The chess games of Mikhail Markovich Umansky

Mikhail Markovich Umansky
Number of games in database: 44
Years covered: 1968 to 2005
Current FIDE rating: 2465
Highest rating achieved in database: 2467
Overall record: +16 -9 =19 (58.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

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    E04 E01 E05
King's Indian (5)
    E62 E69 E82

With the Black pieces:

Robatsch (6)
    B06

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MIKHAIL MARKOVICH UMANSKY (born Jan-21-1952) Russia	[what is this?]
Mikhail Markovich Umansky was born on the 21st of January 1952 in Stavropol, USSR. He became the 13th World Correspondence Champion in 1998, and was also USSR Correspondence Champion in 1978. home page (English version) http://www.mumansky.com/myseit.htm

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Game	Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. M Umansky vs Ribli	0-1	38	1968	HUN-URS	A16 English
2. Ribli vs M Umansky	0-1	55	1968	HUN-URS	B33 Sicilian
3. M Umansky vs Ribli	0-1	39	1968	HUN-URS	B53 Sicilian
4. M Umansky vs E Balendo	1-0	35	1977	13th USSR CC Championship	E82 King's Indian, Samisch, double Fianchetto Variation
5. Vyzmanavin vs M Umansky	1-0	36	1989	Ch Russia (1/2 final Ch URS)	E11 Bogo-Indian Defense
6. M Umansky vs Baburin	1-0	41	1989	URS-sf RUS-ch Gorky 16	E04 Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3
7. M Umansky vs Dreev	1-0	62	1989	Gorki	D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
8. M Umansky vs J Penrose	1-0	37	1995	13 World Correspondence Final	D20 Queen's Gambit Accepted
9. E Bang vs M Umansky	1-0	26	1995	Massow mem-A corr9599	E42 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 c5, 5.Ne2 (Rubinstein)
10. J Lechtynsky vs M Umansky	½-½	16	2000	Oberliga Bayern 0001	E19 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3
11. M Umansky vs N Christensen	½-½	6	2000	LLS BY99/00	D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
12. M Umansky vs P Haba	0-1	55	2000	AUT-chT2M 0001	A43 Old Benoni
13. Vittorio Piccardo vs M Umansky	½-½	44	2003	ICCF - corr	A64 Benoni, Fianchetto, 11...Re8
14. M Umansky vs H Tiemann	½-½	40	2003	ICCF - corr	D44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
15. M Umansky vs V Palciauskas	½-½	48	2003	50th World Champions Jubilee Tournament	E04 Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3
16. M Umansky vs H M Elwert	½-½	56	2003	ICCF - corr	A63 Benoni, Fianchetto, 9...Nbd7
17. J Sloth vs M Umansky	0-1	50	2003	50th World Champions Jubilee Tournament	E08 Catalan, Closed
18. M Nimtz vs M Umansky	½-½	51	2003	ICCF - corr	B06 Robatsch
19. M Umansky vs Patrick Spitz	1-0	67	2003	ICCF - corr	E69 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Classical Main line
20. M Umansky vs Berliner	1-0	49	2003	50th World Champions Jubilee Tournament	E62 King's Indian, Fianchetto
21. G Solis de Ovando vs M Umansky	½-½	41	2003	ICCF - corr	B09 Pirc, Austrian Attack
22. G Sanakoev vs M Umansky	0-1	29	2003	50th World Champions Jubilee Tournament	B06 Robatsch
23. M Umansky vs Hertneck	1-0	48	2003	Schwarzach op-A 18th	A57 Benko Gambit
24. M Umansky vs Olita V Rause	1-0	32	2003	ICCF - corr	D30 Queen's Gambit Declined
25. M Umansky vs F Baumbach	1-0	51	2003	50th World Champions Jubilee Tournament	E04 Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3


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Dec-01-03		MoonlitKnight: Mikhail Umansky (51): Soon to become grandmaster in classical chess!

