(1910-05-01)1 May 1910 Saint Petersburg (Leningrad), USSR
Died
3 March 1969(1969-03-03) (aged 58) Saint Petersburg
Title
Grandmaster (1953) International Correspondence Chess Master (1965)
Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush (1 May 1910 – 3 March 1969) was a Soviet chess grandmaster. He was one of Boris Spassky's mentors. Tolush was born and died in Saint Petersburg (in 1969 called Leningrad). He earned the title of International Master (IM) in 1950, Grandmaster (GM) in 1953, and International Master of Correspondence Chess (IMC) in 1965.
Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush (1 May 1910 – 3 March 1969) was a Soviet chess grandmaster. He was one of Boris Spassky's mentors. Tolush was born and died...
Averbakh vs. Kotov, 1953 Kotov vs. AlexanderTolush, Leningrad Championship 1938, Neo-Grünfeld Defence (D76), 1–0. Tolush was a dangerous attacker, but he...
fourth place with Laszlo Szabo on 12/19, an event won by his trainer, AlexanderTolush. At Bucharest he defeated Vasily Smyslov, who challenged for the World...
(born 1985) Sergei Tiviakov (born 1973) Vladislav Tkachiev (born 1973) AlexanderTolush (1910–1969) Evgeny Tomashevsky (born 1987) Pavel Tregubov (born 1971)...
complications and gets outcombined. Alexander Konstantinopolsky vs AlexanderTolush, Moscow 1936, Queen's Pawn Game (A47), 1-0 Tolush gets too greedy, grabs material...
seven losses, and two draws). Rudenko's post-war chess trainers were AlexanderTolush and Grigory Levenfish. Rudenko was inducted into the World Chess Hall...
players Botvinnik, Keres, and Smyslov; their seconds Viacheslav Ragozin, AlexanderTolush, and Vladimir Alatortsev respectively; correspondents Igor Bondarevsky...
Balatonfüred 1958 with 9/11, ahead of strong Grandmasters László Szabó and AlexanderTolush. He earned the International Master title. He finished second at Hastings...
champion, played many games of correspondence chess. OTB world champions Alexander Alekhine and Max Euwe also played. Ulf Andersson also achieved very high...
France born 1973) Miodrag Todorcevic (Serbia, France, born 1940) AlexanderTolush (Russia, 1910–1969) Evgeny Tomashevsky (Russia, born 1987) Vasilije...
Spassky Tigran Petrosian Vasily Smyslov Mark Taimanov Viktor Korchnoi AlexanderTolush Isaac Boleslavsky Yuri Averbakh Lev Aronin Yugoslavia Svetozar Gligorić...
(+11−0=4), ahead of several strong visiting Soviets, including Alexander Kotov, AlexanderTolush, Lilienthal, and Flohr. He then won at Tbilisi 1946 (hors...
Black appealed to aggressive players such as Rashid Nezhmetdinov and AlexanderTolush; the Israeli master Moshe Czerniak also employed it frequently. Lev...
(1931 and 1932), Boris Spassky (1959 and 1961) and FIDE World Champion Alexander Khalifman (1996 and 1997). Held in February-March 2009: 81. Final St.Petersburg...
and in 1957, he scored 9.5/19, with the winners Boris Spassky and AlexanderTolush. At Vilnius 1960, he made 11.5/17 in the Soviet semi-final to advance...
was again in form, with 11½/19, tying for first with Abraham Khasin, AlexanderTolush, Konstantin Klaman, and Boris Spassky. He went back to the semifinal...
qualifying tournaments. Third place match: GM Alexey Dreev (2650) 1½:½ IM Alexander Lastin (2535) Alexey Popovsky. "I All-Russian Tournament- Moscow 2-19...
½ 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ - 1 0 0 1 ½ ½ 7½ 13 AlexanderTolush 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 - 1 ½ 1 0 1 7½ 14 Alexander Koblencs 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 1 ½ ½ 1 0 - 0 ½...
December 1948 in Moscow. The tournament was won by David Bronstein and Alexander Kotov. Mikhail Botvinnik did not participate in the championship again...
Gorky 1935, scoring 4/9 points for a tied 6-7th place; the winner was AlexanderTolush. The next year, he won an All-Union first category tournament in Leningrad...
1 0 1 1 1 11 3 AlexanderTolush ½ ½ - 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 0 1 1 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 11 4 Lev Aronin 0 0 1 - 1 0 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 11 5 Alexander Konstantinopolsky...
Vasily Tolstikov (1917–2003), diplomat and Communist Party official AlexanderTolush (1910–1969), chess grandmaster Vladimir Trusenyov (1931–2001), discus...
11/17 (+8 −3 =6), to tie for 2nd–4th places, along with Lev Aronin and AlexanderTolush, only half a point behind champion Paul Keres. In the 1950 Ukrainian...
less academic style. As a result of his recent training period with AlexanderTolush, he often sacrificed material. The crowning moment for this attacking...
International Master and a former national champion - September 26 AlexanderTolush, Soviet-Russian GM, renowned journalist and trainer of Spassky and...
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