Fyodor Ivanovich Dus Chotimirsky
Number of games in database: 252
Years covered: 1901 to 1954
Overall record: +81 -130 =39 (40.2%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      2 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Queen's Pawn Game (42)      D02 A46 D05 D04 D00  Orthodox Defense (11)      D62 D63 D61 D52 D53  Tarrasch Defense (9)      D34 D32 D33  Queen's Gambit Declined (9)      D31 D30 D37  Slav (7)      D13 D11 D15 D10  Semi-Slav (5)      D46 D44 D45	With the Black pieces:  Ruy Lopez (28)      C63 C88 C77 C79 C68  Sicilian (22)      B34 B58 B43 B21 B57  Queen's Pawn Game (16)      D02 A40 A46 E10 D00  Ruy Lopez, Closed (7)      C88 C87  King's Indian (5)      E80 E69 E67 E64  Queen's Gambit Declined (5)      D31 D30 D35

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Dus Chotimirsky vs Rotlewi, 1911 1-0
   Dus Chotimirsky vs Bannik, 1949 1-0
   Tartakower vs Dus Chotimirsky, 1909 0-1
   Schlechter vs Dus Chotimirsky, 1907 1/2-1/2
   Rubinstein vs Dus Chotimirsky, 1909 0-1
   Mieses vs Dus Chotimirsky, 1907 0-1
   Dus Chotimirsky vs Tartakower, 1911 1-0
   Dus Chotimirsky vs Mieses, 1909 1/2-1/2
   Dus Chotimirsky vs Janowski, 1907 1-0
   Rubinstein vs Dus Chotimirsky, 1911 1/2-1/2

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Easy Dus it! Selected Games of Dus-Chotimirsky by Resignation Trap

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FYODOR IVANOVICH DUS CHOTIMIRSKY (born Sep-26-1879, died Nov-05-1965) Russia [what is this?] Fyodor Ivanovich Dus-Chotimirsky was born in 1879 in Kozul, Russia. He competed in several notable international tournaments, including St. Petersburg 1909 (where he defeated both the first-prize winners, Akiba Rubinstein and World Champion Emanuel Lasker). He is also believed to have given some tutoring to Alexander Alekhine. He continued to compete after World War II, and was awarded the official title of International Master in 1950.

page 1 of 11; games 1-25 of 252  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Dus Chotimirsky vs Schiffers   0-1 25 1901 RUS-ch02 B40 Sicilian 2. Dus Chotimirsky vs L Gennika   0-1 30 1901 RUS-ch02 D53 Queen's Gambit Declined 3. Dus Chotimirsky vs Grigoriev 0-1 23 1901 RUS-ch02 C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense 4. V Boyarkov vs Dus Chotimirsky   0-1 33 1901 RUS-ch02 D53 Queen's Gambit Declined 5. V Tabunshikov vs Dus Chotimirsky   1-0 24 1901 RUS-ch02 C42 Petrov Defense 6. Dus Chotimirsky vs Janowski 0-1 42 1901 RUS-ch02 B32 Sicilian 7. Dus Chotimirsky vs S I Sharov   1-0 18 1901 RUS-ch02 C66 Ruy Lopez 8. Prince Dadian vs Dus Chotimirsky 1-0 14 1901 Hamburg Germany C37 King's Gambit Accepted 9. B Yankovich vs Dus Chotimirsky   1-0 28 1901 RUS-ch02 C58 Two Knights 10. K Rosenkrantz vs Dus Chotimirsky   0-1 57 1901 RUS-ch02 C51 Evans Gambit 11. V N Kulomzin vs Dus Chotimirsky 1-0 22 1901 RUS-ch02 C56 Two Knights 12. N Kalinsky vs Dus Chotimirsky   1-0 41 1903 RUS-ch03 B20 Sicilian 13. Dus Chotimirsky vs Schiffers   0-1 18 1903 RUS-ch03 C55 Two Knights Defense 14. O Bernstein vs Dus Chotimirsky   1-0 61 1903 RUS-ch03 B45 Sicilian, Taimanov 15. V Nikolaev vs Dus Chotimirsky   0-1 48 1903 RUS-ch03 B25 Sicilian, Closed 16. Dus Chotimirsky vs A Rabinovich   ½-½ 62 1903 RUS-ch03 C67 Ruy Lopez 17. S Levitsky vs Dus Chotimirsky   1-0 32 1903 RUS-ch03 B23 Sicilian, Closed 18. Dus Chotimirsky vs S Izbinsky   1-0 33 1903 RUS-ch03 B19 Caro-Kann, Classical 19. Znosko-Borovsky vs Dus Chotimirsky 1-0 34 1903 Kiev All-Russian ch B45 Sicilian, Taimanov 20. Dus Chotimirsky vs W Von Stamm   1-0 36 1903 RUS-ch03 B20 Sicilian 21. Rubinstein vs Dus Chotimirsky 0-1 75 1903 RUS-ch03 D05 Queen's Pawn Game 22. V N Kulomzin vs Dus Chotimirsky   1-0 51 1903 RUS-ch03 C63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense 23. M Lowtzky vs Dus Chotimirsky   ½-½ 40 1903 RUS-ch03 D10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 24. Dus Chotimirsky vs V Breev   1-0 61 1903 RUS-ch03 C43 Petrov, Modern Attack 25. S F Lebedev vs Dus Chotimirsky   ½-½ 78 1903 RUS-ch03 C63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense  page 1 of 11; games 1-25 of 252

