Arvid Kubbel
Encyclopedia
Arvid Kubbel was a Russian chess
player and composer
.
He was a brother of Evgeny and Leonid Kubbel
. He tied for 5-7th at Moscow 1920 (the 1st Soviet Chess Championship, Alexander Alekhine
won), took 6th at Petrograd 1923 (the 2nd USSR-ch, Peter Romanovsky
won), took 5th in Leningrad City Chess Championship
1924 (Grigory Levenfish
won), tied for 11-13th at Leningrad 1925 (the 4th USSR-ch, Efim Bogoljubow
won), and tied for 8-9th in Leningrad City-ch 1928 (Ilya Rabinovich
won).
In 1938, he died of nephritis
in a Soviet gulag
.
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
player and composer
Chess problem
A chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a puzzle set by somebody using chess pieces on a chess board, that presents the solver with a particular task to be achieved. For instance, a position might be given with the instruction that White is to move first, and checkmate Black in two...
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He was a brother of Evgeny and Leonid Kubbel
Leonid Kubbel
Leonid Ivanovich Kubbel was a Russian composer of chess endgame studies and problems. He was born in Leningrad at the end of 1891, or beginning of 1892 and died in the same city on April 18, 1942...
. He tied for 5-7th at Moscow 1920 (the 1st Soviet Chess Championship, Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever.By the age of twenty-two, he was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played...
won), took 6th at Petrograd 1923 (the 2nd USSR-ch, Peter Romanovsky
Peter Romanovsky
Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky was a Russian chess International Master, International Arbiter, and author.-Biography:At the beginning of his career in Sankt Petersburg, he shared fourth place in 1908 , tied for 10-11th in 1909 , took second place behind Smorodsky in 1913, and shared first with...
won), took 5th in Leningrad City Chess Championship
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...
1924 (Grigory Levenfish
Grigory Levenfish
Grigory Yakovlevich Levenfish was a leading Jewish Russian chess grandmaster of the 1920s and 1930s. He was twice Soviet champion - in 1934 and 1937. In 1937 he tied a match against future world champion Mikhail Botvinnik...
won), tied for 11-13th at Leningrad 1925 (the 4th USSR-ch, Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov was a Russo-German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches with Alexander Alekhine for the world championship.-Early career:...
won), and tied for 8-9th in Leningrad City-ch 1928 (Ilya Rabinovich
Ilya Rabinovich
Ilya Rabinovich was a Russian chess master.-Biography:In 1911 Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich tied for 1st with Platz in Saint Petersburg...
won).
In 1938, he died of nephritis
Nephritis
Nephritis is inflammation of the nephrons in the kidneys. The word "nephritis" was imported from Latin, which took it from Greek: νεφρίτιδα. The word comes from the Greek νεφρός - nephro- meaning "of the kidney" and -itis meaning "inflammation"....
in a Soviet gulag
Gulag
The Gulag was the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems. While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of...
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