Victor Soultanbeieff

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Victor Soultanbeieff
Full name Victor Ivanovich Soultanbéieff
Country Flag of Russia Russia Flag of Belgium Belgium
Born November 11, 1895(1895-11-11)
Dnepropetrovsk, Russia
Died February 9, 1972 (aged 76)
Liège, Belgium

Victor Ivanovich Soultanbéieff (also spelled Sultanbajew, Sultanbaev, Sultanbeev, Sultanbejeff, Sultanbaieff, etc.) (11 November 1895 – 9 February 1972) was a Belgian chess master.

Born in Russia, he fled his country after the Bolshevik Revolution. He escaped to Turkey in 1920, and came to Belgium in 1922.[1] Soultanbeieff won the Belgian Chess Championship five times: in 1932 (jointly with Boruch Israel Dyner), 1934, 1943, 1957, and 1961.

He also took 4th at Ghent 1923 (BEL-ch, George Koltanowski won), took 5th at Brussels 1924 (Edgard Colle won), tied for 5-7th at Spa 1926 (Fritz Sämisch and George Alan Thomas won), took 2nd at Hastings 1926/27 (B tournament), took 2nd at Maastricht 1929 (Quadrangular), took 6th at Ramsgate 1929 (José Raúl Capablanca won), took 11th at Liége 1930 (Savielly Tartakower won), and won at Liége 1930 (Quadrangular).[2]

Soultanbeieff played for Belgium at first board in the 5th Chess Olympiad at Folkestone 1933.[3]

After World War II, he took 7th at Maastricht 1946 (Max Euwe won), took 9th at Zaanstreek 1946 (Euwe won),[4] tied for 5-8th at Baarn 1947 (Section A2, Tartakower won),[5] took 9th at Beverwijk 1950 (Jan Hein Donner won),[6] and tied for 3rd-4th at Dublin 1954 (Alberic O'Kelly de Galway won).[7]

Soultanbéieff was made an International Arbiter in 1964.[8]

He is the eponym of a chess opening, the Soultanbéieff Variation of the Slav Defense, which was introduced in the correspondence game Macht–Soultanbéieff, 1931–2: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 5.a4 e6.[9]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Victor Ivanovich Soultanbeieff, Schachblätter, retrieved 2008-05-09
  2. ^ Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01, retrieved 2008-05-09
  3. ^ 5th Chess Olympiad: Folkestone 1933, retrieved 2008-05-09
  4. ^ 1946, Roger Paige's Chess Site, retrieved 2008-05-09
  5. ^ 1947, Rogers Paige's Chess Sites, retrieved 2008-05-09
  6. ^ 1950, Roger Paige's Chess Site, retrieved 2008-05-09
  7. ^ Portret Albéric O’Kelly de Galway, retrieved 2008-05-09
  8. ^ Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McFarland, p. 400, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6 
  9. ^ Hooper, David & Whyld, Kenneth (1992), The Oxford Companion to Chess (2 ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 379, ISBN 0-19-280049-3 

[edit] Further reading

  • Soultanbéieff, V. (1974), Le maître de l'attaque : guide pratique du jeu des combinaison, Paris: Au Pion passé : Impensé Radical . (French)
  • Ajedrez, 1972, p. 310–311
  • British Chess Magazine, 1972, p. 216
  • Deutsche Schachzeitung, 1972, p. 138

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