Georgy Borisenko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Ukrainian chess player (1922-2012)
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Place of Birth: Chuhuiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine
About Georgy Borisenko
- Georgy Konstantinovich Borisenko (May 25, 1922 in Chuhuiv, Ukraine—December 3, 2012 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan) was a Soviet correspondence chess grandmaster and chess theoretician.
- Among the players he trained were Nona Gaprindashvili, Valentina Borisenko (who was also his wife), Viktor Korchnoi, Mark Taimanov, and Timur Gareyev.
- He became a Russian Master of Sport in 1950 and a Russian Correspondence Grandmaster in 1966.
- He won the USSR Correspondence Championship twice, in 1957 and 1962, and came in second in 1965.
- One of his best-known games was played from 1960 to 1963 against Anatoly Rubezov, and is included in multiple anthologies of brilliant chess games.
- In 1973, David Bronstein described Borisenko as "one of our greatest theoretical experts." In Russia, the Breyer Variation of the Ruy Lopez is known as the "Borisenko-Furman" variation because Borisenko and Semyon Furman were central in bringing it into use in the 1950s.
- Another line of the Closed Ruy Lopez is also named after him; specifically, the line in the Chigorin Variation which goes 9...Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Nc6.
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