- Peter Potemkine
Peter Potemkin (Potemkine, Potyomkin) (1886 – 1926) was a Russian chess master. [ [http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter38.html Chess Notes by Edward Winter ] ]
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 (Andrey Smorodsky won). In Winter 1912, he played withAlexander Alekhine and Vasily Osipovich Smyslov (father ofVasily Smyslov ) in Sankt Petersburg. In 1920, he tied for 3rd-6th in Moscow (Alexei Alekhine won). [ [http://www.chessmetrics.com Welcome to the Chessmetrics site ] ]Count Potemkine was a Soviet expatriate living in France. He officially represented Russia in
1st unofficial Chess Olympiad at Paris 1924. [ [http://www.olimpbase.org/1924/1924in.html OlimpBase :: Chess Olympiad Paris 1924: information ] ]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 withVitaly Halberstadt at Paris 1926. [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]In 1926, "Le Cercle d'échecs Potemkine" was established in Paris. [ [http://www.echecsinfos92.com/histpotemkine.html index ] ]
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