Vladimir Zagorovsky
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| Full name | Vladimir Pavlovich Zagorovsky |
| Born | 29 June 1925 |
| Died | 6 November 1994 (aged 69) Voronezh, Russia |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Russia |
| Title | International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1965) |
| ICCF World Champion | 1962–1965 |
| FIDE rating | 2370 (July 1972) |
| ICCF rating | 2452 (July 1996) |
| ICCF peak rating | 2590 (July 1991) |
Vladimir Pavlovich Zagorovsky (Russian: Влади́мир Па́влович Загоро́вский; 29 June 1925, Voronezh, Russia, formerly USSR – 6 November 1994, Voronezh, Russia) was a Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess. He is most famous for being the fourth ICCF World Champion between 1962 and 1965.[1] He won the 1952 Moscow City Championship and finished 2nd in the 1951 championship. In the July 1972 FIDE rating list he had an over the board rating of 2370.[2] His brother Mikhail Zagorovsky was also a chess master.
Selected titles
[edit]- 1948: Master of Sports of the USSR (chess)[3]
- 1991: Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (chess)
Books
[edit]- Zagororovsky, Vladimir (1982). Romantic Chess Openings. ISBN 0713436239. OCLC 9972859.
Notes and references
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Hopper-Whyld, 1987, pp. 19, 126, 340.
- ^ Searching: "Zagorovsky, Vladimir". OlimpBase.
- ^ Karpov 1990, p. 234.
References
[edit]- Hooper, David; Whyld, Kenneth (1987) [1984]. The Oxford Companion to Chess. Oxford University Press. p. 384. ISBN 0192819860. OCLC 1158758799.
- Karpov, Anatoly Yevgenyevich, ed. (1990). "1948: В. Загоровский" [1948: V. Zagorovsky] (PDF). Шахматы: Энциклопедический Словарь (Russian Chess Encyclopedia and Biographical Dictionary) (in Russian). Moscow: Great Soviet Encyclopedia. ISBN 5852700053. OCLC 606026618.
- "FIDE Rating List: July 1972". OlimpBase – The Encyclopedia of Team Chess. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
External links
[edit]- Vladimir Zagorovsky player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Vladimir Zagorovsky player details at ICCF
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