Boris Mazan

"Chess club" NS ". Issue No. 24 (1140). To the 80th anniversary of the Great Terror https://sibscana.com/new/_chess_clu...

Honored Chess Player of Western Siberia - this is how Boris Petrovich Mazan was officially called in chess circles. He worked on the railroad and changed his place of residence many times due to his official needs. From 1901 to 1922 - Tomsk, 1922-1924 - Omsk, 1924-1925 - Novosibirsk, then again Tomsk and from 1935 - Novosibirsk. But still, most of his chess life is associated with Tomsk. Here he learned the wisdom of the chess game, won his first victories. Since the pre-revolutionary years, he was one of the strongest chess players in Siberia, more than once won the title of champion of the city, he happened to meet at the chessboard with Czech masters Hromadka and Treibal, who during the First World War ended up as prisoners of war in Tomsk. Novosibirsk turned out to be his last station - in 1938 he shared the fate of many.

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Vladimir Neyshtadt "Don't worry, dear ..."

https://www.ap22.ru/paper/Ne-volnuy...

Somewhere in the late 80s, the elder of Siberia, chess Konstantin Konstantinovich Sukharev, stayed with me in Barnaul for several days. He became the champion of Novosibirsk five times since the pre-war period, headed the regional chess federation for more than 20 years, and then until his death was its honorary chairman. For decades, he led chess departments in Vecherny Novosibirsk and Sovetskaya Siberia.

Old photo

On a snowy winter day, we slowly walked with him from the Central Department Store to the Old Bazaar, climbed the Mountain. Tall, dignified, looking much younger than his venerable years, Tin Tinich (as his friends called him, simplifying his name and patronymic) suddenly began to remember how, in the late spring of 1917, his father brought their family here, to the upland part of the city, and then left on his own merchant affairs in Tomsk. They were left alone with their mother, and one morning Kostya went to the window and froze with horror: below everything was engulfed in fire, there were rushing about, people shouting, burning alive ...

The mother quickly harnessed her horse, put her six-year-old son, the neighboring boys, on a cart, and they rushed off to a distant hut.

What else did Tin Tinych remember: they first wanted to stay with friends in the city itself, and if his father had not changed his mind at the last moment and had not taken them to Kosoy Vzvoz (a street in the Upland), they and their mother would most likely also have been among numerous victims of the worst fire in the history of Barnaul.

Leaving, white-haired Tin Tinich presented me with an old photograph of the mid-30s, where he was still a young guy (second from the left in the last row) with jet-black hair in the company of the strongest chess players of Siberia at that time.

Fought with Alekhine himself
And in the center of the picture, in a light jacket, the man who was then called the chess teacher of Siberia - Boris Mazan. He was the first Siberian to play in the All-Russian tournament, and it happened in 1912 in Saratov. Moreover, he arrived there with his, as they would say now, exclusive chess made of palm wood, and then took care of them as a relic, because there, in Saratov, he fought with them with Alexander Alekhin, the future world champion (obviously, in a simultaneous game) ...

I was able to admire this filigree chess when, together with Tin Tinich, I visited the oldest Novosibirsk chess player Valentina Doroshinskaya in the mid-90s (in the picture she is on the right at the board), she kept this rarity like one of Mazan's favorite students. Valentina Lvovna's father and brother died during the Great Terror. The same tragedy befell her teacher. Small, strong and in her 80s, the landlady of the apartment treated us to tea with biscuits. Putting it on the table, she told:

- Boris Petrovich had dark forebodings ... He said that in his youth he had been a Menshevik for some time and that he would definitely be remembered. They arrested him later than mine. From the transit point, he was able to somehow convey a note to his own, there was: "Don't worry, dear, I'm going to work in the North." A strong man - being on the verge of death, he consoled his relatives ... His family was immediately evicted from the apartment. Galina, his daughter, had a wonderful voice, she studied in Moscow, sang in the Sveshnikov choir. She took her mother to her. Of course, they hoped that Boris Petrovich was alive, they were looking for his trail ... In 1954, Gala was given a certificate of the posthumous rehabilitation of his father, the year of death was not indicated there.

In his younger years, Mazan was a strong first-class player (now this is at least the level of a FIDE master), he beat, for example, the Czechs of the Karelov namesakes, Treibala and Gromadka, who were tournament fighters of a good European class.

