Georgy Borisenko

Georgy Konstantinovich Borisenko (May 25, 1922 in Chuhuiv, Ukraine—December 3, 2012 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan) was a Soviet correspondence chess grandmaster and chess theoretician.[2] Among the players he trained were Nona Gaprindashvili, Valentina Borisenko (who was also his wife),[2] Viktor Korchnoi, Mark Taimanov,[3] and Timur Gareyev. He became a Russian Master of Sport in 1950 and a Russian Correspondence Grandmaster in 1966. He won the USSR Correspondence Championship twice, in 1957 and 1962, and came in second in 1965.[3] One of his best-known games was played from 1960 to 1963 against Anatoly Rubezov, and is included in multiple anthologies of brilliant chess games.[4] In 1973, David Bronstein described Borisenko as "one of our greatest theoretical experts."[5] In Russia, the Breyer Variation of the Ruy Lopez is known as the "Borisenko-Furman" variation because Borisenko and Semyon Furman were central in bringing it into use in the 1950s.[6] Another line of the Closed Ruy Lopez is also named after him; specifically, the line in the Chigorin Variation which goes 9...Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Nc6.[7][8] His son with Valentina Borisenko is also a chess player and holds a Candidate Master title.

Georgy Borisenko
Full nameGeorgy Konstantinovich Borisenko
CountryUSSR
Born(1922-05-25)May 25, 1922
Chuhuiv, Ukraine
DiedDecember 3, 2012(2012-12-03) (aged 90)
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
TitleRussian Correspondence Grandmaster
Peak rating2440 (May 1974)[1]


References

  1. "Georgy K. Borisenko Ratings". OlimpBase. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  2. "Obituary - GM Georgy Borisenko". FIDE. 4 December 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  3. "Happy birthday from TRG!". FIDE Trainers' Commission. 16 August 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  4. "Chess". The Scotsman. 30 December 2004. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  5. Bronstein, David (1973). 200 Open Games. Courier Corporation. p. 147.
  6. Sosenko, Genna (2014). Russian Silhouettes. New In Chess. p. 138.
  7. Engqvist, Thomas (2016). Stein: Move by Move. Everyman Chess (published 7 March 2016). Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  8. Byrne, Robert (1988-10-02). "Concessions After the Preliminary Fumble". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
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