Aleksandr Fedorovich Ilyin-Zhenevsky (real surname Ilyin, the second part of the surname was taken at the place of political emigration; 1894-1941) - Soviet chess player, USSR master of sports since 1925, theorist, writer, journalist and an outstanding organizer of chess life in Russia and the USSR [1 ] . Party leader, member of the underground Bolshevik movement, participant in the storming of the Winter Palace .
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Biography
Alexander Ilyin was born on November 16 (28), 1894 in St. Petersburg in the noble family of Admiral Fyodor Ilyin [2] . His brother F. F. Raskolnikov (Ilyin) was also a famous revolutionary, party and statesman.
In his youth, he became interested in chess and participated in St. Petersburg competitions. Being in political emigration in Switzerland (as a member of the Bolshevik party) since 1912, he won the championship of Geneva in 1914. In the same year he returned to Russia and participated in the First World War , was gassed, shell-shocked . Ilyin-Geneva had to study chess twice - in childhood and after a heavy shell-shock received at the front, after which he forgot how chess pieces go [3] .
Since 1916 he served as an officer in the flamethrower-chemical battalion, stationed in Petrograd . He took part in the Russian revolutions of 1917 [4] .
In 1920, being the commissar of the Central Administration of Vsevobuch, he organized the All-Russian Chess Olympiad in Moscow, which became the first championship of Soviet Russia. Sam participated in it, taking 9-10 places. In 1921, at the diplomatic service, he was consul in Libau , Latvia . He participated in seven championships of the USSR, twice was the champion of Leningrad (1926 and 1929), won the championship of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions (1927) and shared the 1-2 place in the championship of the Caucasus (1932). In the First Moscow International Tournament of 1925, he took 9-10th places and inflicted a sensational defeat on November 18 to world champion Capablanca. This victory introduced him to the number of members of the symbolic club of winners of world champions Mikhail Chigorin .
The author of several books. Among them are vivid sketches of the participants of the Moscow International Tournament of 1925 - Lasker and Capablanca (Moscow, 1926), written in the form of "Participant's Diary". Autobiographical "Notes of the Soviet master" (Leningrad, 1929) and the book "Match Alekhine - Capablanca" (Leningrad, 1927).
As a journalist proved himself, being the editor-in-chief of the magazines “Chess Pieces” (Leningrad, 1925-1930) and “Chess in the USSR” (Moscow, 1936-1937).
During the evacuation from Leningrad, he died on September 3, 1941 in New Ladoga during a raid by German aviation. He was buried in New Ladoga at the fraternal memorial cemetery.
Since 1988, the city of Novaya Ladoga annually hosts the A.F. Ilyin-Geneva Memorial [5] .
The name in the Dutch defense is named after Ilyin-Geneva.
Athletic Results
| Year | City | Competition | + | - | = | Result | A place |
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| 1914 | Geneva | Championship of Geneva | one | ||||
| 1917 | Petrograd | Tournament of the Petrograd Chess Meeting | |||||
| 1920 | Moscow | All-Russian Chess Olympiad | five | 6 | 2 | 7 from 15 | 9-10 |
| Moscow | Championship of Moscow | 3 out of 12 | 7 [6] | ||||
| 1922 | Liepaja | Championship Liepaja | |||||
| Petrograd | Championship of Petrograd | ||||||
| Petrograd | Match Petrograd - Moscow (3rd board, against P. A. Romanovsky ) | one | 0 | one | 1½ of 2 | ||
| 1922/23 | Moscow | Championship of Moscow | 6 out of 10 | 3-5 | |||
| 1923 | Petrograd | 2nd USSR Championship | 3 | four | five | 5½ out of 12 | 7-8 |
| 1924 | Leningrad | Tournament I category | |||||
| Leningrad | Championship of Leningrad | 4 out of 10 | 4 [7] | ||||
| Moscow | 3rd USSR Championship | four | 7 | 6 | 7 from 17 | 13 | |
| 1925 | Leningrad | “Tournament of 10” ( E. D. Bogolyubov and 9 Leningrad chess players) | 2 | 3 | four | 4 from 9 | five |
| Leningrad | Championship of Leningrad | 8½ out of 11 | 1-4 | ||||
| Leningrad | 4th USSR Championship | 7 | four | eight | 11 of 19 [8] | 6-8 | |
| Leningrad | Match with Ya. G. Rokhlin (qualification, for the title of master) | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4: 4 | ||
| Moscow | International tournament | 7 | 6 | 7 | 10½ out of 20 | 9-10 | |
| 1926 | Moscow | Match Moscow - Leningrad (3rd board, against V. I. Nenarokov ) | one | one | 0 | 1 from 2 | |
| Leningrad | Team Championship of Leningrad Trade Unions | ||||||
| Leningrad | Championship of Leningrad | 6 | 0 | 3 | 7½ out of 9 | one | |
| Leningrad | Championship of the North-Western region | five | 0 | five | 7½ out of 10 | 2 [7] | |
| Stockholm | Match Stockholm - Leningrad (1st board, against G. Nyholm ) | one | 0 | one | 1½ of 2 | ||
| 1927 | Moscow | Championship of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions | |||||
