articles at chesspro.ru nor a book... Mar-28-08    Resignation Trap: For a photo of Bohatirchuk in the role of a radiologist see: http://dfcc.narod.ru/FCCU/Tournamen... . Mar-28-08    Resignation Trap: If that link doesn't work, try: http://dfcc.narod.ru/FCCU/Tournamen... . Jun-25-08    whiteshark: "My great attraction to chess was much because it was democratic: race, religion, class, or age had no bearing at all. In chess, we are just like children, being interested, first of all, in everything unexpected, new, marvellous." -- Fedor P. Bohatirchuk Oct-28-08    stoy: Bohatirchuk's lifetime score against M.M. Botvinnik was 3.5 / 0.5 - pretty good! Oct-30-08    Karpova: C.N. 5816 shows a photograph of Bohatirchuk's grave (taken by Irene Ben-Tchavtchavadze) and Yakov Zusmanovich writes: <Currently I am cooperating with Sergey Voronkov on his book about Bohatirchuk. We are going to re-issue Bohatirchuk’s volume 'Moi zhiznenny put’ k Vlasovu i Prazhskomu Manifestu', which was published in Russian in San Francisco in 1978. In addition to Bohatirchuk’s own text, the book will include a collection of his games, articles and documents. There will be an extensive introduction by Boris Spassky.> Readers who can help him (they <are particularly interested in the games from Bohatirchuk’s match against Stepan Popel in Cracow and from a tournament in Radom. Both events took place in 1944.>) should contact Edward Winter. Source: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... Jump directly to page #   (enter number from 1 to 3) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 3 OF 3 ·  Later Kibitzing >

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