Georgy Geshev

Georgy Geshev
Born October 8, 1903
Died July 15, 1937 (aged 33)

Georgy (Georgi) Geshev (Geschew) (Bulgarian: Георги Христов Гешев) (born October 8, 1903 in Sofia – died July 15, 1937)[1] was a Bulgarian chess master.

At the beginning of his career, he tied for 6-7th at Varna 1926 (K. Atanasov, G. Slavchev, and A. Telegin won), shared 1st with Pipkas at Sofia 1927, won at Trnovo 1928, and took 2nd, behind A. Gyurov, at Sofia 1929.[2]

He won the Bulgarian Chess Championship four times (1933 – jointly,[3] 1934,[4] 1935,[5] and 1936.[6] At the play-off match for the 1933 title, he triumphed against Yury Toshev (4½ : 3½),[7] to become the first official Bulgarian Champion.[8]

Geshev represented Bulgaria on first board at the 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad held in Munich 1936.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Gaige, Jeremy (1987). Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography. McFarland. p. 138. ISBN 0-7864-2353-6.
  2. ↑ "Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  3. ↑ "1933 Varna Bulg Ch". Thechesslibrary.com. 2008-07-29. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  4. ↑ "1934 Sofia Bulg Ch". Thechesslibrary.com. 2008-07-29. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  5. ↑ "1935 Russe Bulg Ch". Thechesslibrary.com. 2008-07-29. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  6. ↑ "1936 Sofia Bulg Ch". Thechesslibrary.com. 2008-07-29. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  7. ↑
  8. ↑ "Internet Archive Wayback Machine". Web.archive.org. 2009-10-28. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  9. ↑ http://www.olimpbase.org/1936x/1936id01.html

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