- Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky
Fyodor Ivanovich Duz–Khotimirsky (sometimes transliterated Chotimirski, Khotymirsky etc.) (26 September 1879, – 6 November 1965) was a Ukrainian
chess master.He won four times the
Kiev championships (1900, 1902, 1903, and 1906). He participated in five Russian championships (All Russian Masters Tournament). In 1901 he took 15th in Moscow (2nd RUS-ch;Mikhail Chigorin won). In 1903, he took 15th in Kiev (3rd RUS-ch; Chigorin won). In 1906, he tied for 8-10th in Sankt Petersburg (4th RUS-ch;Gersz Salwe won). In 1907/08, he tied for 8-9th inŁódź (5th RUS-ch;Akiba Rubinstein won). In 1909, he took 4th in Vilna (6th RUS-ch; Rubinstein won).In tournaments, he took 7th at St Petersburg 1901 (Lebedev won). In 1907, he tied for 11-12th in Carlsbad (Rubinstein won). In 1907 he won, ahead of
Benjamin Blumenfeld andGeorg Marco , in Moscow. In 1907, he took 3rd in Moscow (Chigorin won). In 1908, he took 4th in Moscow (Vladimir Nenarokov won). In 1908, he took 11th in Prague (Oldrich Duras andCarl Schlechter won). In 1908, he drew a match withFrank Marshall (+2 –2 =2) in Warsaw. In 1909, he took 13th in St Petersburg but beatEmanuel Lasker and Rubinstein in their individual games. In 1910, he took 4th in St Petersburg (Sergey von Freymann , Lebedev andGrigory Levenfish won). In 1910, he tied for 7-8th in Hamburg (17th DSB Kongress; Schlechter won). In 1911, he took 22nd in Carlsbad (Richard Teichmann won). In 1911, he tied for 1st-2nd withEugene Znosko-Borovsky in St Petersburg. In 1913, he lost an exhibition mini-match toJosé Raúl Capablanca (+0 –2 =0) in Sankt Petersburg.In 1921, he tied for 7-8th in Moscow (Grigoriev won). In 1923, he tied for 3rd-5th in Petrograd (2nd URS-ch;
Peter Romanovsky won). In 1924, he tied for 10-11th in Moscow (3rd URS-ch;Efim Bogoljubow won). In 1925, he took 5th in Leningrad (Bogoljubow won). In 1925, he took 20th in Moscow (it; Bogoljubow won). In 1925, he tied for 5-7th in Moscow (Sergeev won). In 1927, he tied for 3rd-4th in Moscow (5th URS-ch;Fedor Bohatyrchuk and Romanovsky won). In 1927, he took 2nd, behind Sorokin, in Tiflis. In 1930, he tied for 3rd-5th in Moscow (Abram Rabinovich won). [ [http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables ] ]In 1931, he won the 2nd
Uzbekistani Chess Championship . [http://www.geocities.com/al2055km/ch_repub.html] In 1933, he took 19th in Leningrad (8th URS-ch;Mikhail Botvinnik won). In 1938, he tied for 13-17th in Kiev (URS-ch sf;Vasily Panov won). In June 1941, he played in interrupted semifinals of the Soviet championship in Rostov-on-Don. In November 1942, he took 15th in Moscow-ch (Vassily Smyslov won). In 1944, he tied for 15-16th in Moscow (URS-ch sf;Alexander Kotov won). In 1945, he took 14th in Baku (URS-ch sf). In 1946, he tied for 16-17th in Tbilisi (URS-ch sf). In 1947, he tied for 2nd-4th in Yerevan (7th ARM-ch;Igor Bondarevsky won off contest). In 1949, he tied for 14-15th in Vilnius (URS-ch sf). [http://www.geocities.com/al2055perv/ch_urs.html]He was awarded the
International Master title in 1950.References
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