Vladimir Savon

Volodymyr Sawon ( Ukr Володимир Савон ) ( born September 26, 1940 in Chernihiv, † 30 May, 2005 Kharkiv ) was a Ukrainian chess master and coach.

Sawon was at the beginning of the 1960s a promising Soviet youth players: In 1961 he won in Lviv, in 1961 and 1963 to 1967 he won with the team of the Soviet Union, the Student Olympiad. In 1967 he was split in Sarajevo third parties, received the title of International Master and qualified first for the final of the USSR championship, in which he shared 10-12. 1969 ( 10th - 11th ) and 1970 ( 5th - 7th ), he also participated and achieved good places. A sensation presented, however, his victory at the 39th USSR championship (1971 ) in Leningrad dar. Sawon was 1.5 points ahead of the two former world champion Vasily Smyslov and Mikhail Tal, and two points ahead of the eventual champion Anatoly Karpov superior USSR champion. He won with the Soviet Union, the Chess Olympiad 1972 in Skopje. 1973 FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title. In the same year Sawon qualified for the Interzonal in Petrópolis, where he finished eighth. Throughout his career Sawon won numerous international tournaments, his last tournament Mikhail Botvinnik Memorial ( a veterans tournament ) in Satka 2004.

For more tournament successes:

  • Maroczy Memorial Debrecen 1970: 1 / 2 Place with Bilek
  • Moscow 1970: 1st Place
  • Mar del Plata 1971: 2 / 3 space
  • Sukhumi 1972: 2nd place behind Valley
  • USSR Championship 1972 Baku: 3rd - 5th space
  • Lublin 1977: 1 / 2 space

Sawon shifted the focus of his work in his last years on chess training with young Ukrainian chess players. Among his most important students count Vasyl Ivanchuk, Ruslan Ponomariov, Karjakin Serhiy, Oleksandr Areschtschenko and others. Sawon died in 2005 in Kharkiv.

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