Alexey Sokolsky

Alexei Pavlovich Sokolski (Russian Алексей Павлович Сокольский, scientific transliteration Aleksei Pavlovich Sokol'skij; born November 3, 1908 in Kangusch, Penza Governorate, † December 27, 1969 in Minsk ) was a Soviet chess master and theoretician.

Sokolski began his chess career in the 1930s: in 1935, he qualified for a second place in the RSFSR championship of the USSR Championship, for which he has qualified a total of four times. In 1937 he played in Leningrad a match against Alexander Ilyin - Schenewski 8.5 to 8.5 ( 6, -6, = 5) undecided. In 1938 he was awarded the title of Master of Sports of the USSR. After the Second World War won Sokolski, then residing in Lviv, twice the championship of Ukraine (1947 and 1948 ). After moving to Belarus he participated in many championships this Soviet Republic, 1958, he was runner-up. Sokolski was since 1945 's second coach and his friend and world championship candidate Isaac Boleslawski, which he seconded the candidates tournaments in 1950 and 1953.

In addition to his extensive opening theory work, the fruit of which were a number of important and translated into several languages, publications, Sokolski also dealt with the correspondence chess. In the first USSR Championship in correspondence chess, played from 1948 to 1951, he shared rank 2-4.

From Sokolski some chess problems and studies are known. In the first USSR team championship for chess composition 1956/57, he finished with the Belorussian team to 3rd place.

After Sokolski, an opening is named: 1.B2 - b4 (also known as Orang -utan opening ), also wear different types his name, for example, the Sokolski Attack in the Grünfeld Indian Defence: 1.d2 -d4 Ng8 - f6 2.c2 - c4 g7- g6 3.Sb1 - c3 d7 -d5 5.e2 -e4 4.c4xd5 Sf6xd5 Sd5xc3 6.b2xc3 Bf8 - g7 7.Lf1 - c4 c5 c7 - 8.Sg1 - e2 c5xd4 9. c3xd4 Sb8 - c6 10.Lc1 -e3 - g4 12.f2 0-0 11.0-0 Bc8 -f3 Nc6 - a5 13.Lc4 -d3 Bg4 - e6 14.d4 -d5 Lg7xa1 15.Dd1xa1.

His best historical Elo rating was 2639th This he achieved in April 1945.

Translated into German Works (selection)

  • The opening 1.B2 - b4, Chess archive, Hamburg 1964
  • Textbook of Chess Openings, Sports Verlag, Berlin 1965
  • Your first train, Franckh, Stuttgart, 1988 ( ISBN 3-440-05947-2 )
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