Sergey Lebedev (chess player)
Sergey Fedorovich Lebedev (Russian: Серге́й Фёдорович Лебедев; January 1868 – December 1942) was a chess master who lived in the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union.
Chess career[edit]
S.F. Lebedev lived in Saint Petersburg before World War I, during and after the war (Petrograd, Leningrad). He took 4th at Moscow 1899 (the 1st All-Russian Masters' Tournament, Mikhail Chigorin won),[1] took 3rd at St. Petersburg 1900 (Chigorin and Alexander Levin won), tied for 8–10th at Moscow 1900/01 (the 2nd RUS-ch won by Chigorin), thrice won, jointly with Grigory Helbach (1), ahead of Abkin (2), and ahead of Emmanuel Schiffers (3) in St. Petersburg in 1901,[2] and tied for 9–10th in the Kiev 1903 chess tournament (the 3rd RUS-ch, Chigorin won).[3]
He shared 2nd with Simon Alapin, behind Sergey von Freymann, in 1907, won (Quadrangular) in 1908, tied for 7–8th (All-Russian Amateur Tournament, Alexander Alekhine won) in 1909, tied for 1st–3rd with Freymann and Grigory Levenfish in 1910, took 15th (the 8th All-Russian Masters' Tournament (RUS-ch), Alekhine and Aron Nimzowitsch won) in 1913/14, all played in St. Petersburg.[4]
After the war he tied for 11–13th at Petrograd 1923 (the 2nd USSR Chess Championship, Peter Romanovsky won).[5][6]
References[edit]
- ^ Mosca 1899. Xoomer.virgilio.it (13 March 2013). Retrieved on 2015-06-30.
- ^ I tornei dal 1900 al 1909. Xoomer.virgilio.it (13 March 2013). Retrieved on 2015-06-30.
- ^ Kiew (Ukraina) 3°Campionato panrusso, 1/26 settembre 1903. Xoomer.alice.it (13 March 2013). Retrieved on 2015-06-30.
- ^ Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 1 September 2004.
- ^ II Championship of USSR- Petrograd 8–24.7.1923. webcitation.org
- ^ Bill Wall. Russian Chess History. Web.archive.org. Retrieved on 30 June 2015.