Fedor Bogatyrchuk

Fedor Parfen'evych Bogatyrchuk (Bogatirchuk, Bohatirchuk, Bogatyrtschuk, Bohatyrchuk, Bohatyrczuk) (in Russian : Фёдор Парфеньевич Богатырчук, Fiodor Parfen'evitch Bogatyrchuk; in Ukrainian : Федір Парфенович Богатирчук, Fedir Parfenovych Bohatyrchuk) (born 14 November 1892 in Kiev, Ukraine - died 4 September 1984, Ottawa, Canada) was a Ukrainian-Canadian chess master. He also was a doctor of medicine and political activist. Image File history File links Bogatyrchuk. ... Image File history File links Bogatyrchuk. ... November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 47 days remaining until the end of the year. ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Location Map of Ukraine with Kyiv highlighted. ... September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years). ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Motto: Advance Ottawa/Ottawa en avant Coordinates: Country Canada Province Ontario County Established 1850 as Bytown City Mayor Bob Chiarelli Governing body Ottawa City Council MPs / MPPs Members of Parliament (MPs) Mauril Bélanger (LPC), Paul Dewar (NDP), John Baird (CPC), Royal Galipeau (CPC), David McGuinty (LPC),Pierre Lemieux (CPC...

Biography

In 1911, Bogatyrchuk won, followed by Izbinski, Bogoljubow, etc., at Kiev. In February 1914, he lost an exhibition game against Jose Raul Capablanca at Kiev. In 1914, he took 3rd at Kiev. In July/August 1914, he tied for 6th–10th at Mannheim (Hauptturnier A). Bogatyrchuk, along with 10 other "Russian" players from the interrupted Mannheim tournament, was interned by Germany after the declaration of war against Russia. In September 1914, four of them (Alexander Alekhine, Bogatyrchuk, Saburov, and Koppelman) were freed and allowed to return home. José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (November 19, 1888 - March 8, 1942) was a famous Cuban chess player in the early to mid twentieth century. ... Alexander Alekhine Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine (sometimes spelled Aljechin or Alechin) (IPA: , Russian: Александр Александрович Алéхин) (October 31 or November 1, 1892 – March 24, 1946) was a chess master and a former World Chess Champion. ...

During the civil war, he was employed by a military hospital, and was a teacher of anatomy in Institute of physical education and sport in Kiev.

Bogatyrchuk played in six Soviet Union (USSR) championships: 1923, 1924, 1927, 1931, 1933, 1934. In July 1923, he tied for 3rd–5th at Petrograd (St Petersburg, Leningrad) at 2nd USSR Championship. In 1924, he took 2nd, behind Vilner, at Kiev (1st Ukrainian SSR ch.). In August–September 1924, he tied for 3rd–4th at Moscow (3rd USSR ch.). In December 1925, he took 11th of 21 at Moscow (1st it). The event was won by Efim Bogoljubow, followed by Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Frank Marshall, etc. It was the first government sponsored tournament. Efim Dmitriyevich Bogoljubov (1889 – 1952) was a leading Ukrainian chess master. ... Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player and mathematician, born at Berlinchen in Brandenburg (now Barlinek in Poland). ... Time Magazine, December 7, 1925 José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (November 19, 1888 – March 8, 1942) was a Cuban world-class chess player in the early to mid-twentieth century. ... This article is about the early 20th century chess champion. ...

