Iosif Rudakovsky

Iosif Iosifovich Rudakovsky (January 1914 – December 1947) was a Ukrainian chess master.

He took 8th at Moscow 1936,[1] won at Rostov-on-Don 1939, shared 3rd at Kiev 1940 (the 12th Ukrainian Chess Championship, Isaac Boleslavsky won), tied for 4-7th at Kiev 1940 (USSR-ch semifinal), took 20th at Moscow 1940 (the 12th USSR Chess Championship, Andor Lilienthal and Igor Bondarevsky won), and played in interrupted USSR-ch semifinals in Rostov-on-Don in June 1941 (the German-Soviet War, 22 June 1941 – 9 May 1945). After the war, he tied for 7-9th at Moscow (the 14th USSR-ch, Mikhail Botvinnik won), and shared 1st with Alexander Kotov and Alexander Konstantinopolsky at Baku 1945 (USSR-ch sf).[2][3][4]

He was a reservist in the Soviet team during the USSR vs. USA radio match in 1–4 September 1945.[5]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/al2055km/nat_tour/1936/ch_tra36.html&date=2009-10-25+12:12:58
  2. ↑ http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/al2055perv/ch_repub.html&date=2009-10-24+10:31:00
  3. ↑ http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/al2055perv/nat_tour.html&date=2009-10-25+02:11:52
  4. ↑ http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/al2055perv/ch_urs.html&date=2009-10-25+02:11:47
  5. ↑ http://sbchess.sinfree.net/Steiner_RadioMatch_USSR.html