The USSR personal chess composition championship is the largest competition in the USSR for individual compilers of chess problems and etudes .
The first personal championship (" All-Union Championship ") was held in 1929 . Since 1947, competitions have been held regularly, usually in 3 stages: Stage 1 - qualifying competitions (contests, matches, tournaments, republican championships), the winners of which together with the finalists of the previous championship make up the semi-final; 2nd stage - semifinal; 3rd - final.
Championships were held in 4 sections: two-way , three-way , multi-stage (except 1929, 1947-1948) and studies . Each section was a separate competition in which the winner and prize-winners were determined. Participants presented for evaluation a certain number of published compositions (for example, over the last 2-3 years). The unpublished (original) compositions also participated in the 1947 championship .
In the 1st championship points were not awarded, as one composition of each participant was selected in the final. In the rest of the championships, points (points) were awarded for tasks and studies selected in the final. Points were awarded in the 1st β 10th and 12th championships, and the 15-point system was used in the 11th and 13β19th. Winners were determined by the highest total points scored (points). With the equality of points (13-19th championships), places were determined by the compositions that received the highest number of points. For collective compositions, points in the first 12 championships were divided by the number of co-authors, in the 13-19th championships - they were fully counted to all participants who sent compositions. Those who took 1-3 places were awarded with diplomas and from 1965 - medals; the remaining participants in the finals, as well as the authors of the best compositions for each section, are awarded with diplomas of the USSR State Sports Committee (except for the 19th championship).
In the period from 1947 to 1989, 31 chess composers were officially awarded the title of USSR champion [1] :
- L. Loshinsky - 14 times,
- V. Rudenko - 10,
- G. Kasparyan , Y. Vladimirov - 6 each
- V. Chepizhny - 5,
- A. Gulyaev (Green) , D. Gurgenidze , V. Korolkov , N. Kralin , A. Kuzovkov and M. Liburkin - 2 each ,
- Yu. Bazlov , V. Vlasenko , V. Gebelt , A. Gurvich , F. Davidenko , L. Zagoruyko , L. Katznelson , I. Kisis , I. Kriheli , G. Lobodinsky , A. Lobusov , V. Melnichenko , G. Nadareishvili , V. Neidze , A. Nemtsov , O. Pervakov , A. Popandopulo , V. Popov, V. Savchenko and V. Yakimchik - 1 time each .
See also
- USSR Championships in Chess Composition
- USSR team championship in chess composition
Notes
- β The last (XIX) USSR personal championship was started in 1990 and ended in 1992, when the USSR, the USSR State Committee for Sport and the All-Union Chess Federation ceased to exist. Its results were subject to approval by the ministries, departments and chess federations of the states that were part of the former USSR.
Literature
- Chess: Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. A.E. Karpov . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1990. - S. 464-467, 606-607. - 624 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 5-85270-005-3 .
- XVIII USSR personal championship in chess composition // Chess in the USSR . - 1989. - No. 9 . - S. 25-28 . - ISSN 0132-0947 .
- Kuznetsov A.G. XIX USSR championship in chess composition. Who is who // Chess Bulletin . - 1992. - No. 5 . - S. 42-43 . - ISSN 0869-5229 .