B. Mazan - K. Gromadka

1916 match

Spanish Party

Event "?"
Site "?"
Date "1916.??.??"
Round "?"
White "Mazan, Boris"
Black "Hromadka, Karel"
Result "1-0"
Source "Vladimir Neyshtadt article"

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. Qe2 b5 6. Bb3 Bc5 7. a4 Rb8 8. axb5 axb5 9. c3 O-O 10. O-O d5 ♙awn sacrifice counting on active play. 11. exd5 e4 12. dxc6 exf3 13. Qxf3 Bg4 14. Qg3 Be2 15. d4 15.♖e1? ♘e4 Bd6 16. Qh4 Ng4 I should have played 16...♗xf1 17. Bg5 Bxh2+ 18. Kh1 Qd6 19. Nd2 h6 20. Be7 Qf4 21. Bxf8 Qxd2 22. Qe7 Rxf8 23. Bxf7+ Rxf7 24. Ra8+ Kh7 25. Qe4+ g6 26. Qe8 Annotations by ♔arel Hromadka 1-0

... The host of the "Game Library" also captured old men gray-haired like a harrier - the Barnaul Chess Guard of the pre-war period. One of them, Ilya Kosarev, recalled how, as a young man, he fought against Mazan in a simultaneous game in 1926. We played in the best at that time Barnaul club "Kommunisticheskiy", located on Tobolskaya street. Mazan, who came to examine the Altaians from Novosibirsk, cleaned up the local chess growth, be healthy.

According to the stories of Kosarev, all the Barnaul authorities came to look at the guest, because he was a well-known person in Russia beyond the Urals. I will add - a major railway figure, and in this capacity he was delegated to the Siberian Regional Duma, established in Tomsk at the end of 1917 and consisting of Social Revolutionaries, representatives of the indigenous Siberian peoples, Mensheviks, Siberian regional leaders, etc.

This temporary body of supreme, representative and legislative power in autonomous Siberia existed for nothing; on November 10, 1918, it dissolved itself. But maybe it was this short-term deputy in the Sibobldum that was remembered 20 years later by the oprichniki from the NKVD to the chess teacher of Siberia ...

It's good that we played badly
In the semifinals of the 1954 USSR Championship, the Barnaul master candidate Vasily Lepikhin nearly defeated Yefim Geller. He already wanted to capitulate in a position lost in the smoke, as Lepikhin made a gross mistake in time trouble ...

The grandmaster (in a year Geller will take the gold of the national championship) consoled the gray-faced Barnaul resident for a long time:

- Well, why are you so worried, Vasily Vasilyevich? After all, you have already turned in so many won games here - so why should you have won against me?

In fact, the multiple champion of Altai was no stranger to beating the grandmasters and masters of the Altai, and in his Siberian patrimony he was then in the forefront, like another strong Barnaul candidate for master Vladimir Khilkov.

But before the war, Chess Altai was not quoted, a happy episode was when in Barnaul the home team unexpectedly beat (4.5 - 3.5) in a friendly match the strong Novosibirsk team Lokomotiv Vostoka, led by one of the best first-class athletes in Siberia, Vitaly Rassokhin ( in the photo he is second from the right in the last row).

The same Ilya Kosarev, who played on board 1 with the leader of the guests, told me many years later that they won then against Novosibirsk by chance, they simply were not tuned in to play with weaklings.

Or maybe it's for the best that the leaders of Altai chess in the 30s were in the shadows, on the sidelines? After all, those Siberian chess players who were in sight, basically fell under the skating rink of repression, like Mazan. These are Peter Izmailov (the first chess master in Siberia), a prominent scientist-hydrogeologist Yuri Krasnov (in the photo to the right of Mazan in the second row), Alexander Morozkov, Gavrila Ufintsev (the father of the outstanding master and theorist Anatoly Ufimtsev, whose name the passport officer changed a little), Georgy Lee, Pavel Benko ...

"I was expecting an arrest then," Sukharev told me, recalling the tragedies of his colleagues in the chess workshop, "but it turns out that I was lucky.

A participant in the Great Patriotic War, a cavalier of military awards, he lived for 92 years. He worked at a geodetic enterprise as a teacher. He wrote poetry, local history materials ... In co-authorship with him (also with the repeated champion of Altai, Ruvim Kur), we published the book "Chess Siberia" in 1995.

Over time, he switched to refereeing major tournaments, and all his life occasionally composed chess compositions, on the diagram - one of his beautiful studies, published back in 1930 in the All-Union Chess Journal.

PHOTO OF CHESS PUZZLE

A man of many talents, he was an excellent family man, dearly loved his wife and daughter. Kapitolina Mikhailovna (her husband always called her Kapochka) cooked superbly, I still remember her delicious goulash and how Tin Tinich playfully treated her in his hospitable house:

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Chessbase article on Karel Treybal

https://en.chessbase.com/post/remem...

