Vladimir Alatortsev
Number of games in database: 249
Years covered: 1929 to 1965
Overall record: +71 -82 =96 (47.8%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Nimzo Indian (31)      E21 E54 E34 E46 E37  Orthodox Defense (12)      D53 D51 D63 D64 D50  Catalan (12)      E01 E04 E02 E08 E06  Queen's Gambit Declined (8)      D31 D37 D30 D35  Queen's Pawn Game (7)      E00 A40 A41 D02 A46  Grunfeld (7)      D85 D71 D97 D80 D83	With the Black pieces:  Slav (16)      D13 D11 D15 D19 D12  French Defense (13)      C18 C11 C05 C01 C19  Ruy Lopez (12)      C82 C87 C98 C85 C61  English, 1 c4 e5 (9)      A25 A27 A20 A22  Nimzo Indian (7)      E43 E26 E41 E34 E32  Queen's Pawn Game (6)      A40 D02 A45 E00

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Bronstein vs Alatortsev, 1944 0-1
   Taimanov vs Alatortsev, 1948 0-1
   Alatortsev vs Riumin, 1935 1-0
   Alatortsev vs F Bohatirchuk, 1935 1/2-1/2

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VLADIMIR ALATORTSEV (born May-14-1909, died Jan-13-1987) Russia [what is this?] Vladimir Alexeyevich Alatortsev was born on the 14th of May 1909 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Awarded the IM title in 1950 and an Emeritus GM title in 1983 he was joint Leningrad Champion in 1933-34 and joint Moscow Champion in 1936 and 1937. He also competed 'hors concours' in the Latvian Championship of 1945, which he also won. He came to the fore in Soviet Chess in the early 1930's and finished 2nd to Mikhail Botvinnik in the 1933 USSR Championship. He drew a match with Andre Lilienthal (+4, =4, -4) in 1935 and became a chess organiser and teacher. From 1954 - 1961 he was head of the Soviet chess organization. He played in nine USSR Championships from 1931 to 1950.

page 1 of 10; games 1-25 of 249  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. A Batuyev vs Alatortsev   0-1 31 1929 Leningrad D13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation 2. Alatortsev vs Rokhlin   0-1 36 1929 Leningrad D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 3. Rokhlin vs Alatortsev 1-0 39 1929 Leningrad A44 Old Benoni Defense 4. Alatortsev vs Botvinnik 0-1 32 1930 Leningrad chc E21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights 5. Alatortsev vs Botvinnik   0-1 32 1930 Leningrad ch-city E21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights 6. Alatortsev vs Lisitsin   0-1 31 1931 URS-ch07 E21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights 7. Alatortsev vs Verlinsky   ½-½ 57 1931 URS-ch07 D31 Queen's Gambit Declined 8. Ilyin-Zhenevsky vs Alatortsev   0-1 50 1931 URS-ch07 C01 French, Exchange 9. Alatortsev vs M Yudovich Sr.   1-0 27 1931 URS-ch07 E12 Queen's Indian 10. Alatortsev vs Zamikhovsky 1-0 27 1931 URS-ch07 D46 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 11. Alatortsev vs Goglidze 1-0 34 1931 URS-ch07 D37 Queen's Gambit Declined 12. Rauzer vs Alatortsev   ½-½ 69 1931 URS-ch07 D93 Grunfeld, with Bf4 & e3 13. V Sozin vs Alatortsev   ½-½ 67 1931 URS-ch07 C01 French, Exchange 14. A Budo vs Alatortsev   0-1 42 1931 URS-ch07 D10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 15. Botvinnik vs Alatortsev   1-0 27 1931 Moscow ch-SU E85 King's Indian, Samisch, Orthodox Variation 16. Alatortsev vs N Sorokin   1-0 23 1931 URS-ch07 E09 Catalan, Closed 17. V G Kirillov vs Alatortsev   ½-½ 74 1931 URS-ch07 A25 English 18. F Bohatirchuk vs Alatortsev 1-0 28 1931 URS-ch07 C19 French, Winawer, Advance 19. Alatortsev vs Riumin   ½-½ 52 1931 URS-ch07 D52 Queen's Gambit Declined 20. Kasparian vs Alatortsev 1-0 53 1931 URS-ch07 D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 21. Alatortsev vs I Mazel 1-0 22 1931 URS-ch07 A40 Queen's Pawn Game 22. Kan vs Alatortsev   ½-½ 47 1931 URS-ch07 C15 French, Winawer 23. A Budo vs Alatortsev   0-1 30 1932 Leningrad-ch E60 King's Indian Defense 24. Alatortsev vs I Rabinovich   1-0 48 1932 Leningrad-ch D64 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack 25. Botvinnik vs Alatortsev 1-0 46 1932 Russia D26 Queen's Gambit Accepted  page 1 of 10; games 1-25 of 249    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2) | Alatortsev wins | Alatortsev loses

Oct-09-04    waddayaplay: Vladimir Alatortsev (14.05 1909 - ? ) http://www.chesslive.de/playbase/pl... He wrote a chess book in 1960 called something like Modern Chess Theory. Its first part deals with the development of style, spanning from Morphy to Tal. The second part (the largest part) is about piece development, pawn structures, space, etc. Many examples from contemporary games. Also examples from older games by Chigorin, Steinitz and Morphy. 401 diagrams, 335 pages. Apr-07-05    Resignation Trap: Date of death: January 13, 1987. Apr-08-05    Benzol: <Resignation Trap> Thanks mate! Jul-26-05    Gypsy: Trener of Smyslov in late 1940's. His theoretical speciality was utilization of weak collor-complexes in middle game. (ref. Kotov-Yudovich) Jul-26-05    euripides: <utilization of weak collor-complexes in middle game> As in Alatortsev vs Capablanca, 1935 Jul-27-05    Gypsy: <euripides> Smooth play by Black and rather dis-harmonious by White. Maybe this game inspired Alatorcev to study such things. Of course, it is easy to like an idiot when losing to Capablanca. Jul-27-05    euripides: <gypsy> very true. Aug-22-08    myschkin: . . . aka <V. Alatorcev> never got the opportunity to compete outside the Soviet Union. He was awarded an Honorary Emeritus Grandmaster title by FIDE in 1983. This was clearly well deserved, since his win at Leningrad 1938 and his second place in the Soviet Championship 1933 were definitely strong Grandmaster results. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladim... E-Book "Interaction of figures and pawns in chess" (1956, in Russian, Format: DjVu) http://webchess.ru/ebook/38.html

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