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Vasily Panov
Number of games in database: 135
Years covered: 1929 to 1956
Overall record: +33 -55 =47 (41.9%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Ruy Lopez (18) 
    C75 C77 C61 C72 C88
 Sicilian (16) 
    B24 B91 B76 B80 B58
 French Defense (12) 
    C18 C13 C12 C00 C09
 Caro-Kann (10) 
    B17 B15 B10 B14 B11
 French Winawer (6) 
    C18 C17 C19 C15
 French (5) 
    C13 C12 C00
With the Black pieces:
 Ruy Lopez (14) 
    C97 C74 C84 C87 C75
 Ruy Lopez, Closed (10) 
    C97 C84 C87
 King's Indian (8) 
    E67 E90 E68 E62 E60
 Old Indian (8) 
    A53 A54
 Sicilian Scheveningen (6) 
    B80 B83 B84
 Sicilian (6) 
    B80 B83 B84
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Panov vs N Sorokin, 1953 1-0
   Panov vs A Poliak, 1934 1-0
   Ragozin vs Panov, 1940 0-1
   Panov vs Kotov, 1939 1/2-1/2
   Ragozin vs Panov, 1935 1/2-1/2

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VASILY PANOV
(born Nov-01-1906, died Jan-18-1973) Russia

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Vasily Nikolayevich Panov was born on the 1st of November 1906 in Kozelsk, Russia. Awarded the IM title in 1950 he won the Moscow Championship of 1929. Chess correspondent for Izvestia he contributed much to the theory of the Caro-Kann and the Ruy Lopez.

 page 1 of 6; games 1-25 of 135  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. Panov vs N Sorokin  0-152 1929 URS-ch06 qf1C00 French Defense
2. Panov vs A Bernstein  1-049 1929 URS-ch06 qf1B46 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation
3. Panov vs I Mazel  0-133 1934 USSR ChampionshipC41 Philidor Defense
4. Chekhover vs Panov  0-147 1934 USSR ChampionshipA53 Old Indian
5. Panov vs M Yudovich Sr.  1-031 1934 USSR ChampionshipB17 Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation
6. Ilyin-Zhenevsky vs Panov 0-142 1934 USSR ChampionshipC84 Ruy Lopez, Closed
7. Panov vs Alatortsev 0-153 1934 USSR ChampionshipC18 French, Winawer
8. L Savitsky vs Panov  1-040 1934 USSR ChampionshipE67 King's Indian, Fianchetto
9. Panov vs A Poliak 1-031 1934 MoscowC13 French
10. Panov vs Veresov  0-137 1934 USSR ChampionshipB17 Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation
11. Panov vs F Bohatirchuk  ½-½29 1934 USSR ChampionshipC75 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense
12. Kan vs Panov  ½-½38 1934 USSR ChampionshipC14 French, Classical
13. Lisitsin vs Panov  1-068 1934 USSR ChampionshipE67 King's Indian, Fianchetto
14. I Rabinovich vs Panov  1-043 1934 USSR ChampionshipA97 Dutch, Ilyin-Genevsky
15. Panov vs S Von Freymann  1-066 1934 USSR ChampionshipC61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense
16. Panov vs P Dubinin 1-039 1934 USSR ChampionshipB83 Sicilian
17. Riumin vs Panov  1-042 1934 USSR ChampionshipE26 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch
18. S Belavenets vs Panov  0-143 1934 USSR ChampionshipC49 Four Knights
19. Panov vs V Makogonov 0-134 1934 USSR ChampionshipB80 Sicilian, Scheveningen
20. Rauzer vs Panov  0-134 1934 USSR ChampionshipC84 Ruy Lopez, Closed
21. Ragozin vs Panov ½-½45 1935 Ch URSC14 French, Classical
22. Panov vs Levenfish  ½-½47 1935 Ch URSC75 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense
23. Konstantinopolsky vs Panov  1-035 1936 LeningradA53 Old Indian
24. Panov vs O Rubtsova 1-031 1936 Trade UnionsB63 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack
25. Kotov vs Panov 0-149 1936 Moscow RUSE62 King's Indian, Fianchetto
 page 1 of 6; games 1-25 of 135  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Jun-12-03
Premium Chessgames Member
  Honza Cervenka: Chessgames.com, the games Fischer vs Panov, 1967 and Taimanov vs Panov, 1970 were not played by Soviet IM Vasily Panov, but by Yugoslav player Vasil Panov.
May-03-06   The17thPawn: <Chessgames.com> The game Panov vs. Taimanov, 1952 played in Moscow is not in database. This game is analyzed in detail in Chernev's, " The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played". Please include if you are able as it is deserving of study.
May-03-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  Caissanist: If you have a copy of the game suitable for submission (PGN format), then you can submit it yourself, the instructions are at PGN Upload Utility. Or if you don't feel ready to tackle a PGN submission by all means feel free to just post the game score on this page, somebody will probably then submit it sooner or later.
May-03-06   The17thPawn: <Caissanist> - I don't have a copy in PGN format and the text from Chernev is in descriptive notation. Maybe I could force my Fritz nine to play through the moves and then create a file after game analysis. I'm really not sure how and any advice from well versed Fritz users out there would be welcome. I've only had the program briefly and I'm still a newby when it comes to its higher functions. Any generous souls out there seeing this message please respond!
Aug-24-06   rudysanford: Perhaps I could be of assistance. I am using Chessmaster 9000. It has the option for displaying moves in several notations. When playing over games in older books, I adjust the game status to descriptive notation and then save them into a .pgn file. Chessmaster must track the moves internally in algebraic but then display them as descriptive, when selected, because saving to .pgn yields a .txt file in algebraic moves.

