Levenfish, Grigory




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1909  28  2470 (55) 13
1910  31  2468 (42) 18
1911  23  2490 (34) 33
1912  18  2504 (36) 29
1913  22  2506 (44) 3
1914  23  2501 (45) 17
1915  21  2496 (57) 0
1916  25  2491 (62) 0
1917  25  2486 (64) 0
1918  26  2482 (62) 0
1919  27  2477 (57) 0
1920  29  2472 (46) 26
1921  17  2499 (50) 0
1922  15  2527 (45) 13
1923  2567 (41) 12
1924  2587 (36) 27
1925  10  2558 (33) 50
1926  15  2532 (46) 2
1927  17  2515 (50) 0
1928  19  2499 (47) 15
1929  25  2470 (49) 5
1930  35  2458 (50) 8
1931  31  2471 (54) 0
1932  22  2485 (51) 0
1933  16  2499 (40) 19
1934  24  2490 (36) 24
1935  11  2518 (32) 38
1936  14  2515 (33) 32
1937  11  2534 (34) 39
1938  13  2511 (42) 0
1939  21  2488 (35) 33
1940  26  2460 (39) 33

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Levenfish, Grigory Yakovlevich  
Born: 9 Mar. 1889
Died: 9 Feb. 1961
 
Notes:
Gaige in Chess Personalia has 'G.A. Levenfish', 'G.Y. Levenfish' and 'G.Ya. Levenfish'. I am guessing that all are the same person.
 
References
Books
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1901-1920, page 310
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1921-1930, page 329
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1931-1935, page 392
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1936-1940, page 362
   Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 247
   Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 65
   Soltis, Mikhail Botvinnik, page 22, 99
   Soltis, Soviet Chess, page 5, 11, 48, 444
   Thulin, Name index to CTC, page 152
   Woodger, Reuben Fine, page 352
Web
   Gorodin, Dmitry.  [On the background of international chess tournaments in Switzerland]

Match data  (f=formal; c=casual; s=soft)

Levenfish, G.Y. - List, P.M. 1910         (f)     4.5   -   4.5
Botvinnik, M.M. - Levenfish, G.Y. 1937         (f)     6.5   -   6.5
Levenfish, G.Y. - Alatortsev, V.A. 1940         (f)     8.5   -   5.5

Tournament data

Saint Petersburg 1909 (4)     Saint Petersburg Tournament     12  /  13
Saint Petersburg 1910     Saint Petersburg Tournament     6  /  9
Saint Petersburg 1911 (1)     Saint Petersburg - Moscow Match    
  Levenfish, G.Y. - Selezniev, A.S.     0.5 - 0.5    
Carlsbad 1911     Carlsbad Tournament     11.5  /  25
Saint Petersburg 1911 (2)     Saint Petersburg City Championship     5  /  7
Moscow 1912     Moscow - Saint Petersburg Team Match    
  Levenfish, G.Y. - Blumenfeld, B.M.     0.5 - 0.5    
Saint Petersburg 1912 (2)     Saint Petersburg 1st Category Tournament     6.5  /  9
Vilnius 1912 (1)     Russian National Tournament - Meisterturnier     9.5  /  19
Saint Petersburg 1913 (1)     Saint Petersburg Quadrangular Tournament     2  /  3
Saint Petersburg 1914 (1)     All-Russian Championship     10.5  /  17
Moscow 1920 (2)     All Russian Chess Olympiad - Championship Tournament     10  /  15
Leningrad 1920     1st Leningrad Championship     7  /  11
Leningrad 1922 (1)     Leningrad City Championship     9  /  11
Leningrad 1922 (2)     Leningrad - Moscow Match    
  Levenfish, G.Y. - Dus-Chotimirsky, F.I.     0 - 2    
Leningrad 1923 (1)     2nd Soviet Union Congress - Championship Tournament     9  /  12
Moscow 1924 (1)     3rd Soviet Congress - Championship     11.5  /  17
Leningrad 1924 (2)     3rd Leningrad Championship     8.5  /  10
Leningrad 1925 (2)     4th Soviet Union Championship     13  /  19
Moscow 1925 (3)     Moscow Tournament     9  /  20
Leningrad 1925 (4)     4th Leningrad Championship     8.5  /  11
Moscow 1926 (1)     4th Moscow - Leningrad Team Match    
  Levenfish, G.Y. - Zubarev, N.M.     1.5 - 0.5    
Leningrad 1928 (2)     6th Leningrad City Championship     11.5  /  15
Leningrad 1929 (4)     7th Leningrad City Championship - Preliminary Section B     2.5  /  5
Leningrad 1930 (1)     Leningrad Master Tournament     3.5  /  8
Leningrad 1933 (3)     8th U.S.S.R. Championship     12  /  19
Leningrad 1934 (2)     Leningrad Tournament     7.5  /  13
Leningrad 1934 (3)     Leningrad International Tournament     4  /  11
Leningrad 1935 (1)     9th U.S.S.R. Championship     12  /  19
Moscow 1935 (1)     Moscow International Tournament     10.5  /  19
Leningrad 1936 (2)     11th Leningrad Championship     8.5  /  14
Moscow 1936 (2)     Moscow International Tournament     7.5  /  18
Leningrad 1937 (1)     Leningrad Tournament     3  /  5
Tbilisi 1937 (1)     10th U.S.S.R. Championship     12.5  /  19
Leningrad 1937 (2)     Moscow - Leningrad Team Match    
  Levenfish, G.Y. - Alatortsev, V.A.     1 - 1    
Moscow and Leningrad 1939     Moscow-Leningrad Training Tournament     10  /  17
Leningrad 1939 (1)     11th U.S.S.R. Championship     7.5  /  16
Moscow 1940 (2)     12th U.S.S.R. Championship     6.5  /  19


Player information updated: 13 Feb. 2024