Vladimir Zagorovsky

Vladimir Zagorovsky
Full name	Vladimir Pavlovich Zagorovsky
Country	Russia
Born	(1925-06-29)29 June 1925 Voronezh, USSR
Died	6 November 1994(1994-11-06) (aged 69) Voronezh, Russia
Title	International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1965)
ICCF World Champion	1962–1965
FIDE rating	2370 (July 1972)
ICCF rating	2452 (July 1996)
ICCF peak rating	2590 (July 1991)

Vladimir Pavlovich Zagorovsky (Russian: Влади́мир Па́влович Загоро́вский; 29 June 1925, Voronezh, Russia, formerly USSR – 6 November 1994, Voronezh, Russia) was a Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess. He is most famous for being the fourth ICCF World Champion between 1962 and 1965. He won the 1952 Moscow City Championship and finished 2nd in the 1951 championship. In the July 1972 FIDE rating list he had an over the board rating of 2370. His brother Mikhail Zagorovsky was also a chess master.

Selected titles

• 1948: Master of Sports of the USSR (chess)
• 1991: Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (chess)

Books

• Zagororovsky, Vladimir (1982). Romantic Chess Openings. ISBN 0713436239. OCLC 9972859.

Notes and references

References

• Hooper, David; Whyld, Kenneth (1987) [1984]. The Oxford Companion to Chess. Oxford University Press. p. 384. ISBN 0192819860. OCLC 1158758799.
• Karpov, Anatoly Yevgenyevich, ed. (1990). "1948: В. Загоровский" [1948: V. Zagorovsky] (PDF). Шахматы: Энциклопедический Словарь (Russian Chess Encyclopedia and Biographical Dictionary) (in Russian). Moscow: Great Soviet Encyclopedia. ISBN 5852700053. OCLC 606026618.
• "FIDE Rating List: July 1972". OlimpBase – The Encyclopedia of Team Chess. Retrieved November 18, 2016.

External links

• Vladimir Zagorovsky player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Vladimir Zagorovsky player details at ICCF