"Incredible, but in 1919 six members of the Czech Legion played an unfinished double-round-robin tournament in Tomsk. Karel Hromadka played all his games and scored eight points. Karel Treybal finished with 6½ / 8 but won twice against Karel Hromadka."

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Chess in the Tomsk region
3 Aug 2017
Names in the history of Tomsk chess

A.F. Volokitin (1887-1938)

July 2017 marks the 130th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Fedorovich Volokitin, one of the leading chess players of Tomsk in the first quarter of the 20th century. A native of the village of Lyubavchikha, Totemsky district, Vologda province, in 1907, after graduating from the Vladivostok gymnasium, he entered the mechanical department of the Tomsk Technological Institute. Perhaps Alexander got acquainted with chess while studying at the gymnasium, since in Vladivostok there was a circle of chess fans since 1900. Well, at the Institute of Technology, the soil for a hobby for chess was the most favorable. Chess tournaments were held here, there was a chess club, technology students successfully performed in city competitions. Already in 1910, Alexander Volokitin became a member of the city chess club, which indicates a fairly high level of his game. In 1914 he was elected to the board of the circle. 4 people were elected by a closed ballot: Alexander Fedorovich Volokitin, Nikolai Alexandrovich Ivanitsky, Boris Petrovich Mazan and Valentin Pavlovich Shmelev. All four made a great contribution to the development of Tomsk and Siberian chess. All four were subsequently repressed. Of these, Valentin Shmelev suffered the least. In 1925, by the decision of the presidium of the chess and checkers section, he was expelled from all chess organizations as an "alien element". Volokitin, Ivanitsky and Mazan were arrested in 1937-1938. and shot. All four made a great contribution to the development of Tomsk and Siberian chess. All four were subsequently repressed. Of these, Valentin Shmelev suffered the least. In 1925, by the decision of the presidium of the chess and checkers section, he was expelled from all chess organizations as an "alien element". Volokitin, Ivanitsky and Mazan were arrested in 1937-1938. and shot. All four made a great contribution to the development of Tomsk and Siberian chess. All four were subsequently repressed. Of these, Valentin Shmelev suffered the least. In 1925, by the decision of the presidium of the chess and checkers section, he was expelled from all chess organizations as an "alien element". Volokitin, Ivanitsky and Mazan were arrested in 1937-1938. and shot. But back to 1914. Yesterday's student A. Volokitin is already working as a statistician in the resettlement and land management organization, but he does not part with chess. He takes part in the 1st category players tournament. The tournament was held "in memory of the unexpectedly deceased and promising chess player Bykov." 8 people played in 2 circles. Volokitin performed unsuccessfully - he took only 7th place, gaining 5.5 points, but he managed to win one game against Boris Mazan, who took 1st place. In 1914, the All-Russian Chess Union was founded in St. Petersburg. The Tomsk people were represented at the congress by Boris Mazan, the Tomsk branch of 10 people (including Volokitin) joined the ranks of the newly formed Union. Interestingly, exactly half of this dozen were representatives of the Institute of Technology (three more were from the railway, In 1916, Alexander took 4th place in the tournament of the strongest chess players in Tomsk. In February of the same year, the team of the Tomsk Chess Club entered the 1st Big Correspondence Tournament with the participation of chess clubs organized by the Chess Bulletin magazine. As part of the Tomsk team, which included the 7 strongest chess players of the circle, we see the name of Volokitin, whose initials, however, are different - N.N. But there is no doubt that this is exactly our Volokitin - Alexander Fedorovich. The year 1919 was full of chess events: the Czech maestros Treibal and Gromadka were in Tomsk, the famous chess player Karl Rosenkrantz, the first champion of Yekaterinburg, Alexander Ardashev, arrived as refugees. Tomsk chess players, taking advantage of such an influx of eminent guests, organize chess tournaments, simultaneous games, matches. Alexander Volokitin does not stand aside: in the tournament with the participation of Treibal and Gromadka, he takes the honorable fourth place. Both Czech maestros and Tomsk champion Boris Mazan are ahead of him. In a big tournament with the participation of about 20 Tomsk chess players, Volokitin shares 3-4th place with Valentin Shmelev (and only Boris Mazan and Arthur Gleye are ahead). Later, in October 1919, another tournament was held with the participation of Treibal, Rosenkrantz, Ardashev and other famous chess players. Volokitin took part in it, but, Like many other Tomsk chess players, in 1919 Volokitin was mobilized into the Kolchak army. He did not stay in military service for long - from March 24 to May 19 (for this reason, he missed the "Easter tournament"), after which he returned to work as the head of the statistics department of the Altai region. But the Civil War, it seems, did not end there for him. As far as can be judged from the facts discovered, cadet Alexander Fedorovich Volokitin took part in hostilities on the side of the white movement, was captured, and, apparently, this was the reason for his appearance at the end of 1920 in Petrograd. Here he met at the chessboard with the famous chess player M.N. Shebarshin., Who was also in different concentration camps for participating in the white movement (the end of this game was published in 1921 in the Chess Sheet of Petrogubkommuna). In November-December 1921, a quadruple tournament was held in Tomsk, in which the whole color of Siberian chess played - Mazan, Tronov, Komarov and Volokitin. Having lost all games, Mazan was eliminated after the first round, as a result Komarov took 1st place, Tronov - the second, Volokitin - the third. In the spring of 1922, a tournament was organized with five participants, in which Tronov won by a huge margin, and Volokitin became the second, ahead of Bogomolov, Galakhov and Goryachkin. In the later match of 8 games between Tronov and Volokitin, Tronov won a landslide victory, having won 5 games and 3 in a draw. In 1923 A.F. Volokitin, as a member of the white movement, was on special account in the Primorsky military district, from where he once arrived in Tomsk to enter the institute. At this time, he disappears from the Tomsk competitions. In 1924, Alexander Volokitin took 1st place in the citywide tournament of 1st category chess players and became the champion of Tomsk. In December 1924, at a meeting of the chess and checkers section, he was included in the tournament-expert commission, which was created with the aim of "the normal conduct of city-wide chess competitions." Alas, after that the name of Alexander Volokitin begins to appear in chess reports quite rarely. At the beginning of 1925, he still took part in the First Tomsk mass tournament as part of the 1st team of Soviet workers, but then he almost completely disappeared from the chess horizon. In 1934 he took 6th place in the Tomsk championship with 13 participants. In 1937, the newspaper "Krasnoe Znamya" reported that the semi-finals of the city championship had been held. The winners of the semifinal groups, together with specially admitted S. Morozkov and A. Morozkov, Tronov, Volokitin and Bulanov, will make up the final ...

