Vitaly Tseshkovsky

Vitaly Valeryevich Zeschkowski (Russian Виталий Валерьевич Цешковский, scientific transliteration Vitalij Valerjevič Ceškovskij; born September 25, 1944 in Omsk, † December 24, 2011 in Krasnodar ) was a Russian chess player.

Life

Zeschkowski came from a well-known Polish noble family (Polish spelling: Cieszkowski ) and arrived in Siberia to the world. In 1969 he took part for the USSR at the Student World Team Chess Championship in 1972, he won the championship of the RSFSR. In 1973 he became International Champion, two years later, Grand Master. 1978 ( together with Mikhail Tal ) and 1986 he won the USSR championship, curiously enough, he came in the next championships last.

He took for the USSR participated in the Chess Olympiad in 1986 in Dubai and won the team gold medal. He himself took 2.5 points from 5 games at second reserve board. It was his only Olympic participation.

In the course of his career Zeschkowski won numerous tournament victories, including Bucharest, 1974, Leipzig 1975, Dubna, 1976, Yerevan, 1980, Banja Luka, 1981, Sochi 1981 and Minsk 1982. 1975 he finished the zone tournament in Vilnius the split 1st to 4th place and sat in the subsequent random battles to the courts for the World Cup qualifiers by: 1976 he participated in the inter-zonal tournament in Manila and had a long time about the opportunities on one of the qualifying spots for the candidates Tournament, he finally missed but just with his fourth place. Interzonal in Riga in 1979 Zeschkowski shared space 8 to 10, 2004, he qualified for the Super Final of the championship of Russia, which was won by former world champion Garry Kasparov. 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 won Zeschkowski the seniors championship of Russia. 2009 Rogaska Slatina and 2010 in Thessaloniki, he won the Senior Championship, 2008, he was in Davos European vice- champion in the senior.

Zeschkowski also worked as a coach. He was responsible for overseeing other Vugar Gashimov Vladimir Kramnik and.

On December 24, 2011 Zeschkowski participated in a chess tournament in Krasnodar, where he collapsed during his first round game. He died at the age of 67 years.