Vasily Panov

Vasily Nikolayevich Panov ( born 1 November 1906 in Kozelsk; † January 13, 1973 in Moscow) was a Russian chess player, theoretician, author and journalist.

Successes as a player

Panov won the Moscow championship in 1929 and played in the same year a competition against Nikolai Grigoriev, which ended in a draw 6:6. In the following years Panov took five times in the final of the Soviet Cup finals (1935, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1948), but could never be placed in front of the field. His greatest success as a player was the tournament victory in the semifinals of the USSR championship in Kiev in 1938. FIDE awarded him in 1950 the title of International Master.

Panov as a theoretician, author and journalist

From 1942 to 1965 Panov was chess editor of Izvestia. He wrote biographies of Alekhine and Capablanca and 1957, together with Yakov Estrin, the best-selling in the sixties opening book of the Soviet Union, course Debjutow. Today's chess players is primarily known for the eponymous Panov Attack in the Caro- Kann Defence Panov.

Credentials

  • Vasily N. Panov: Sorok let za shakmatnoi DOSKOI. 1966 ( autobiography with 50 games).
  • Yakov Borisovich Estrin Vasily Panov. 1986 ( 80 games).
  • Chess player (Soviet Union)
  • Chess players
  • Nonfiction author (Chess )
  • Born in 1906
  • Died in 1973
  • Man
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