Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich
Number of games in database: 250
Years covered: 1909 to 1941
Overall record: +87 -82 =81 (51.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  French Defense (12)      C07 C01 C02 C19 C11  Queen's Pawn Game (9)      D05 A40 A46 A50 D02  Ruy Lopez (9)      C68 C99 C82 C78 C84  Orthodox Defense (9)      D63 D52 D58 D50 D67  Queen's Gambit Declined (8)      D30 D38 D31 D37  English (7)      A15 A13 A18	With the Black pieces:  Ruy Lopez (25)      C66 C75 C71 C64 C91  Orthodox Defense (12)      D55 D69 D63 D68 D58  Queen's Pawn Game (11)      A50 D00 A40 D04 A45  Sicilian (9)      B50 B58 B88 B72 B83  Slav (9)      D11 D19 D13 D12 D10  Alekhine's Defense (6)      B03 B02 B05

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   I Rabinovich vs L Savitsky, 1934 1-0
   I Rabinovich vs Ragozin, 1935 1/2-1/2
   S Von Freymann vs I Rabinovich, 1934 1/2-1/2
   I Rabinovich vs Ilyin-Zhenevsky, 1932 1-0
   Botvinnik vs I Rabinovich, 1937 0-1
   Dus Chotimirsky vs I Rabinovich, 1924 0-1

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

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   USSR Championship 1933 by Phony Benoni
   USSR Championship 1924 by Phony Benoni
   Leningrad 1934 by Phony Benoni

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ILYA LEONTIEVICH RABINOVICH (born May-11-1891, died Apr-23-1942) Russia [what is this?] 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. He played in 9 USSR Championships during 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. He was primarily a positional player. He perished from malnutrition in the siege of Leningrad in 1942. Wikipedia article: Ilya Rabinovich

page 1 of 10; games 1-25 of 250  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. I Rabinovich vs Salwe   1-0 33 1909 Vilnius C30 King's Gambit Declined 2. Dus Chotimirsky vs I Rabinovich 0-1 23 1909 Vilnius D00 Queen's Pawn Game 3. Salwe vs I Rabinovich   0-1 44 1909 Vilnius D04 Queen's Pawn Game 4. S Von Freymann vs I Rabinovich   1-0 34 1909 Vilnius C49 Four Knights 5. I Rabinovich vs Salwe   1-0 56 1909 Vilnius C44 King's Pawn Game 6. L Estrin vs I Rabinovich   ½-½ 36 1912 RUS-chB C66 Ruy Lopez 7. K Rausch vs I Rabinovich   1-0 26 1912 RUS-chB D31 Queen's Gambit Declined 8. I Rabinovich vs S Globus   1-0 26 1912 RUS-chB A84 Dutch 9. I Rabinovich vs Hromadka   ½-½ 49 1912 RUS-chB B01 Scandinavian 10. I Rabinovich vs A Selezniev   1-0 24 1914 Triberg 1415 B17 Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation 11. I Rabinovich vs S Vainshtein   1-0 17 1914 Triberg 1415 C33 King's Gambit Accepted 12. I Rabinovich vs A Selezniev   1-0 31 1914 Triberg 1415 C28 Vienna Game 13. I Rabinovich vs A Selezniev   1-0 26 1914 Triberg 1415 C10 French 14. Bogoljubov vs I Rabinovich 1-0 37 1914 Baden C66 Ruy Lopez 15. I Rabinovich vs S Vainshtein   1-0 47 1914 Triberg 1415 D33 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 16. I Rabinovich vs Flamberg 0-1 31 1914 Triberg 1415 C53 Giuoco Piano 17. Alekhine vs I Rabinovich 0-1 49 1914 St Petersburg C66 Ruy Lopez 18. I Rabinovich vs B Maliutin   1-0 35 1916 Triberg D33 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 19. I Rabinovich vs Fahrni   1-0 50 1916 Triberg D31 Queen's Gambit Declined 20. Bogoljubov vs I Rabinovich 1-0 31 1917 Triberg E21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights 21. I Rabinovich vs N Pavlov-Pianov   1-0 55 1920 USSR Championship B16 Caro-Kann, Bronstein-Larsen Variation 22. I Rabinovich vs Alekhine 0-1 39 1920 USSR Championship E12 Queen's Indian 23. A Kubbel vs I Rabinovich   1-0 62 1920 USSR Championship C49 Four Knights 24. Ilyin-Zhenevsky vs I Rabinovich   0-1 53 1921 Petrograd C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense 25. I Rabinovich vs Platz   0-1 30 1922 Ch Leningrad C82 Ruy Lopez, Open  page 1 of 10; games 1-25 of 250

Apr-20-06    BIDMONFA: Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich RABINOVICH, Ilya L. http://www.bidmonfa.com/rabinovich.... _ Apr-20-06    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'

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