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https://www.chess.com/news/view/hono...to-sultan-khan Sultan Khan awarded grandmaster title posthumously 73 years after he should have got it thanks to the awareness Daniel King's book raised about him.
Should Bohatirchuk also be awarded the title?
Also this is great news for researchers who could write a book about a worthy recipient who has been overlooked in the past.
https://www.chess.com/news/view/hono...to-sultan-khan Sultan Khan awarded grandmaster title posthumously 73 years after he should have got it thanks to the awareness Daniel King's book raised about him.
Should Bohatirchuk also be awarded the title?
Also this is great news for researchers who could write a book about a worthy recipient who has been overlooked in the past.
With all due respect to Mr Bohatirchuk, Sultan Khan was arguably one of the top 10 players in the world during his time and proved it by results - he was a slam dunk "deserves the title of Grandmaster". Mr Bohatirchuk had a period of about 10 years where he was around the top 10 in the Soviet Union and would be a solid GM by most standards from about the 1950s forward, and while he certainly had the potential for more had he not been unjustly blocked, it was just potential rather than displayed results. An outstanding player certainly of GM strength, worthy of all praise, but FIDE shouldn't be correcting these things other than in cases of obvious and glaring error.
It's not such a historical injustice that it requires correction in my view. But that's just my opinion.
https://www.chess.com/news/view/hono...to-sultan-khan Sultan Khan awarded grandmaster title posthumously 73 years after he should have got it thanks to the awareness Daniel King's book raised about him.
Should Bohatirchuk also be awarded the title?
Also this is great news for researchers who could write a book about a worthy recipient who has been overlooked in the past.
Thank you for your post. I went to the local library and picked (again) Daniel King's book :)
Related to Bohatirchuck:
In 1954 the Soviet Chess Federation intended to apply for the GM title for Pyotr Romanovsky, based on his win in the USSR Championship in 1927.
But Romanovsky won that title tied with Bohatirchuk.
So giving the title to Romanovsky would have implied awarding it to Bohatirchuk as well, that in the meantime became "persona non grata" in USSR.
Therefore they decided not to apply after all.
Dr. Fedor Bohatirchuk (1892-1984), a medical doctor, radiologist, from Kiev, was essentially denied the GM title for political reasons. He was a Ukrainian nationalist during World War II, and supported the German Army then. The Germans had promised Ukraine its independence if they were to go on to win the war. In 1941 and 1942, the Germans were winning on the eastern front. It should be noted that Dr. Bohatirchuk supported the Russian Army as a doctor during World War I. The Soviets began to turn the tide in the war in late 1942. Dr. Bohatirchuk fled with the German forces into eastern Europe as they retreated, during 1943-45. He was held in a displaced persons camp in occupied Germany, following the German surrender, making it into the sectors eventually being administered by the Americans, British, and French. There, he played in some master events under the name 'Bogenko', scoring well. His article on wikipedia, to which I have contributed, explains this. He wound up in Canada from 1948, and represented Canada at the 1954 Amsterdam Olympiad, at nearly 62 years of age. He served as a doctor and professor at the University of Ottawa, and coached the young Lawrence Day, who has just turned 75 years old.
Concerning his chess strength, the Soviet championships of the 1920s were the strongest national events in the world, by far. For him to tie for the 1927 Soviet title meant he would have been one of the world's top 20 or so players.
Concerning Dr. Bohatirchuk's strength -- he was clearly in the world's top 20 players during his peak years.
The website chessmetrics.com, created by American mathematician Jeff Sonas, lists historical ratings from the eras before FIDE instituted formal ratings, in the 1960s. For his work, Mr. Sonas has implemented FIDE mathematics on ratings, first created by NM Dr. Arpad Elo, and updated since. Dr. Elo's work was first implemented in the USA beginning from the 1940s, and then extended to FIDE. He was a professor of mathematics at Marquette University in Milwaukee, a multiple state champion for Wisconsin, and an active tournament player who encountered the y young Bobby Fischer. over the board!
What Mr. Sonas did was to create a very large database of historical and available chess results, going back into the 1800s, and create retrospective ratings for players of Master strength, using that database.
For Dr. Bohatirchuk, chessmetrics.com lists his rating at 2629 for October 1927, just after he tied with Peter Romanovsky in that year's Soviet Championships. That was good for #15 in the world; he kept that world rank for November 1927 as well. Dr. Bohatirchuk made 50 per cent at Moscow 1925, the first Soviet event which invited players from outside the USSR. It was one of the first super-tournaments. For that result, he scored a performance rating of 2628.
Chessmetrics.com lists only 14 tournaments for Dr, Bohatirchuk's career, including some after he settled in Canada. Several others that are known are missing. Mr, Sonas dug deeply, but there are clearly many other Russian and Soviet events, and some other European results, for Dr. Bohatirchuk, which he did not know about or use. For example, Prague 1946 -- a strong Master event, a team match format, dominated by Dr. Bohatirchuk and a young David Bronstein, is missing. His play under the alias 'Bogenko' is also missing from the file. I added in one 'Bogenko' result, a tournament win, to his wikipedia file.
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