Vyacheslav Vulfovich Osnos (russian: Вячеслав Вульфович Оснос; 24 July 1935, Luga – 27 August 2009,

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

) 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 dist ...

player, trainer and author. He was awarded the International Master title in 1965, and was champion of Leningrad in 1971 and 1980.

Chess career

Osnos competed in six Soviet championship finals from 1963 to 1968. In 1963, he won the semifinal of the Soviet championship ahead of Boris Spassky, Alexei Suetin,

Igor Bondarevsky Igor Zakharovich Bondarevsky (russian: Игорь Захарович Бондаревский; May 12, 1913 – June 14, 1979) was a Soviet Russian chess player, trainer, and chess author. He held the title of Grandmaster in both over-the-board ...

and

Yuri Averbakh Yuri Lvovich Averbakh (russian: Ю́рий Льво́вич Аверба́х; 8 February 1922 – 7 May 2022) was a Russian chess grandmaster and author. He was chairman of the USSR Chess Federation from 1973 to 1978. He was the first centenari ...

, but finished last of 20 in the final. In 1964, he finished second behind

Viktor Korchnoi Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi ( rus, Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й, p=vʲiktər lʲvovʲɪtɕ kɐrtɕˈnoj; 23 March 1931 – 6 June 2016) was a Soviet (before 1976) and Swiss (after 1980) chess grandmaster (GM) and chess writer. H ...

in the

Leningrad City Chess Championship The Leningrad City Chess Championship is a chess tournament held officially in the city of Leningrad, Russia starting from 1920. The city was called Petrograd from 1914 to 1924, then Leningrad until 1991, and Saint Petersburg afterwards. Only player ...

, which doubled as a semi-final for the Soviet championship, and finished equal tenth in the final, also won by Korchnoi. In 1965, he came third in the semifinal, and achieved his best result in a Soviet championship final, finishing in eighth place behind

Leonid Stein Leonid Zakharovich Stein (; November 12, 1934 – July 4, 1973) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster from Ukraine. He won three USSR Chess Championships in the 1960s (1963, 1965, and 1966), and was among the world's top ten players during that era. ...

, but ahead of

David Bronstein David Ionovich Bronstein (russian: Дави́д Ио́нович Бронште́йн; February 19, 1924 – December 5, 2006) was a Soviet and Ukrainian chess player. Awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in 1950, he narro ...

and Korchnoi. In 1966 he finished in equal fourteenth place; in 1967, in the first Soviet championship to be run under the

Swiss system A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format that features a fixed number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than for a round-robin tournament; thus each competitor (team or individual) does not play all the other ...

, he finished in a 10-way tie for eighth place out of 126 competitors. In his final Soviet championship in late 1968/early 1969, he finished in equal eleventh place. In 1968, Osnos finished =1st in the

, but lost the playoff against Valery Bykov and Alexander Cherepkov. The following year, he won an international tournament in

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. In 1970, he finished third in the Leningrad championship, won by Vladimir Karasev. He won the Leningrad championship in 1971 and in 1980. Between 1968 and 1974 he was one of Viktor Korchnoi's seconds, and in 1974 he was awarded the title of Honoured Trainer of the Russian SFSR. Osnos assisted Korchnoi during his narrowly lost

World Championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...

Candidate's final match against

Anatoly Karpov Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov ( rus, links=no, Анато́лий Евге́ньевич Ка́рпов, p=ɐnɐˈtolʲɪj jɪvˈɡʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈkarpəf; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Che ...

in Moscow 1974.Korchnoi, Viktor. ''Chess Is My Life'', Olms, 2005, p. 86. Osnos co-authored with Peter Wells ''The Complete Richter-Rauzer'', published by Batsford in 1998.

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