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

174 KRYLENKO
and sochi 1973, lhird (+l=12) equalNirhsMErsL
atier rAr. and Spassky. In 1976 Krogius srore a
book o. lhe psychology ol che$ advising .hes
nasres how rhey shonld prepa.e themselves for
@opctiti,c play, and a ch e to test his theories
came when be was appoinled ro assist Spassky in
rhe world chanpionship natch ol 1972. Spassky
Krugiuvsinagin So.hi 196? caralan Openins
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bilities oI Whiiet obtaining a draw by seli
sialcmatc. He also onposed orlhodox problems.
IIe publishcd lwo @llecdons of his studies, 150
Shakhmatulkh Ertudot (t925) and 250 lzbrun,
nlkh t-4tudov (1938) A Baliic Ccrman by hir1h,
he decidcd smc lime atter $e Firn Wodd War to
use the fo.enamcs L.onid lvanovich, although he
conlinuedonoccasionlorctainthcinitiah K. A. L.
He had 1wo b.otheB who were also composcn and
thcytoo Russianized ften names: Arvid L Kubbel
(188q-l94ll and Yevseny l. Kubbel (1894 1942).
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XRYI-ENKO, NIKOLAI VASTLYE\.ICH ( 1885
1918), Commissar for war in tnc fi$l Bohhevik
govemnent and later Commissarlor.rustice in lhe
USSR. Krylenko may have done nore than
anyonc chc lotopularizechess; asch.nnln oltbe
chesssection ofthc Allurion Council for Pnysic^l
Recreation he Bas Iargely responsible for pesuading
lhc Sovier govemnenl 10 sponsor the gane and
to organize the Mos.os intcrnational tourn.senls
oI 1925, 1935, and 1936. Such pose.tul surport
trco one ot the nost leared and reviled men in
Europe €nsurcd a mass intfest and led direcrl! to
the present st.englh ol Soviel chess.
Krylento, widely held to be responsible lor
Stalin\ purscs, himselldisippearedin one oltben
andwas executed. (Sin.e rhc dcatholSralin he has
been rehabihated.l He edned 6? for a time, srote
a boot on lhe Moscow tournanenl of 1935. and.
$ilh P. F. Nlkiforo!, ahoot on chess and drauEbts
KUBBEL. KARL ARTUR LEONID {1892,
19,12), Soviet conposer. chemicat engineer. He
and the.LArov brothers, lblloving in the wake ol
IRoirz(. initialed a pcriod oI Russian supremacy
in lhe a!1 oI study composingi he laid dos. his
'Solden rule'ol cconomy: to squeeze dut oltbe
nalerial all its bidden possibililics- ln panicular,
at a lime shen rhe nipulation -Whirc ro play and
vin' predonrinared. Kubbel invesrisated ihc possi-
A srudy by K. A. L Ktbbel.l5a shokhhahrkh
Etludov,1925.1.16Kcn z dxc7 Kxc7 I ext6 Kd6
4 Kg2 Ke6 5 f5+ exl5 6Kxg3Nll+ 7Kf4Kxf6
A. Barunn and O. K. Kubbe],,I.btMnie Zodnchi
L. t. Kubbetta (1958) conrains more than 600
problems. T. C. whi$orth, ac,"id (zbbelr
Ches Endqama Srudi.s (198a) conrains 328 cx
KtlPCHn, ABRAHAM (1892 i970). leading
American player in rhe 1920s. a@ountant. Born ir
Bresrlnovsk. hc cmigratcd to rhc (is,\ wilh hh
iamily in 1903. Apan Ircn club elenls ne Non
the Manhartan Chess Club cbanpiorship dine
limcs ouriehr and oncc joiilly-Kupchik cane
nd in some hall-dozcn minor iournamcnts ir rnc
USA, notably ar Lake Hoparcong 1923 Nhen he
shared 6rs1 prize with MAnsEAlL. ln shonger
events Kupchik achicvcd nh bcsl pcrformancc al
Lake Hopatcong 1926, a double{ound conrest oI
livepl.yers;he took second place (+3=l 1) alter
.ApaBhN.A ahcadoI {R6.7ya.d MARsnArr On
tbe same ocasion he won a lighhing rournament
ahead ol Capahlanca. ln 19as Krpchik began .
match against C. roRRr. hoping iI hc won to bc
invited lo pla, in lhe Baden-BadeD lournament
thatye.r,bul whenne*scanelhalTorehad bee.
scl.ctcd rhc match was hro*en oll rhe sc.re
slandine +l =,1- l. At thc wa6as Olympiid 1915
Kupchik scored +6=8 on third board lor thc