chess-The Oxford Companion to Chess - First Edition by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld

elecdcal engineer. Ailhough he mmposes problcms
hc is bctrer knownforhisstudies.forsbich he
olten discoveB bold nce idcas rcqunine a complex
slruct u re ol many pieces and pawn s. S uch compositions
hale been caUed cbess skyscraper!. He
shared rilh ,.rD.RxrN the second I,SSR \tldvcomposins
championship (l9a?-8) and won rie
sevenrh (1962 .4)outrighr. Hepublhhcd 108ol his
studies in lzbrannie E utli(t9s8). (see poiroNAl
XOSENKOV. VSFV(I,oD TIKHONOVICH
(1930- J. Inlonadonal Coriespondence chess
Grandmaster(1979).SoviclplaycrNhotookthird
place afte. soH and z^coxovsKyin the sth world
Crrespondence Chess Championship, 1975 9.
KOSIIa! BORIS (1887 i963), International
Grandnaster (1950), a scrbian who was a
proiessional playerlormosr oI his life. He learncd
chcss at lhc ag. ol 16 and obrained practice ar
Vienna and Budapest whilc hc was a sludent. An
excellent tingunl, hebegantraveUing in lql0whcn
he wcflt to livc in Colog.e where he defeated
MiRss,{LL (+r=2) and r.roNlARDr (+3=1 1) in
mitch play. Moving on to Sourh Amcrica in 1913
and ftom thcrc ro the USA. where he visitcd
alnost evert slatc. hc carned a livelihood bv
playing natcbes against Iocal cbampions and giving
disDlays. His speciality *as sinultaneous blindlbld
chessandononco@asion- ar NewYork in 1916. he
s@red +19=1 in about six hours, challing ireely
silh specralors at the same rime. Hc sctrled for a
timc in Gary. Indiana,sbeie tbeschoolfriend$ho
hadtaughthim.hesfoundhim a jobinabank His
lounanentcareer in th€ US,{ ircluded Nev York
1916, ChicaSo 1918 (where he von thc western
championship). andNeN York 1918 whenhe camc
seond (+6=6) after.ApABrANCA. Ar Halana in
the spring oI 1919 he ptaycd a nalch wnh
Capablanca andlon everyoneolthe livc games, !
result thar cndcd his inbnion for the hiShcst
honours but did not crush hissriril A6o.thorso
tatcr (osti6 ieturned 10Europe and continued his
traveh. which in.luded, w.rrd nn,rf.om 192.1r.
1926 when he ptaycd in China, lndia, and maDy
olher counlies. Subsequenll], his ches career
includcd four Olympirds lrom 192? ro l9l7 (he
plaved lorYugoslavia) and roumanent licrories ar
Trendiansk€ Tepli.e 1928 (+6:a l) and also at
Ljubljana 1938 when he.ame ahcad olszAB6 nd
rARr{(owER. Kosria nade his last bow in a
veierans' tournamenl, Zunch 1962i hetiedforfi isr
prize witb cRor, ai 58lhc vomsest ompetitor.
KOTOV. ALEXANDER ALEXANDROVIcH
(l9rl-81), lnremadon.l Grandnaster (1s50). Ir
ternational Arbitcr (195r) Kotov nade hn name
qhen pl.ying in hn firsl USSR Champiooship,
L€.ingrad 1939 He and BonrNNr(joinily hcld drc
lead when lhcy met in rhe Iast round and the
crowds thar gatbered to $atch rh. DrroNsrRArroN
Bo^RD oulside lhc tlaying hall brought lr.tlic to a
halt. Kotovtosl, andlooksecondprizc. Already he
was knoNn ior his abihy to develop powcrful
altacks against ihc cn.my king, the cbieicbaracte.
DurinA rbe Secodd World Warhe so.kedasan
cngineer in a tactory at Moscos. He Non the cit!
championship 1941, and camc $nd (+10=1 4)
equal wnh ulrEN1x^L aiier sMyslov and uorr-s-
L{vsn in the Moscow lournament 1942. His best
iournamcnl rcsults came soon atler tbetr.r: Parn!
1917, second (+6=6-l) aftcr (.Rrsi interzonal
tournament. Sallsjobaden 1948, aboul calcgory
14, fourrh (+5=13 1)i USSR Championship
1948,68r equal wiih BRoNsrrrN-tncy shared lhe
iitle: USSR Chanpionship 19,19. about calegory
12. nfth (+8=7 .1) equal with Boleslavsky and
FURMANi Candidates lournament- Budapest 1950,
calegory 16, sixlh (+5=7-6)i intcponal, Salh
j.baden 1952.6rst (+r:l=7), rhree poinrs ahcadof
tbe lield: Caddidates roumamenr, NeuhauscD
zurich 1953, caresory 16, sixd (+8=i2 8).
Kotov bccamc onc olthcworld\ besr ten plales
by theseachievements, but evenbclorc tnc lastoi
tbem be had begun to chanee the dnection ol his
.arcci, wriling books and arricles on the game and
taking part in organizalion Hecondnued to play,
compeling in the naiional championship lbr $e
ninrh and lan time in 1958.
Hc srole lhe conprehensile tso volume work
Shakhmatnoe Nan di. Al.khira (195!8) contain
ine biograpby and :172 games. a.d made r
shoGnedversion with 75 games forpublication in
Lnglish. Alera tlet ALkhine (1q75). Hn Iditrr'
Mlshldila Shakh atntu (19?0) sas published in
English xs Think Like a Grundnoeet 11911 | scc
bclow) lnd he wrole an equalll successlul sequel.
Ptd! Likc a Crahd dn.r (1978). Korov yas
.o aurhor Nnh YUDovrG olSotdskatd Shtkhnnt
tur4.thtrtu (1951)j rhe seond edition (1955) sas
rcvi;d and banslated into nany laneuages, in
EnElhh as Ih. Satiet S.hool of Ches {195AJ
Kobv also published acoUection olhis oan ganes
/zrra,,ye Prrrii (1962). (See wEAhrss).
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