#Kotov

🔷 Alexander Kotov
🔹 Soviet Chess Grandmaster and Chess Author
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#about_Kotov

🔹 Alexander Kotov
🔹 Soviet Chess Grandmaster and Chess Author

🔰 Alexander Alexandrovich Kotov was a Soviet chess grandmaster and author. He was a Soviet chess champion, a two-time world title Candidate, and a prolific writer on the subject of chess. The importance and breadth of Kotov's work rank him among the all-time greats in this field.

🔰Kotov was born in Tula, which was part of the Russian Empire, to a large working class family. He moved to Moscow in 1939 to study engineering, and during this time studied chess a great deal.
While best remembered today as an author, Kotov also had a number of good results as a player. One of his best early results was his second-place finish in the 1939 USSR Championship, in which he just missed out to Mikhail Botvinnik in the final round. This result won him the Soviet Grandmaster title, the third Soviet player to hold the title after Botvinnik and Grigory Levenfish. Kotov was Moscow champion in 1941. He won the Soviet title jointly with David Bronstein in 1948, and won at Venice in 1950, ahead of Vasily Smyslov.

♦️ A memorable game by Kotov against Mikhail Botvinik in Groningen 1946 which named "Kotov Many Colors" in chessgames.com site!! 👇🏼
▪️ Mikhail Botvinnik vs Alexander Kotov
▪️ Groningen (1946), Groningen NED, rd 14, Aug-30
▪️ Nimzo-Indian Defense: Saemisch Variation. Accelerated (E24)

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▪️ Mikhail Botvinnik - Alexander Koto, Groningen (1946)
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A young Lev Polugaevsky, Twice USSR Champion (1967, 1968), International Grandmaster (1962), winner of numerous international tournaments, World Championship Candidate (1974, 1977, 1980).

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The Hague, 3rd July 1962. Netherlands v. USSR match, Round 1. On board 5, Mikhail Tal faces Haije Kramer; Tigran Petrosian looks on.

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The winners of the 2018 World Cadet Chess Championships.

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🏁✅ Vishy Anand vs Levon Aronian | Tata Steel Chess India 2018 Blitz!
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