And the final - an entry in the "Book of Memory of the Tomsk Region": Volokitin Alexander Fedorovich, born in 1887, Northern Territory, village. Lyubovchikha, Russian, incomplete higher education, b / p, TTI, planner. Lived: Tomsk. Arrested on December 24. 1937
Sentenced: December 29. 1937, obv .: "TKP".
Sentence: Shooting. Shot on January 7. 1938
Rehabilitated in May 1959

Tatiana Magazinnikova, Ramil Mukhometzyanov

https://vk.com/wall-66380876_2427

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Tomsk 1908 Match vs Aravijsky

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Mazan won the match 2.5:1:5

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Tomsk 1910 (24 January) Team match University vs Technological Institute.

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Izmailov played 1st board for the Tech Institute, losing his game to Dulebov. The University team won the match 3.5:0.5

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Tomsk 1910 (Winter) Match vs V. Dobrokhotov

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The 10 game match was drawn 5.0:5.0

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Saratov 1912 ?

Fought with Alekhine himself
And in the center of the picture, in a light jacket, the man who was then called the chess teacher of Siberia - Boris Mazan. He was the first Siberian to play in the All-Russian tournament, and it happened in 1912 in Saratov. Moreover, he arrived there with his, as they would say now, exclusive chess made of palm wood, and then took care of them as a relic, because there, in Saratov, he fought with them with Alexander Alekhin, the future world champion (obviously, in a simultaneous game) ...

-Vladimir Neyshtadt "Don't worry, dear ..."

https://www.ap22.ru/paper/Ne-volnuy...

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Tomsk 1913 Match vs V Shmelev for the title of Champion of Tomsk. Mazan won the match +10-1=2

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V Shmelev vs B Mazan, 1913

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Tomsk 1914 Double round robin tournament.

Mazan finished first over S. Leshedko, D. Liubimov, N Balakhnin and others, scoring 10.5/14

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B Mazan vs N Balakhnin, 1914

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Tomsk 1916

Casual games vs Karel Hromadka and Karel Treybal , who were being held in Tomsk as prisoners of war at this time.

One game score preserved
B Mazan vs Hromadka, 1916

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Novisibirsk 1924 Novisibirsk championship

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Mazan finished 3rd, behind Pavel Komarov and Pavel Pavlovich Benko , who shared 1st-2nd.

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Novosibirsk 1924 (February) Match vs. Pavel Komarov

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This 18 game match was drawn 9.0:9.0

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Novosibirsk 1925 Match vs. bad player ID

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The match was drawn 3.5:3.5

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Tomsk 1926 Tomsk championship

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Mazan finished 1st, ahead of bad player ID and Panov.

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