Vitaly Tseshkovsky
Number of games in database: 1,890
Years covered: 1963 to 2006
Current FIDE rating: 2504
Highest rating achieved in database: 2600
Overall record: +684 -366 =818 (58.5%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      22 exhibition games, blitz games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (437)      B92 B90 B23 B30 B43  Ruy Lopez (185)      C92 C91 C90 C67 C88  French Defense (131)      C11 C18 C10 C09 C19  Ruy Lopez, Closed (105)      C92 C91 C90 C88 C89  Sicilian Najdorf (93)      B92 B90 B93 B91  Sicilian Scheveningen (57)      B84 B85 B81 B83 B82	With the Black pieces:  Grunfeld (113)      D85 D91 D93 D87 D94  Sicilian (110)      B52 B30 B94 B33 B23  Ruy Lopez (107)      C88 C84 C78 C92 C89  Pirc (99)      B08 B09 B07  King's Indian (70)      E60 E63 E62 E64 E92  Ruy Lopez, Closed (65)      C88 C84 C92 C89 C96

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Tseshkovsky vs Savon, 1977 1-0
   Kouatly vs Tseshkovsky, 1988 0-1
   Tseshkovsky vs Lutikov, 1968 1-0
   Tseshkovsky vs Miles, 1989 1-0

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VITALY TSESHKOVSKY (born Sep-25-1944) Russia [what is this?] Vitaly Valerianovich Tseshkovsky was born on the 25th of September 1944 in Omsk, USSR. Awarded the IM title in 1973 and the GM title in 1975 he was USSR Champion in 1978 (jointly with Mikhail Tal) and 1986. Internationally he was 1st at Bucharest 1974, Leipzig 1975, Dubna 1976, Banja Luka 1981, Sochi 1981 and Minsk 1982.

page 1 of 76; games 1-25 of 1,890  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. M Szekely vs Tseshkovsky   1-0 56 1963 HUN-RSFSR C50 Giuoco Piano 2. Tseshkovsky vs Bukhover   1-0 48 1963 URS B84 Sicilian, Scheveningen 3. M Szekely vs Tseshkovsky   1-0 42 1963 HUN-RSFSR C75 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense 4. Tseshkovsky vs M Szekely   0-1 35 1963 HUN-RSFSR C83 Ruy Lopez, Open 5. Tseshkovsky vs M Szekely   1-0 33 1963 HUN-RSFSR C41 Philidor Defense 6. I Nemet vs Tseshkovsky   0-1 86 1963 YUG-URS C75 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense 7. Tseshkovsky vs I Nemet   0-1 35 1963 YUG-URS B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation 8. Zlotnik vs Tseshkovsky   0-1 38 1963 URS-ch U26 C72 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense, 5.O-O 9. Tseshkovsky vs V Voskanian   ½-½ 58 1963 URS B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 10. E S Stoliar vs Tseshkovsky   1-0 42 1964 Burevestnik CC-ch A25 English 11. Tseshkovsky vs N Zilberman   0-1 44 1964 URS C05 French, Tarrasch 12. A Roshal vs Tseshkovsky   ½-½ 43 1964 Burevestnik CC-ch A04 Reti Opening 13. Tseshkovsky vs Felix Cheremisin   1-0 36 1964 Burevestnik CC-ch B83 Sicilian 14. I Polgar vs Tseshkovsky   0-1 57 1964 RSFSR-HUN E14 Queen's Indian 15. Tseshkovsky vs I Polgar   1-0 35 1964 RSFSR-HUN B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 16. I Polgar vs Tseshkovsky   1-0 39 1964 RSFSR-HUN E14 Queen's Indian 17. Tseshkovsky vs I Polgar   1-0 30 1964 RSFSR-HUN C00 French Defense 18. Yuchtman vs Tseshkovsky   1-0 41 1966 URS-chT A45 Queen's Pawn Game 19. S Giterman vs Tseshkovsky   0-1 39 1966 Ch URS (team) C29 Vienna Gambit 20. F Levin vs Tseshkovsky   ½-½ 36 1966 Ch URS (team) C28 Vienna Game 21. Khodos vs Tseshkovsky   ½-½ 44 1967 RUS Spartakiad E25 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch 22. V Zilberstein vs Tseshkovsky   0-1 34 1967 URS ol C46 Three Knights 23. Tseshkovsky vs Y Sakharov   0-1 41 1967 URS-ch35 B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation 24. Tseshkovsky vs Gurgenidze   0-1 33 1968 Ch URS, Alma-Ata B10 Caro-Kann 25. Tseshkovsky vs Y Sakharov   1-0 68 1968 Ch URS, Alma-Ata C00 French Defense  page 1 of 76; games 1-25 of 1,890

Jul-31-03    Honza Cervenka: Chessgames.com, I would guess that "Vitaly Tseshkovsky" is more usual way of transcription of name of this player. Jan-27-05    russs: Sakharov should stick with literature and politics, perhaps.. Jul-19-05    e4Newman: I don't know. Check out Anand vs Tseshkovsky, 1989 Aug-26-05    Caissanist: On the most recent FIDE list, Viktor Korchnoi is once again the highest rated player over the age of 60. The second highest, far ahead of everyone else, is Vitaly Tseshkovsky. This surprised me since I never remembered him as being among the world's elite, and in fact it turns out that his current rating of 2599 is his all time high. Of course ratings inflation contributed to this, but even so it's remarkable to see a player hit his peak this late in life. Tseshkovsky has improved steadily over the last few years, and it looks like he might be able to crack the world top 100 within a year or two. Aug-26-05    iron maiden: His main weakness in major tournaments is his lack of stamina; other than that, he's not playing much worse than he did in the eighties. Dec-05-05    WTHarvey: Here is a little collection of crucial positions from Vitaly's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/tses.html Jan-04-06    Honza Cervenka: <Caissanist><I never remembered him as being among the world's elite> He definitely was one of world's elite in late 1970s and early 1980s. According to chessmetrics.com he was even in top ten for a short period. http://www.chessmetrics.com/CM2/Pla... Aug-07-06    waddayaplay: He has an energetic and uncompromising style. Good opening knowledge; appears to have studied a lot and developed his own understanding of positions. A fighter, he tries to squeeze the most out of every position. Perhaps he could be compared to Korchnoi. Although Korchnoi of course doesn't play 1.e4 . Interesting game: Tseshkovsky vs Kasparov, 2004 Sep-19-07    Peligroso Patzer: I ended up on this page this morning by way of Istvan Polgar, who was the player of the Black pieces in today’s puzzle (Szabo vs I Polgar, 1969 – position after 22. … b8) and against whom Tseshkovsky played several games that are included in the database. It seems like quite a long time since I have heard anything about Vitaly Tseshkovsky, who I suppose is now well along in years. At one time he was quite a prominent GM, with two Soviet Championships on his résumé. His was always a very appealing style of play, so I am glad to have been serendipitously reminded of him.

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