Aleksandr Sergeyevich Sergeyev (28 August 1897,

Serpukhov Serpukhov ( rus, Серпухов, p=ˈsʲɛrpʊxəf) is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Oka and the Nara Rivers, south from Moscow ( from Moscow Ring Road) on the Moscow—Simferopol highway. The Moscow— T ...

– 24 January 1970,

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

) was a Russian

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

master. He won the Moscow City Chess Championship in 1925. In other editions of the same event, he tied for 3rd-5th in 1922/23 (

Nikolai Grigoriev Nikalai (Nikolay) Dmitrievich Grigoriev (russian: Никола́й Дми́триевич Григо́рьев) was a Russian chess player and a composer of endgame study, endgame studies. He was born on 14 August 1895 in Moscow, and he died ther ...

won), took 6th in 1924 (Grigoriev won), took 7th in 1926 (

Abram Rabinovich Abram Isaakovich Rabinovich (5 January 1878 – 7 November 1943) was a Lithuanian–Russian chess player. He was champion of Moscow in 1926. Biography Rabinovich was born in Vilna, Lithuania (then the Russian Empire) into a Litvak family. Hi ...

won), tied for 5-6th in 1927 (

Nikolai Zubarev Nikolai Zubarev (10 January 1894 – January 1951) was a Russian chess player. He won the championship of Moscow twice. Chess career During World War I, Zubarev won ahead of Peter Yurdansky at Moscow 1915, and tied for 4-5th places the next yea ...

, won), tied for 3rd-4th in 1928 ( Boris Verlinsky won), took 17th in 1930 (Zubarev won), took 19th in 1933/34 (

Nikolai Riumin Nikolai (Nikolay) Nikolaevich Riumin (Ryumin, Rjumin, Rumin) (russian: Николай Николаевич Рюмин; 5 September 1908, Moscow – 1942, Omsk) was a Russian chess master, one of the strongest Soviet players of the 1930s. Riumin w ...

won), and tied for 10-12th in 1935 (Riumin won). Participating on three occasions at the

USSR Chess Championship The USSR Chess Championship was played from 1921 to 1991. Organized by the USSR Chess Federation, it was the strongest national chess championship ever held, with eight world chess champions and four world championship finalists among its winners. ...

, he tied for 16-17th at Moscow 1924 (

Efim Bogoljubow Efim Bogoljubow ( or ), also known as Ewfim Dimitrijewitsch Bogoljubow, ( (); also Romanized ''Bogoljubov'', ''Bogolyubov''; uk, Юхим Дмитрович Боголюбов, Yukhym Dmytrovych Boholiubov; April 14, 1889 – June 18, 1952) ...

won), tied for 9-10th at Leningrad 1925 (Bogoljubow won), and took 13th at Moscow 1927 ( Fedor Bogatyrchuk and Peter Romanovsky won).

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