Veniamin Sozin

Veniamin Innokentjewitsch Sosin (Russian Вениамин Иннокентьевич Созин, scientific transliteration Veniamin Sozin Innokent'evič; * 1896, † 1956 in Leningrad) was a Soviet chess master and a renowned theorist.

Sosin 1924 took part in the 3rd USSR championship, where he finished ninth and won the title. Later he even participated in the fourth, sixth and seventh championship of the Soviet Union. Sosin initially lived in Novgorod, and later in Leningrad, where he celebrated some tournament success in the 1930s: he had his best finish in Leningrad in 1935, when he took second place. Sosins particular strength, however, was not in the tournament, but in the opening analysis: He examined very profound named after him Sosin - attack in the Sicilian Defence: 1.e2 -e4 c7 - c5 2.Sg1 -f3 Sb8 - c8 3.d2 - d4 c5xd4 4.Sf3xd4 Ng8 - f6 5.Sb1 - c3 d7 d6 6.Lf1 - c4, which was further developed in the 1950s by Bobby Fischer.

Sosin was for decades an editor in the theory part of the Soviet chess magazine " Vestnik Schachmatnyj " in which he published many of his studies. He also issued two chess books, including " combinations and traps ", which also appeared in German and English translation.

Works

• Combinations and traps. Curt Ronniger, Leipzig 1935 ( local spelling: W. J. Ssosin ), originally Kombinacji i lowuschki, Leningrad 1929 (in Russian )
• Schto kashdyj dolshen SNAT whether endspilje [What everyone should know about the final ], Moscow - Leningrad, 1931 ( in Russian)