In 1926, Bogatyrchuk wrote the first chess book "Szachy" (Shakhy, Шахи) in Ukrainian. In 1927, he won at Kiev. In October 1927, he tied for 1st–2nd with Peter Romanovsky at Moscow (5th USSR ch.). In 1929, he won at Kiev. In November 1931, he tied for 3rd–6th at Moscow (7th USSR ch.). In 1933, he won at Moscow (Quadrangular). In September 1933, he took 8th at Leningrad (8th USSR ch.). In December 1934 /January 1935, he tied for 3rd–4th at Leningrad (9th USSR ch.). In March 1935, he tied for 16th–17th at Moscow (2nd it). The event was won by Botvinnik and Flohr, but Bogatyrchuk beat Mikhail Botvinnik in their individual game. Following this game, it is reported that a head of the Soviet Chess organisation, Minister of Justice Krylenko approached Bogatyrchuk and said "You will never beat Botvinnik again!" That was indeed the case as Bogatyrchuk never played Botvinnik again. He scored (+3 =2 –0) against Botvinnik! 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik (IPA: ; Russian: ) (August 17, 1911 [O.S. August 4] - May 5, 1995) was a Jewish Russian International Grandmaster and long-time World Champion of chess. ... Nikolai Krylenko Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko (Russian: Николай Васильевич Крыленко) (May 2, 1885, Bekhteevo (Бехтеево), Smolensk region, Russian Empire – July 29, 1938, Moscow) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician. ...

In March 1936, he took 3rd at Kiev (8th UkrainSSR ch.). In July 1937, he won at Kiev (9th Ukraine SSR ch.). In 1938, he took 2nd at Kiev (USSR ch. semi-final), but did not play at 11th USSR Championship in 1939.

Being a radiologist and doctor of medical sciences in 1940, Bogatyrchuk was seconded to a German medical research facility when Kiev fell to the Germans in September 1941. During World War II he was a head of the Ukrainian Red Cross and the Institute of experimental medicine. When the Soviet army pushed the Germans from Kiev, Bogatyrchuk, together with his family migrated to Cracow, then Prague, in 1944. There he joined the Committee for Freedom of Peoples in Russia, an anti-Stalin, semi-military organisation headed by the Russian general Vlasov. He was also the leader of the Ukrainian National Council (Ukrainśka Narodna Rada). As a result of these activities, Bogatyrchuk was the number one "persona non grata" in Soviet Chess until the defection of Victor Korchnoi. Motto: none Voivodship Lesser Poland Municipal government Rada miasta Kraków Mayor Jacek Majchrowski Area 326,8 km² Population  - city  - urban  - density 757,500 (2004 est. ... Prague (Czech: Praha (IPA: ), see also other names) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ... General Andrey Vlasov General Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov (Russian: Андрей Андреевич Власов; alternative transliterations of his names appear as Andrei Andreievich and as Vlassov or (in German) Wlassow) (September 14 (September 1 O.S.), 1900 – August 2, 1946) was a Soviet Army General who later cooperated with Nazi Germany during World War II. // Early... Viktor Korchnoi (Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й) (born March 23, 1931) is sometimes reckoned to be the strongest chess player never to have been world champion. ...

In February 1944, he took 2nd, behind Efim Bogoljubow, at Radom (GG). In Spring 1944, he drew a match against Stepan Popel at Cracow (2 : 2). In May 1944 Bogatyrchuk played an 8-game training match against local players (Kottnauer, Pachman, Podgorny, Prucha, etc.) at Prague (+7 =1 –0). Efim Dmitriyevich Bogoljubov (1889 – 1952) was a leading Ukrainian chess master. ... Stepan (Stefan, Stephan, Stephen) Popel (Popiel) (born 15 August 1909 in Komarniki, Galicia, Austria-Hungary – died December 1987 in Fargo, North Dakota, USA). ...

At the end of WW II, Bogatyrchuk moved to a number of cities including Berlin and Potsdam, and finally ended up in the American controlled city of Bayreuth in May 1945. For a time he lived in Munich playing in German chess events under the name of 'Bogenhols' ('Bogenko') so as to avoid repatriation to the USSR. In 1946, he won, followed by Zemgalis, Wolfgang Unzicker, etc. at Regensburg (Klaus Junge Memorial). In February 1947, he took 3rd at Kirchheim-Teck. In September 1947, he took 4th at Stuttgart. Wolfgang Unzicker (26 June 1925 in Pirmasens – 20 April 2006 in Albufeira) was one of the strongest German chess grandmasters from 1945 to about 1970. ...

