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Georgy Borisenko

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Georgy Borisenko
Full nameGeorgy Konstantinovich Borisenko
CountryUSSR
Born(1922-05-25)May 25, 1922
Chuhuiv, USSR
DiedDecember 3, 2012(2012-12-03) (aged 90)
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
TitleRussian Correspondence Grandmaster
Peak rating2440 (May 1974)[1]

Georgy Konstantinovich Borisenko (May 25, 1922 — December 3, 2012) was a Soviet correspondence chess grandmaster and chess theoretician.[2] Among the players he trained were Nona Gaprindashvili, Valentina Borisenko (who was also his wife),[2] Viktor Korchnoi, Mark Taimanov,[3] and Timur Gareyev.[2] He became a Russian Master of Sport in 1950 and a Russian Correspondence Grandmaster in 1966. He won the USSR Correspondence Championship twice, in 1957 and 1962, and came in second in 1965.[3] One of his best-known games was played from 1960 to 1963 against Anatoly Rubezov, and is included in multiple anthologies of brilliant chess games.[4] In 1973, David Bronstein described Borisenko as "one of our greatest theoretical experts."[5] In Russia, the Breyer Variation of the Ruy Lopez is known as the "Borisenko-Furman" variation because Borisenko and Semyon Furman were central in bringing it into use in the 1950s.[6] Another line of the Closed Ruy Lopez is also named after him; specifically, the line in the Chigorin Variation which goes 9...Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Nc6.[7][8] His wife Valentina Borisenko was also a chess player and held a Candidate Master title.

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  1. ^ "Georgy K. Borisenko Ratings". OlimpBase. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "Obituary - GM Georgy Borisenko". FIDE. 4 December 2012. Archived from the original on 30 July 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Happy birthday from TRG!". FIDE Trainers' Commission. 16 August 2016. Archived from the original on 29 July 2013. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  4. ^ "Chess". The Scotsman. 30 December 2004. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  5. ^ Bronstein, David (1973). 200 Open Games. Courier Corporation. p. 147.
  6. ^ Sosenko, Genna (2014). Russian Silhouettes. New In Chess. p. 138.
  7. ^ Engqvist, Thomas (2016). Stein: Move by Move. Everyman Chess (published 7 March 2016). Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  8. ^ Byrne, Robert (1988-10-02). "Concessions After the Preliminary Fumble". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
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