Nikolay Novotelnov
Nikolai Alexandrovich Nowotelnow (Russian Николай Александрович Новотельнов; * 1 Dezemberjul / December 14 1911greg in Saint Petersburg, .. † December 30, 2006 ) was a Soviet chess player.
Life
Nowotelnow drew attention to himself as a chess player at the Leningrad competitions in the 1930s. He won the end of 1933 a game against Salo Flohr in the simultaneous game, in April 1936, he was fifth behind Pyotr Dubinin, Dmitri Rowner and other participants in one of three groups at the All - Union Savitsky Memorial Tournament for players of the first category. Before the war he bore the title of champion candidate. In the Leningrad City Championship 1941, he was with 4 ½ points from 6 to # 1 before the tournament in late December had to be canceled. Then he did military service and lived for several years in Grozny. In the semi final of the Soviet Cup in 1945 in Baku, he shared the fourth place with Vitaly Tschechower, and thus met his Master norm. In the summer of 1947, he took with 11 ½ points out of 13 to win the Russian Championship in Kuibyshev and referred Alexei Iwaschin and Rashid Neschmetdinow on the 2nd and 3rd place
In the same year he played with the international Chigorin Memorial in Moscow and came up with 9 points out of 15 ( 4 ½ out of 6 against foreign participants) in the final table on a shared sixth place. His game against Isaac Boleslawski was awarded the prize for contribution to opening theory. In tournament report Pyotr Romanovsky Nowotelnow praised for his trenchant, for all players dangerous style. Due to its success Nowotelnow in 1951 awarded the title of International Master.
In 1950, he won tournaments in Krasnodar and Chelyabinsk. The next year he won the semi-final of the Championship of the USSR in Baku, where he was able to let players like Mark Taimanov, Ratmir Cholmow, Semyon Furman behind. In the star-studded finale, which took place in Moscow in the winter of 1951, he had to settle for second to last place. Before this tournament, he won the Russian selection, the Soviet team championship in 1951 in Tbilisi. In 1952 he was third with Spartak Cup team when the sports federations of the USSR in Odessa. In the 1960s, he retired from tournament chess. With its historical Elo rating of 2655 he was in 1948 ranked 20th in the world rankings. In the Soviet Ranking (as of January 1950), he finished 33rd
Nowotelnow holds a degree in economics. He worked as a chess teacher and functionary, as secretary of the Leningrad chess section and head of the chess section in Grozny. In the newspapers Leningradskaya Pravda and Na Strasche Rodiny he edited the chess section. With his book Na Gornoi trope he has also appeared as a poet.
Final analysis
The diagram shows the position of the aborted match between Anatoly Volovich and Vladimir Ljawdanski in the match Moscow - Leningrad, 1968 At this time it was 39 ½. 39 ½, but the Chief Judge Lew Polugajewski refused to evaluate the game, as the final lady and farmer has not been adequately studied against Dame by theorists. There was a lively exchange of views in the Soviet press. Georgi Lissizyn said in 64, to have found a forced win for Black. He disagreed Nowotelnow with a detailed, but not quite correct analysis, which was published in English translation in 1971 in the British Chess Magazine. Vadim Faibissowitsch took up the subject, the whole was then summarized by Yuri Averbakh in his book. According to a study by Ken Thompson (Computer Belle), which appeared in the fourth volume of the Encyclopaedia of Chess Endings in 1989, the game should end in a draw.
Works
- Nikolai Nowotelnow: Well gornoi trope: sbornik stichow. Checheno - Inguschskoje knischnoje isd where, Grozny 1958. (Russian)
- Nikolai Nowotelnow: Snakomtes: schachmaty. 2 isdanije, Fiskultura i sport, Moscow 1981. (Russian)