Rauzer Vsevolod A

Full name

Vsevolod Rauzer

Life

Oct 16, 1908 - Dec 29, 1941 (age 33)‎

Place of birth

Federation

FIDE

Bio

Vsevolod Rauzer was a Ukrainian chess master and opening theoretician best known today as half the namesake of the Richter-Rauzer Variation of the Sicilian Defense, 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5. He shared first at the Ukrainian championships of 1927 and 1933.

Rauzer died in the Siege of Leningrad in 1941 after his career was cut short by mental health problems.

Best Game

Most Played Openings

White Pieces

Caro-Kann Defense: Two Knights Attack (4 games)

Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern, Knight Defense (4 games)

Ruy López Opening: Morphy Defense, Neo-Arkhangelsk Variation (3 games)

Modern Defense with 1.e4 (2 games)

Caro-Kann Defense: Two Knights, Mindeno, Exchange Line (2 games)

Black Pieces

French Defense: Classical, Burn Variation (3 games)

Réti Opening: Nimzowitsch-Larsen Attack (3 games)

Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack (3 games)

Ruy López Opening: Berlin Defense (2 games)

Catalan Opening: Closed (2 games)

Games

Players	Result	Moves	Year
Rauzer Vsevolod A Rudakovsky Iosif	½-½	46	1940
Rauzer Vsevolod A Pogrebyssky Iosif	½-½	36	1940
Rauzer Vsevolod A Goldberg Grigory A	½-½	53	1940
Rauzer Vsevolod A Vitaly A Chekhover (2520)	½-½	45	1940
Rauzer Vsevolod A Zhukhovitsky Samuel (2346)	0-1	19	1940
Rauzer Vsevolod A Peter V Dubinin (2450)	0-1	41	1940
Rauzer Vsevolod A Igor Z Bondarevsky (2570)	0-1	46	1940
Rauzer Vsevolod A Daniel Fridman (2559)	1-0	36	1940
Rauzer Vsevolod A Alexander Konstantinopolski (2520)	1-0	49	1937
Rauzer Vsevolod A Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky (2460)	0-1	18	1937

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