| Berlin | I Congress of the Shakhintern | five | 0 | four | 7 out of 9 | one | |
| Berlin | Shakhintern team championship (USSR team, 1st board) | champion team | |||||
| Moscow | 5th USSR Championship | 7 | 7 | 6 | 10 from 20 | 9 | |
| 1928 | Leningrad | Championship of Leningrad | 6 | 3 | 6 | 9 from 15 | five |
| 1929 | Leningrad | Championship of Leningrad | five | one | one | 5½ out of 7 | one |
| Berlin | The match the working team of Berlin - the national team of the railway workers of Leningrad (against Chakh) | one | |||||
| Odessa | 6th USSR Championship (quarter-final tournament, group No. 1) | 2 | one | five | 4½ out of 8 | 3-4 [9] | |
| 1929/30 | Leningrad | Match with V.V. Ragozin (qualification, for the title of master) | 2 | four | four | 4: 6 | |
| 1930 | Leningrad | Tournament of Leningrad Masters | 5½ out of 8 | 2 | |||
| Leningrad | Match Leningrad - Moscow Rabbros union (against A. S. Sergeev ) | one | |||||
| Leningrad | Match the national team of Leningrad - the national team of Leningrad universities (against M. M. Botvinnik ) | 0 | one | 0 | 0 out of 1 | ||
| 1931 | Moscow | Semifinal of the 7th USSR Championship | |||||
| Moscow | 7th USSR Championship | 7 | 7 | 3 | 8½ out of 17 | 10-12 | |
| 1932 | Leningrad | Championship of Leningrad | four | 3 | four | 6 from 11 | 3-5 |
| 1932/33 | Leningrad | Tournament of Leningrad Masters (in the House of Scientists) | 5½ out of 10 | 2-3 [7] | |||
| 1933 | Leningrad | Championship of the Leningrad gubbotdel rabbrosa | |||||
| Leningrad | Tournament of Leningrad Masters | 7½ of 13 | 5-6 | ||||
| 1934/35 | Leningrad | 9th USSR Championship | 6 | eleven | 2 | 7 from 19 | 18-19 |
| 1936 | Leningrad | Championship of Leningrad | 7 | 3 | four | 9 from 14 | 3 [10] |
| Leningrad | Masters Qualifying Tournament (for the 10th USSR Championship) | ||||||
| 1936/37 | Leningrad | Match with A.P. Sokolsky (qualification, for the title of master) | four | four | 9 | 8½: 8½ | |
| 1937 | Tbilisi | 10th USSR Championship | 3 | 7 | 9 | 7½ of 19 | 16-18 |
| Leningrad | International tournament (as part of the tour of R. Fine ) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1½ out of 5 | 6 | |
| Leningrad | Match Leningrad - Moscow (against N. M. Zubarev ) | one | 0 | one | 1½ of 2 | ||
| 1937/1938 | Leningrad | Championship of Leningrad | 7 | five | 3 | 8½ out of 15 | five |
| 1938 | Leningrad | Semifinal of the 11th USSR Championship | 3 | eight | 6 | 6 from 17 | 15-16 |
| Leningrad | Championship of Leningrad | one | 3 | 9 | 5½ out of 13 | ten | |
| 1939 | Leningrad | Championship of Leningrad | 6 | 3 | 6 | 9 from 15 | 3-6 |
| 1940 | Leningrad | Leningrad team championship | |||||
| Leningrad | Tournament of four chess players | ||||||
| 1941 | Rostov-on-Don | Semifinal of the 13th USSR Championship (group I) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 out of 6 | [eleven] |
Notes
- ↑ Ilyin-Geneva Alexander Fedorovich Archived copy of September 27, 2007 on the Wayback Machine
- ↑ The ghostly shadows of a chess story . Tatyana Morozova
- ↑ A. F. Ilyin-Geneva: the life path of a public figure, officer, chess player - Articles - “Volkhov Lights”. Weekly newspaper of the Volkhov region
- ↑ A.F. Ilyin-Geneva , From February to the seizure of power. //. Surf (Leningrad Istpart). Leningrad. 1927 189 p.
- ↑ Glezerov, S. In Novaya Ladoga remember Ilyin-Geneva . News (December 14, 2006). Date of treatment June 8, 2010. Archived on February 20, 2012.
- ↑ 7 participants played in 2 rounds
- ↑ 1 2 3 6 participants played in 2 circles
- ↑ Including a point from S. N. Freiman who left the tournament
- ↑ In the coefficient did not go to the semifinals
- ↑ 8 participants played in 2 rounds
- ↑ Tournament interrupted due to the outbreak of war
Literature
- Ilyin-Genevsky A.F. From February to the seizure of power // Surf (Leningrad Istpart). - L., 1927. - 189 p.
- Ilyin-Geneva A.F. July 1917. - M .; L .: State. ed., 1927. - 45 p. - 10,000 copies.
- Ilyin-Geneva A.F. Bolsheviks in power: Memoirs of 1918 / A.F. Ilyin-Geneva; Sep. Leningra. region the committee of the CPSU (b) for the study of the history of the October Revolution and the CPSU (b). Leningra. Oblistpart .. - L .: Surf (type. Printing House of the State Publishing House), 1929. - 196 p.
- Ilyin-Zhenevsky AF The Bolsheviks in Power // 1929. New Park.
- Chess Dictionary / Ch. ed. L. Ya. Abramov ; comp. G. M. Geyler . - M .: Physical education and sport , 1964. - S. 241-242. - 120,000 copies.
- Chess: Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. A.E. Karpov . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1990. - S. 135-136. - 624 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 5-85270-005-3 .
- Morozov S. A. A. F. Ilyin-Geneva - revolutionary, historian, chess player, writer // History of St. Petersburg. - 2005. - No. 5 (27). - S. 7-11.
- Morozov S. A. A. F. Ilyin-Geneva - public figure, historian, chess player. - SPb .; New Ladoga, 2006.
Links
- The games of Alexander Ilyin-Geneva in the database
- Personal card of Alexander Ilyin-Geneva at 365chess.com