Georgy Borisenko
| Georgy Borisenko | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Georgy Konstantinovich Borisenko |
| Country | USSR |
| Born | May 25, 1922 Chuhuiv, USSR |
| Died | December 3, 2012 (aged 90) Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
| Title | Russian Correspondence Grandmaster |
| Peak rating | 2440 (May 1974)[1] |
Georgy Konstantinovich Borisenko (May 25, 1922 — December 3, 2012) was a Soviet correspondence chess grandmaster and chess theoretician.[2] Among the players he trained were Nona Gaprindashvili, Valentina Borisenko (who was also his wife),[2] Viktor Korchnoi, Mark Taimanov,[3] and Timur Gareyev.[2] He became a Russian Master of Sport in 1950 and a Russian Correspondence Grandmaster in 1966. He won the USSR Correspondence Championship twice, in 1957 and 1962, and came in second in 1965.[3] One of his best-known games was played from 1960 to 1963 against Anatoly Rubezov, and is included in multiple anthologies of brilliant chess games.[4] In 1973, David Bronstein described Borisenko as "one of our greatest theoretical experts."[5] In Russia, the Breyer Variation of the Ruy Lopez is known as the "Borisenko-Furman" variation because Borisenko and Semyon Furman were central in bringing it into use in the 1950s.[6] Another line of the Closed Ruy Lopez is also named after him; specifically, the line in the Chigorin Variation which goes 9...Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Nc6.[7][8] His wife Valentina Borisenko was also a chess player and held a Candidate Master title.
References
[edit]- ^ "Georgy K. Borisenko Ratings". OlimpBase. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ^ a b c "Obituary - GM Georgy Borisenko". FIDE. 4 December 2012. Archived from the original on 30 July 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ^ a b "Happy birthday from TRG!". FIDE Trainers' Commission. 16 August 2016. Archived from the original on 29 July 2013. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ^ "Chess". The Scotsman. 30 December 2004. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ^ Bronstein, David (1973). 200 Open Games. Courier Corporation. p. 147.
- ^ Sosenko, Genna (2014). Russian Silhouettes. New In Chess. p. 138.
- ^ Engqvist, Thomas (2016). Stein: Move by Move. Everyman Chess (published 7 March 2016). Retrieved 20 February 2017.
- ^ Byrne, Robert (1988-10-02). "Concessions After the Preliminary Fumble". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
External links
[edit]- Georgy Borisenko player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Georgy Konstantinovich Borisenko player details at ICCF