Mikhail Tal's trainer! : Ciocaltea vs Nezhmetdinov : Notable chess game: Bucharest (1954)

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[Event "Bucharest"]
[Site "Bucharest ROU"]
[Date "1954.??.??"]
[EventDate "1954.??.??"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Victor Ciocaltea"]
[Black "Rashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov"]
[ECO "C59"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "54"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Na5 6.Bb5+ c6
7.dxc6 bxc6 8.Be2 h6 9.Nf3 e4 10.Ne5 Qc7 11.Ng4 Bxg4 12.Bxg4
Bc5 13.Be2 Rd8 14.c3 Nb7 15.O-O h5 16.d4 exd3 17.Bxd3 Ng4
18.Qe2+ Kf8 19.g3 Qd7 20.Be4 h4 21.Bf4 Nxh2 22.Re1 Ng4 23.Bf3
Nxf2 24.Be3 hxg3 25.Bxc5+ Nxc5 26.Bxc6 Nh3+ 27.Kf1 Qf5+ 0-1

Who is he?

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Rashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov (Tatar: Cyrillic Рәшит Һибәт улы Нәҗметдинов, Latin Räşit Hibät ulı Näcmetdinov, [ræˈʃit næʑmetˈdinəf] Russian: Рашид Гибятович Нежметдинов; December 15, 1912 – June 3, 1974) was an eminent Soviet chess player, chess writer, and checkers player.

Nezhmetdinov had a natural talent for both chess and checkers. He learned chess by watching others play at a chess club, whereupon he challenged one of the players, won, and then challenged another player, winning that game as well. At 15, he played in Kazan's Tournament of Pioneers, winning all 15 games. He also learned to play checkers at this time. During the same month in which he learned the game, he won Kazan's checkers semi-final and placed second in the finals. In the same year, he placed sixth in the Russian Checkers Championship. He later won the Russian Checkers Championship at least once. Later, however, he gave up checkers for chess.

Checkers
During World War II, Nezhmetdinov served in the military, thus delaying the further progress of his chess career until 1946. In 1949, the Russian Checkers Semifinals were held in Kazan. Nezhmetdinov attended as a spectator, but when one of the participants failed to show up, Nezhmetdinov agreed to substitute for him even though he hadn't played checkers for 15 years. He won every game, qualifying him for the Finals, which were to be held immediately after a chess tournament in which he was also participating. He won the tournament and immediately thereafter placed second in the Russian Checkers Championship.[citation needed]

Chess career
Playing style
Nezhmetdinov was a fierce, imaginative, attacking player who beat many of the best players in the world.

Russian Championship
Nezhmetdinov got the historical record of five wins of the Russian Chess Championship, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1957 and 1958.

International Master title
FIDE awarded him the International Master title for his second-place finish behind Viktor Korchnoi at Bucharest 1954, the only time he was able to compete outside of the Soviet Union.[1] Despite his extraordinary talent, he never was able to obtain the grandmaster title. Grandmaster Yuri Averbakh, a strong positional and endgame player, suggested a possible reason for this in his interview by Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam in The Day Kasparov Quit:

Nezhmetdinov, ... if he had the attack, could kill anybody, including Tal. But my score against him was something like 8½–½ because I did not give him any possibility for an active game. In such cases he would immediately start to spoil his position because he was looking for complications.

Results against world champions
Nezhmetdinov won a number of games against world champions such as Mikhail Tal, against whom he had a lifetime plus score, and Boris Spassky. He also had success against other world-class grandmasters such as David Bronstein, Lev Polugaevsky, and Efim Geller. He achieved a plus score in the 20 games he contested against World Champions. But in addition to his aforementioned dismal score against Averbakh, he could only score +0−3=2 each against excellent defenders Tigran Petrosian[2] and Viktor Korchnoi.[3]

Memorial
Kazan Chess school is currently named after Rashid Nezhmetdinov.
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