Shahist

The chess player ( Ukrainian chess player, that is, the “chess player”) is the first chess-checkers publication in the Ukrainian language (the second, after “ 64 ”, is the publication in the history of the Soviet chess press). The newspaper was published in Kiev from October 5, 1936 to February 28, 1939 three times a month, in total 81 issues were issued.

The body of the committee for physical education and sports under the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR.

In the publication, along with Ukrainian chess players, chess players from Moscow, Leningrad and other union republics participated. Materials on drafts were also published.

The first sketches of the 12-year-old Zinovy ​​Tsirik , the future USSR champion in drafts composition and the 6-time USSR champion as a player appeared in the newspaper. Quote from his memoirs:

I was captivated by the beauty of studies and tasks. The love of the drafts endgame, etude intensified after I listened to a series of lectures by V. A. Sokov on the endings. I did not miss a single issue of the newspaper 64 or Shakhist. Sketches, combinations, tasks were solved everywhere - at home, on the way to school, and sometimes, to be honest, and in the lessons. In the competition for the decisions of the Shahist newspaper, he received the first prize in his life - pocket checkers, which he did not part with at the front either. And soon he composed his first sketch. It was published in the Shahist newspaper. The interest shown by the press was pleasant. “Zinovy ​​Tsirik is a student of 5th grade of the 44th school of metro Kharkov. You’re less than 12 rokiv, Ale Vin is no longer young, like a shashkist. Win is not just a long time ago in checkers, win know the theory of gris. Especially love etudes. Ridko is a kind of etude, which doesn’t come apart, but for the rest of the time I’ll store the etudes myself and finish, far from speaking, about the unlimited talent of the young man. ” For over 65 years (!) I have been keeping this newspaper clipping.