Nikolai Zubarev (10 January 1894 – January 1951) was a Russian
chess
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player. He won the championship of Moscow twice.
Chess career
During
World War I
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, Zubarev won ahead of
Peter Yurdansky at Moscow 1915, and tied for 4-5th places the next year. After the war, he won the
championship of Moscow in 1927 and 1930. He also took 5th place in 1919/20 (
Alexander Alekhine
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By the age of 22, Alekhine was already a ...
won), took 3rd in 1920 (
Josef Cukierman Joseph (Józef, Iosif) Cukierman (Zukermann) ( Gródek, Austria-Hungary, 28 March 1899 – Castres, France, 18 November 1940) was a Polish-born French chess master.
Biography
Cukierman was won the second Moscow City Championship (1920/21). In ...
won), shared 6th in 1922/23 (
Nikolai Grigoriev
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won), tied for 12-13th in 1925 (
Aleksandr Sergeyev won), took 2nd behind
Abram Rabinovich
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Biography
Rabinovich was born in Vilna, Lithuania (then the Russian Empire) into a Litvak family. ...
in 1926, tied for 5-6th in 1928 (
Boris Verlinsky
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won), shared 6th in 1929 (
Vasily Panov
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won), all in the Moscow Championship, and finished last in the
1925 Moscow international tournament, won by
Efim Bogoljubov
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.
He participated several times in
USSR Chess Championship
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; tied for 11-12th at Moscow 1920 (Alekhine won), took 10th at Petrograd 1923 (
Peter Romanovsky
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Biography
At the begi ...
won), tied for 11-13th at Leningrad 1925 (Bogoljubov won), took 4th at Odessa 1929 (quarter-final), and took 18th at Leningrad 1933 (
Mikhail Botvinnik
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Botvinnik ...
won).
Zubarev was awarded the
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title in 1951.
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References
1894 births
1951 deaths
Russian chess players
Soviet chess players
20th-century chess players
Date of death missing
Place of birth missing
Place of death missing
Chess arbiters
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