Alexey Selezniev

Alexei Sergeyevich Seleznev (Russian Алексей Сергеевич Селезнёв, scientific transliteration Aleksej Sergeevič Seleznev, also French: Alex Selesnev; * 1888 in Tambov, † June 1967 in Bordeaux) was a French chess master and composer study of Russian origin.

Chess players

Selesnjows active season during the years 1913 to 1927, when he participated in many major chess tournaments. It was 1919 in a tournament in Berlin second behind Efim Bogolyubov, but landed in front of Richard Réti and Rudolf Spielmann. In the spring of 1920, he won a tournament of the Berlin Chess Club before Friedrich Sämisch. Good success he achieved in Gothenburg in 1920, Ostrava 1923 in Merano 1924. He participated in three USSR championships (1924, 1925 and 1927), in part, his best result he had in 1924, when he finished sixth. In 1927, he took out of competition No. 1 on the Ukrainian championship.

Seleznev, who was interned during the international tournament in Mannheim in 1914 due to the outbreak of World War I in Triberg performed with Alexander Alekhine, Efim Bogolyubov and Ilya Rabinovich, spent many years in Germany and played several competitions: 1916 in Triberg against Hans Fahrni 3-3 ( 2, -2, = 2), in 1917 at the same place against Efim Bogolyubov 3.5-4.5 ( 2, -3, = 3), in Berlin in 1920 against Curt von Bardeleben 4-2 ( 2, -0 = 4), in Berlin in 1921 against Richard Teichmann 1.5-0.5 ( 1, -0, = 1).

Seleznev 1924 returned back to the Soviet Union. In the late 1920s he ended his chess career and lived from 1930 to 1942 in Stalino. During the German occupation he worked as an interpreter in the municipal office. With the advance of the Red Army, he was afraid that he is accused of collaborating and sat with support from Bogolyubov first to Triberg. Later he settled in France. In addition to tournament chess chess composition was his passion. He published until the 1950s witty studies.

His best historical Elo rating was 2619th This he reached in January 1920.

Studies

Solution: 1 Lf2 - h4 X attack Th2xh4 2 Dh1xh4 Dh8xh4 ( 2 d7 D8D? Dh8xd8 Dh1xh4 3 4 Kf6xe6 Dh4xd8 patt ) 3 d7 d8l ! Under transformation, spit ( 3 d7 D8D? Kf6xg6 4 Dd8xh4 shell, echo) wins the lady on h4.

Another interesting study is Selesnjows to see castling in chess composition.

Works

• Alexei Sergeyevich Seleznev: 100 schachmatnych etjudow, Fiskultura i sport, Moscow, Leningrad, 1940 ( in Russian)