Vladimir Zagorovsky

Vladimir Pavlovich Sagorowski (Russian: Владимир Павлович Загоровский, scientific transcription Vladimir Pavlovich Zagorovskij; born June 29, 1925 in Voronezh, † November 6, 1994 ) was a Russian historian and the 4th Correspondence Chess World Champion ( 1965-1968 ).

Life

Sagorowski, a PhD in history, taught at the University of Voronezh story and published in the Soviet Union a number of writings on Russian history. He dealt particularly with the history of his home city of Voronezh.

In his spare time he was an avid chess player. At the age of six he learned the rules. Although he in his student days in Moscow in the 1950s in the OTB had a number of good successes ( 1952, he won the championship of Moscow ), he still felt more called to the historian.

Correspondence Chess

His work at the University left him little time to tournaments, but he discovered in the early 1950s correspondence chess, which he remained faithful until his death. He won the fourth Correspondence Chess World Championship, which was played in 1962 and 1965.

Sagorowski took part in a total of six world championships. At the 6th World Cup in 1971, he was behind Horst Rittner Vice World Champion, as well as at the 8th World Cup 1980 behind the Dane Jørn Sloth; with the same score Sloth had the better rating.

At the 5th World Cup, he was ranked 4-5 in the 7th World Cup 3-4, at the 11th World Cup 5th place

Functionary

Since 1975 he worked as Vice President at the World Correspondence Chess Federation ICCF.

His best historical Elo rating in the OTB was 2614th This he achieved in November 1953.

Chess players
Chess player (Soviet Union)
Correspondence chess players
Correspondence Chess World Champion
Historian
Russian
Person (Voronezh )
Born in 1925
Died in 1994
Man

Transcription (linguistics) Chessmetrics Grigory Sanakoev

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