Jan-30-04		ughaibu: Here's a page with all the games from what I called the "all-stars": http://tables.iccf.com/jubilee/50wc...

Jan-30-04		ughaibu: A draw is considered to be the "natural result" of a game of chess, if this is actually the case one would expect that correspondence chess with it's fewer errors would produce a higher proportion of draws than would over the board chess. The 50th Jubilee tournament linked to above had 44% drawn games, for a correspondence tournament this is a high proportion, does anyone have any idea about the current average percentage of draws in over the board tournaments?

Jan-30-04		Benjamin Lau: I don't know the average % in otb classical tournaments, but I think that the assumption you're making ughaibu which I don't know is correct is that correspondence chess won't have more good moves and not simply less bad ones. Would that perhaps balance it out? Of course, my own assumption in this question is that a good move is not necessarily preceded by and related to a bad move from an opponent (therefore being merely expoitation).

Jan-30-04		ughaibu: My suspicion is that correspondence chess generally produces less draws than classical tournament chess does, which suggests that the idea of the "natural" draw is fallacious. I get the impression that the increase in "quality" in correspondence chess is more significant than the decrease in mistakes, although this doesn't equate to more interesting chess on the whole.

Jan-30-04		Benjamin Lau: Hmmmm, but do we know if postal players all spend equal amounts of time? If this inequality is very high, then it could account for correspondence having less draws (if it does).

Jan-30-04		ughaibu: That's a point. But losses on account of trivial mistakes are rare at world championship level and short, grandmaster style draws do exist. I'm going to compare the percentage of draws in the candidates tournaments with a similar number of correspondence finals to get a better idea if this conjecture has any basis.

Jan-30-04		ughaibu: I've compared the five candidates tournaments with the first five world correspondence championship tournaments. OTB 54% draws, CC 35% draws.

Jan-30-04		ughaibu: About the candidates tournaments: as you might expect 1959 was the fightingest (about 40% draws) second was 1962 (around 55%) an interesting point for drawing conspiracy theorists, in third place 1953 at about 56%.

Jan-30-04		ughaibu: Further to my last post, an interesting point struck me, the candidates of 1959 and 1962 were four round affairs while 1953 had an unusually large field. It seems that the percentage of draws declines as the number of games increases. Fatigue may play a part but equally fatigue could be expected to lead to short draws so it's interesting.

Mar-02-04		shr0pshire: The 13th Correspondence Chess Champion of the World! XV 1996-02 Gert Timmerman Netherlands XIV 1994-99 Tonu Oim Estonia XIII 1989-98 Mikhail Umansky Russia XII 1984-90 Grigory Sanakoev USSR XI 1981-87 Fritz Baumbach East Germany X 1978-84 Victor Palciauskas USA IX 1977-83 Tonu Oim USSR (Estonia) VIII 1975-80 Jorn Sloth Denmark VII 1972-76 Jakov Estrin USSR VI 1968-71 Horst Rittner East Germany V 1965-68 Hans Berliner USA IV 1962-65 Vladimir Zagorovsky USSR III 1959-62 Alberic O'Kelly de Galway Belgium II 1956-59 Viacheslav Ragozin USSR I 1950-53 Cecil (C.J.S.) Purdy Australia

Dec-19-04		Benzol: The 13th WCC Champion Mikhail Markovich Umansky was born 21st January 1952 in Stavropol. He was USSR correspondence champion in 1978.

Dec-26-04		kingscrusher: I would argue that Umansky is one of the strongest correspondence world champions ever after his convincing victory in the ICCF World champions tournament where 9/16 of all past correspondence world champions competed:- http://tables.iccf.com/jubilee/cham... If we look at his response to 1.e4 he played the Modern defence (1..g6) and scored 3.5/4 against four different World champions :)

Dec-07-05		StraightLarsen: yeah, hed beat you on chessworld kingscrusher. i have beaten him otb

Jan-21-06		BIDMONFA: Mikhail Umansky UMANSKY, Mikhail http://www.bidmonfa.com/umansky_mik... _

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