Fedir Bohatyrchuk
Ukrainian chess player (1892–1984)
Fedir Parfenovych Bohatyrchuk (also Bogatirchuk, Bohatirchuk, Bogatyrtschuk; Ukrainian: Федір Парфенович Богатирчук; Russian: Фёдор Парфеньевич Богатырчук, romanized: Fyodor Parfenyevich Bogatyrchuk; 27 November 1892 – 4 September 1984) was a Ukrainian-Canadian chess player, doctor of medicine (radiologist), political activist, Kiev city councillor, university professor, and writer.
Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet chess
Early chess, trained by Chigorin
As a youth, Bohatyrchuk sometimes traveled to chess tournaments with the great player Mikhail Chigorin (1850–1908), who had in 1892 narrowly lost a match for the World Championship to Wilhelm Steinitz. Chigorin trained the young player, and influenced his style and openings.
In 1911, Bohatyrchuk won the Kiev City Championship; he was followed by Stefan Izbinsky, Efim Bogoljubow, et al. In 1912, he placed third in the All-Russian Championship. In February 1914, Bohatyrchuk lost an exhibition game against José Raúl Capablanca at Kiev. In 1914, he took third at Kiev.
Interned at Mannheim
In July/August 1914, Bohatyrchuk tied for 6th–10th at Mannheim (the 19th DSB Congress, Hauptturnier A, or Group II at the event; his group was set for a 17-player round-robin). He scored 5.5/10, with six of his games from the schedule not played, due to the outbreak of World War I. He was part of a group, along with ten other Russian players from the interrupted Mannheim tournament, which was interned by Germany after the declaration of war against Russia, which began World War I. In September 1914, Bohatyrchuk and three others (Alexander Alekhine, Peter Petrovich Saburov, and N. Koppelman) were freed and allowed to return home. Some writers have asserted that Alekhine used his family's influence to arrange this; his wealthy father was a member of the Duma of Czar Nicholas II at this time.
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