Peter Potemkine
Peter Petrovich Potemkine (Russian: Пётр Петрович Потёмкин, Pyotr Petrovich Potyomkin; 1886–1926) was a Russian Empire chess master.[1]
He took 7th at St. Petersburg 1904 (Mikhail Chigorin won), took 5th at St Petersburg 1907 (Eugene Znosko-Borovsky won, and took 8th at St Petersburg 1913 ( won). In winter 1912, he played with Alexander Alekhine and Vasily Osipovich Smyslov (father of Vasily Smyslov) in Sankt Petersburg. In 1920, he tied for 3rd-6th in Moscow (Alexei Alekhine won).[2]
Count Potemkine was a White émigré living in France. He officially represented Russia in 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad at Paris 1924.[3]
He tied for 7-8th at Prague 1923 (Karel Skalička won), tied for 4-7th at Paris 1924 (Znosko-Borovsky won), tied for 5-6th at Paris 1925 (Victor Kahn won), and shared 1st with Vitaly Halberstadt at Paris 1926.[4]
In 1926, Le Cercle d'échecs Potemkine was established in Paris.[5]
Notes[]
- ^ Chess Notes by Edward Winter
- ^ Welcome to the Chessmetrics site
- ^ OlimpBase :: Chess Olympiad Paris 1924: information
- ^ http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01
- ^ index Archived 2008-08-20 at the Wayback Machine
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