- Vitaly Tseshkovsky
Vitaly Valerianovich Tseshkovsky (born
September 25 ,1944 inOmsk ) is aRussia nchess Grandmaster and a former champion of theUSSR .Tseshkovsky (Cieszkowski) was born in
Siberia into a Polish family (his noble ancestors lived in Volhynia).He was awarded the
International Master title in 1973 and became anInternational Grandmaster in 1975.His best tournament victories include first at
Leipzig 1975,Dubna 1976,Yerevan 1980,Banja Luka 1981,Sochi 1981 andMinsk 1982. He was joint winner of the 1978 Soviet Championship withMikhail Tal and in 1986, became the champion outright. He has beaten several world champions:Vasily Smyslov at the Moscow Spartakiad 1974,Mikhail Tal at Sochi 1970, and a youngGarry Kasparov at the 1978 Soviet Championship. Tseshkovsky himself almost qualified for the World Championship candidates matches when he finished fourth in the 1976Manila Interzonal , one place lower than was needed to progress to the next stage.His 6/9 result in
St Petersburg , 2004 qualified him to play in the Russian Championship final later in the year, alongside Russia's seven top players and five other qualifiers.Throughout his career, Tseshkovsky has played 1.e4 when playing White. With Black he has played the
Ruy Lopez ,Sicilian Defence ,Pirc Defence andModern Defence against 1.e4, and against 1.d4 he has most often played theGrünfeld Defence andBenko Gambit .In the April 2005
FIDE list, Tseshkovsky had anElo rating of 2589.References
*cite book | author=Hooper, David and
Kenneth Whyld | title=The Oxford Companion To Chess | publisher=Oxford University | year=1996 | id=ISBN 0-19-280049-3*cite book | author=Cafferty, Bernard and
Mark Taimanov | title=The Soviet Championships | publisher=Cadogan Chess | year=1998 | id=ISBN 1-85744-201-6External links
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