I then import these older games to my databases which are maintained by SCID.

If you would like to send me the moves or a scan of the pages in descriptive, I would be happy to do this for you and then post the game to the pgn upload on this site.

Let me know if you are interested.

BTW

I can highly recommend SCID, especially for the price: $0.00.

Oct-13-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  notyetagm: Could someone please comment on the book <Kapablanca>, the Russian language game collection of Capablanca written by Panov?

How does it compare to the standard English language work <Capablanca's 100 Best Games> by Golombek?

I read in OMGP Volume 5 that Panov's book on Capablanca was critical in turning Karpov into a top player.

Thanks.

Oct-17-06   The17thPawn: <rudysanford> - Thanks for your reply. I will attempt converting the game into a .pgn file using you method and submit. Thanks a bunch!
Oct-21-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  notyetagm: Anyone have any idea where I can buy the Russian-language book <Kapablanca> by Panov?

Thanks.

Oct-22-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  Calli: <notagmyet>

http://www.chessdate.com/?cd=shop&p...

Oct-22-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  notyetagm: <Calli: <notagmyet> http://www.chessdate.com/?cd=shop&p...;

Mucho thanks, <Calli>. :-)

Nov-01-06   BIDMONFA: Vasily Panov

PANOV, Vasily N.
http://www.bidmonfa.com/panov_vasil...
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Nov-01-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  Caissanist: <The17thPawn:> There is also currently an online utility that will do the conversion at http://alawi.csail.mit.edu/~alawi/c...
Nov-01-06   gauer: Panov is well-known for the Caro-Kan attack named for him, but I also sometimes see in the Spanish Closed game that there is a set-up called the Panov formation. What's the theory of the latter attack plan, and is it good for black to avoid it, or has black found improvements?
Nov-01-06   2021: Happy birthday Panov!
Aug-25-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  whiteshark: PANOV, Vasily N.
http://chesspro.ru/_images/material...
Nov-01-07   xrt999: <gauer: Panov is well-known for the Caro-Kan attack named for him>

In top level play, Panov was +0 -0 =3 with this opening (Caro-Kann with 4.c4) and in each game he played different 6th moves: Be3, Bf4, and Bg5, drawing each one. Not exactly mind-boggling success to get an opening named after you.

It must be that he either introduced this new variation of the Caro, or he wrote about it extensively.

Nov-01-07   RookFile: Well, it was called the Panov-Botvinnik attack, I can attest to that.
Nov-01-07   xrt999: Right, so why is Panov's name associated with 4.c4, since Botvinnik was +6 -2 =1 as white with 4.c4?

Of those nine games, he played 6.Bg5 five times, and therefore I always assumed that 6.Bg5 was <the> Panov-Botvinnik attack. (Botvinnik was +3 -2 =0 with 6.Bg5 as white.)

Nov-01-07   RookFile: That happens with a lot of things. Take for example the Fischer variation of the Nimzo - a line that Alekhine was playing before Fischer was even born, against Reshevsky, and others.
Feb-29-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  whiteshark: Quote of the Day

<The loser is always at fault.>

-- Panov

It rings true. :D

Jun-26-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  whiteshark: Quote of the Day: "The loser is always at fault." (Panov)

<The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.> (Hegel)

Jun-26-08   babakova: Not if it's poker...
Dec-29-08   jamesmaskell: Its amazing that Panov and Botvinnik didnt actually play the Panov Botvinnik that many times...
Jun-02-09   Fanacas: Many people who have openings to there names dont play it much, it could be becous there arent that many annontet games of them or that they simply just studied the opening. (steinitz on the other end played alsmost all of hist opening constantly)
Nov-01-09   Ghost of Merlin: happy birthday vasily! it's my mom's birthday too...
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