Georgy Geshev

Georgy (Georgi) Geshev (Geschew) (Bulgarian: Георги Христов Гешев) (born October 8, 1903, in Sofia – died July 15, 1937)[1] was a Bulgarian chess master.

Georgy Geshev (20 January 1927)

At the beginning of his career, he tied for 6-7th at Varna 1926 (K. Atanasov, G. Slavchev, and A. Telegin won), shared 1st with Pinkas at Sofia 1927, won at Trnovo 1928, and took 2nd, behind A. Gyurov, at Sofia 1929.[2]

He won the Bulgarian Chess Championship four times (1933 – jointly,[3] 1934,[4] 1935,[5] and 1936.[6] At the play-off match for the 1933 title, he triumphed against Yury Toshev (4½ : 3½),[7] to become the first official Bulgarian Champion.[8]

Geshev represented Bulgaria on first board at the 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad held in Munich 1936.[9]

References
  1. Gaige, Jeremy (1987). Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography. McFarland. p. 138. ISBN 0-7864-2353-6.
  2. "Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  3. "1933 Varna Bulg Ch". Thechesslibrary.com. 2008-07-29. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  4. "1934 Sofia Bulg Ch". Thechesslibrary.com. 2008-07-29. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  5. "1935 Russe Bulg Ch". Thechesslibrary.com. 2008-07-29. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  6. "1936 Sofia Bulg Ch". Thechesslibrary.com. 2008-07-29. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  7. Archived August 28, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  8. "Firsts in chess - by Bill Wall". 2009-10-28. Archived from the original on October 28, 2009. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  9. "Unofficial Chess Olympiad, Munich 1936, individual results". www.olimpbase.org.


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