Georgy Lisitsin

Georgy Lisitsin

Georgy Mikhailovich Lisitsin or Lisitsyn (Russian: Гео́ргий Миха́йлович Лиси́цын; 11 October 1909 – 20 March 1972) was a Soviet chess master from Leningrad. After high school he entered the Leningrad Industrial Institute, from which he graduated as a mechanical engineer.[1]

Chess career

He earned the title of Master in 1931 for his performance in the 7th USSR Championship.[2] He thrice won the Leningrad City Chess Championship, in 1933/34 (joint), 1939, and 1947 (joint). He was a frequent participant in the USSR Chess Championship. His best result was in 1933 when he shared 3rd, behind the winner Mikhail Botvinnik.[3] He also played in international tournaments, finishing 15th in Moscow 1935 (Botvinnik and Salo Flohr won).[4] He took 2nd at Helsinki 1946 behind winner Viacheslav Ragozin.[5]

Lisitsin was considered an expert on the Réti Opening above all others and won many of his best games with it.[6] He was an author of several chess books,[7] only a few sections of which have been translated from Russian into English. He wrote primarily about strategy, tactics, and endgame theory.[8]

He was awarded the International Master title in 1950.[9]

Books in English

  • Lisitsyn, G. M.; Cafferty, B. (1976). First Book of Chess Strategy. London: B.T. Batsford. ISBN 978-0900928697.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Lisitsyn, G. M.; Cafferty, B. (1976). Second Book of Chess Strategy. London: B.T. Batsford. ISBN 978-0713414257.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Lisitsyn, G. M.; Cafferty, B. (1980). The Strategy of Chess. London: B.T. Batsford. ISBN 978-0713433302.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Note: merges the First Book of Chess Strategy and Second Book of Chess Strategy into a single volume.
  • Romanovsky, Peter; Botvinnik, Mikhail; Kan, Ilya; Kmoch, Hans; Euwe, Max; Levenfish, Grigory; Lisitsin, Grigory (2021). The Leningrad Master Tournament 1934: With participation of Max Euwe and Hans Kmoch (Botvinnik's Method Of Preparing For Competition). Independently published. ISBN 979-8714484865.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Legacy

An opening variation, the Lisitsin Gambit (1.Nf3 f5 2.e4), is named after him. His improvement to a line in the Bishop's Opening (1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 c6 3.d4 d5 4.exd5 cxd5 5.Bb5+ Bd7 6.Bxd7+ Nxd7 7.dxe5 Nxe5 8.Ne2) is called the Lisitsin Variation.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Kotov, Alexander; Yudovich, Mikhail. The Soviet School of Chess. Dover Publications, 1961, p. 318.
  2. ↑ Kotov 1961, p. 318.
  3. ↑ Russian Chess Base
  4. ↑ GER-ch 3rd Aachen 1935 Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ 1946 Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ Kotov 1961, p. 318.
  7. ↑ Litmanowicz, Władysław & Giżycki, Jerzy (1986, 1987). Szachy od A do Z. Wydawnictwo Sport i Turystyka Warszawa. ISBN 83-217-2481-7 (1. A-M), ISBN 83-217-2745-X (2. N-Z)
  8. ↑ Kotov 1961, p. 320.
  9. ↑ "Liste des premiers titrés (chrono)". 23 March 2007. Retrieved 21 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  10. ↑ Hooper, David; Whyld, Kenneth (1996) [First pub. 1992]. "Lisitsin Variation". The Oxford Companion to Chess (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 228, 470. ISBN 0-19-280049-3.
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