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Forgacs = Fleischmann. They were one and the same player, using different names at different times, perhaps because of safety issues to do with the war.
The thing is, Leo Forgacs = Leo Fleischmann lived from 1881 to 1930. So this couldn't be the first player Hugh identifies as playing in this 1946 event. My guess, without any further info, is that it was Lorenz Fleischmann, and there is an error with the database.
Chessmetrics.com lists 'W. Fleischmann' as participating in this event, Regensburg 1946. To find this, search under find a player= 'Bohatirchuk, events'. The site doesn't list him as a rated player, so he can't be tracked further there.
Hugh, there is another Bohatirchuk game, from 1972, that you don't have on Canbase, since you only have his games to 1969. Dr. George Danilov (Kingston) defeated Dr. Bohatirchuk (Ottawa) in an Eastern Ontario Chess League match, held in Cornwall. Alex Danilov has this game.
The recent discussion about Bohatirchuk at Regensburg revealed to me a tournament of which I knew nothing.
There is a booklet of the games of Augsburg 1946 and Regensburg 1946 produced by A. J. Gillam and published by The Chess Player in 2000. Though it is out of print, I managed to procure a copy and below give the Bohatirchuk games. In fact, they are also available at the chessgames.com site, but I thought that giving them all together might provide present day readers with the opportunity of playing through these games of more than seventy years ago.
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The crosstable gives these scores:
1. F. Bohatirchuk 7.0
2. E. Zemgalis 6.5
3. W. Unzicker 6.0
4. S. Wotkowski 6.0
5. G. Blendinger 4.5
6. C.H. Meyer 4.5
7. J. Steger 3.5
8. F. Herzog 3.0
9. G. Meyer 2.5
10. W. Fleischmann 1.5
With these notes:
Bohatirchuk played under the name of Bogenhols in order to avoid detection by the Soviet authorities in Germany who wished to arrest him
The three games missing from this tournament are also missing in the original tournament bulletins
My thanks to Manuel Fruth of Schachfirma Fruth, Germany, for supplying the games scores for both tournaments in his booklet
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I may add that Schachfirma Fruth is an excellent supplier of used chess books.
Through online searching, I've found another tournament which I didn't know about, that Bohatirchuk won, in 1946. This was the 14-player round robin at Meerbeck, Lower Saxony, Germany, March 7-19, 1946. It was specifically staged for displaced persons from the Second World War, at the Meerbeck Allied Camp. He played under the pseudonym Bogenko in this one as well. I am wondering if Hugh, Stephen, and Wayne know about this. The site chessgames.com has NO GAMES from this event, and chessmetrics doesn't list it under Bohatirchuk's events. There is a tournament book for the event, edited by A.J. Gillam, described on the Netherlands book vendor website: devriesboeken.nl. :)
There were a number of such events in DP camps - the internees were happy to have a way to alleviate the boredom, while the local masters were happy to receive meals during the tournaments. I have a copy of the original tournament book courtesy of 6-time BC champion Miervaldis Jursevskis who played in the event. He also played Bohatirchuk five years later at the 1951 Canadian Championship held in Vancouver, where the good doctor claimed not to know Jursevskis. Games at http://bcchesshistory.com/meerbeck.pgn
Thanks, Stephen. I have updated his article on Wikipedia, with the Meerbeck info. That article, which I have worked on, has a fairly complete set of his tournaments, and I chose the set of linked illustrative games from those available at chessgames.com. There are still some gaps in information about his life, and more references are needed. The good doctor lived a very interesting life! It is flat-out amazing he lived to age 91! The item at wiki on his youth chess with Chigorin I got courtesy of IM Lawrence Day! :)
Through online searching, I've found another tournament which I didn't know about, that Bohatirchuk won, in 1946. This was the 14-player round robin at Meerbeck, Lower Saxony, Germany, March 7-19, 1946. It was specifically staged for displaced persons from the Second World War, at the Meerbeck Allied Camp. He played under the pseudonym Bogenko in this one as well. I am wondering if Hugh, Stephen, and Wayne know about this. The site chessgames.com has NO GAMES from this event, and chessmetrics doesn't list it under Bohatirchuk's events. There is a tournament book for the event, edited by A.J. Gillam, described on the Netherlands book vendor website: devriesboeken.nl. :)
There are three games from the Meerbeck tournament in Sergei Voronkov's two volume Russian language book on Bohatirchuk. They are his wins against Saltovskis, Yurzevskis, and Endzyelins.
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