In 1948, Bohatirchuk emigrated to Canada and became a teacher in the University of Ottawa, author of many scientific studies and recollection books. At the congress of the Ukrainians federalists in Niagara Falls in 1952, he was elected Chairman of the association of the Ukrainian federalist Democrats and chief editor of the last press organs "Skhidnyak" and the "federalist Democrat". Author of many newspaper and periodical articles on the history of ODNR (Liberation Movement of Peoples of Russia) and books like "My living way with Vlasov and Manifesto of Prague" (San Francisco, 1978) (in Russian : Мой жизненный путь к Власову и Пражскому Манифесту, Moy zhiznenny put' k Vlasovu i Prazhskomu Manifestu). 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Tabaret Hall The University of Ottawa (also casually known as U of O or Ottawa U) is a research-intensive, non-denominational, international university. ... For other uses, see Niagara Falls (disambiguation). ...

Beside this, he played in three Canadian championships. In 1949, he took 2nd at Arvida. In 1951, he took 3rd at Vancouver. In 1955, he tied for 3rd–5th at Ottawa. Bohatirchuk also represented Canada at the 11th Chess Olympiad at Amsterdam 1954, playing board four (+7 =3 –5). Since 1954 he was a FIDE International Master. In his seventies he took up Correspondence chess, becoming Canadian Correspondence Chess Champion (1963, 1964) and playing 1st board for Canada at the Correspondence Chess Olympiad (1962-1965). Since 1967 he was ICCF International Master. Winners 2005 Pascal Charbonneau 2002 Pascal Charbonneau / Kevin Spraggett 2001 Alexandre Le Siège / Kevin Spraggett 1999 Alexandre Le Siège 1996 Kevin Spraggett 1995 Francois Leveille / Ron Livshits / Bryon Nickoloff 1994 Kevin Spraggett 1992 Alexandre Le Siège 1991 Lawrence Day 1989 Kevin Spraggett 1987 Igor V. Ivanov 1986... The Chess Olympiad is a chess event which has been officially organised by FIDE since 1927 and takes place in even years. ... The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world. ... The title International Master is awarded to outstanding chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. The title is open to both men and women. ... Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, usually through a correspondence chess server, through e-mail or by the postal system; less common methods which have been employed include fax and homing pigeon. ...

Notable chess games

• Alexander Ilyin-Zhenevsky vs Fedor Parfenovich Bohatirchuk, Moscow 1924, 3rd USSR ch, Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense, C62, 0-1
• Fedor Parfenovich Bohatirchuk vs Mikhail Botvinnik, Moscow 1927, 5th USSR ch, French Defense, Winawer Advance Variation, C17, 1-0
• Fedor Parfenovich Bohatirchuk vs Mikhail Botvinnik, Leningrad 1933, 8th USSR ch, Sicilian, Dragon, B72, 1-0
• Vsevolod Rauzer vs Fedor Parfenovich Bohatirchuk, Leningrad 1934, 9th USSR ch, Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense, Fianchetto Variation, C76, 0-1
• Fedor Parfenovich Bohatirchuk vs Mikhail Botvinnik, Moscow 1935, 2nd it, Four Knights, C49, 1-0
• Fedor Bohatirchuk vs Luděk Pachman, Prague 1944, Sicilian Defense, B95, 1-0
• Elmars Zemgalis vs Fedor Parfenovich Bohatirchuk, Regensburg 1946, Klaus Junge Memorial, English, A21, 0-1
• Povilas Vaitonis vs Fedor Parfenovich Bohatirchuk, Arvida 1949, CAN-ch, Grünfeld Defense, D93, 0-1
• Fedor Parfenovich Bohatirchuk vs Frank Ross Anderson, Vancouver 1951, CAN-ch, Bird's Opening, A03, 1-0
• Fedor Parfenovich Bohatirchuk vs Federico Norcia, Amsterdam 1954, 11th Olympiad, Ruy Lopez, Classical, C64, 1-0