May-28-04    iron maiden: Dus Chotimirsky's greatest tournament may well have been St. Petersburg 1909, where he failed to qualify for a prize but defeated both Lasker and Rubinstein (who shared first place, two and a half points ahead of the field) in their individual encounters. May-28-04    Gypsy: David Bronstein aggrees with you. <For his wins in Petrsburg 1909, Dus-Chotimirsky was called 'the scourge of champions'.> Btw., here is how Bronstein describes their KG encounter Dus Chotimirsky vs Bronstein, 1954, nearly 1/2 century later (200 Open Games): "As soon as my oponent played 2.f4. I heard his angry: 'Either you take the pawn or I do not play!' There was nothing I could do; I accepted the old maestro's gambit. "Several moves later Dus Chotimirsky played a hurried move and, whilst I was considering my reply, decided ... to change his move. Spectators gasped and judges wanted to stop the clocks. But Fjodor Ivanovich suddenly shouted at everyone: 'What on earth is this? I just made a bad move and now I am changing it for a good one. To hell with rules, this is Chess!... Besides, you do not object?' said my oponent turning to me. 'Go ahead, its my pleasure.' And the game went on as if nothing had happened." Jul-11-04    nikolaas: Here's what I know from this guy. Born 26 September 1879 in Kozel, Russia he became a very strong player. In 1903, he participated in a tournament in Kiev: He finished 15th out of 19, but defeated Rubinstein. In 1907 he participated in a tournament in Karlsbad, where he defeated among others Nimzovich, Mieses and Janowsky. He always claimed that he gave some lessons to Alekhine and that indeed seems to be true. In st Petersburg 1909 he beated Lasker, Rubinstein and Tartakover and some others. He hated fast draws; between 1901 and 1910 he drawed not a single game in less than 20 moves. In 1911, he appeared again in Karlsbad and defeated again Tartakover. In a tournament in Moscow 1925, he beated Yates and Spielmann. In 1950, he received the official IM title. He died in 1965. A picture can be found at http://www.chesslive.de/scripts/ser... Jun-17-05    chesswonders: A giant crusher! Mar-08-06    JG7: Herehttp://nimzowitsch.com/Tourn_and_Ma... is better picture of him Mar-22-06    Resignation Trap: Dus Chotimirsky was playing <hors concours> at the 1947 Armenian Championship and tied with Petrosian and Kasparian for 2nd-4th, behind Bondarevsky. He had the pleasure of inflicting upon the USSR Junior Champion his only loss: White to play. click for larger view Despite the threatening black pawns and severe time trouble, Dus Chotimirsky instantly found a winning combination: 1.Rxh6 Qd8 2.Rxh7+ Kxh7 3.Qf3 Rf8 4.Qh5+ Kg8 5.Qh6! g6 6.Rh3 with inevitable mate. Mar-22-06    Resignation Trap: I forgot to mention that the game above was Dus Chotimirsky - Tigran V.Petrosian May-02-07    wolfmaster: Certainly a candidate for longest name on database, though probably not a winner. May-02-07    tpstar: The longest name list = Baron Tassilo Heydebrand und der Lasa Jun-01-08    WilhelmThe2nd: In the discussion of the San Sebastián, 1911 photo here: http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp... I am pretty sure the unidentified man to the left of Leonhardt in this photo is Dus: http://chessbase.com/news/2008/wint... He writes in his book of games (page 88, Fyodor Dus-Chotimirsky. "Selected Games". Moscow: Physical Culture & Sport, 1954) that he attended the tournament as a journalist. You can compare him with the photos of Dus at Karlsbad 1907 & 1911 here: http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/histori... and the 1913/4 All-Russian Masters photo here: http://picasaweb.google.com/Caissa1... Jul-30-08    whiteshark: Bio + picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor... Sep-05-08    JustWoodshifting: If the story by Bronstein is, indeed, true, I would have been very uncomfortable playing Dus Chotimirsky OTB. In my 3rd or 4th OTB game, I ran into a similar situation with a very large man who actually was growling at me, while leaning across the board. It unnerved me so that I made some very basic mistakes. In the end he snarled at me, "You have a lot to learn!", to which I replied "I am humbled.". Sep-26-08    BIDMONFA: Fyodor Ivanovich Dus Chotimirsky DUZ KHOTIMIRSKY, Fyodor I. http://www.bidmonfa.com/duz_khotimi... _ Sep-26-08    GrahamClayton: Dus Chotimisrky finished =3rd in the 1923 and 1927 USSR Championship, and was the St Petersburg city champion in 1910. Sep-26-08    whiteshark: Can you respell his name properly? Sep-26-08    Resignation Trap: Here's a solo shot from 1923: http://www.chesspro.ru/pict/rc23-9.... He is in a group photo from the 1923 USSR Championship: http://www.chesspro.ru/pict/rc23-0.... , and again from the 1925 USSR Championship: http://www.chesspro.ru/pict/rc25-1.... . In both of these photos, Dus-Chotimirsky can easily be identified, as he is the only one not to take off his hat for the photograph. And here is a caricature from 1933: http://www.chesspro.ru/pict2/rc33-6... .

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