Gennady Kuzmin
Ukrainian chess player (1946–2020)
Gennady Pavlovich Kuzmin (Russian: Геннадий Павлович Кузьмин, Ukrainian: Геннадій Павлович Кузьмін, romanized: Hennadiy Pavlovych Kuzmin; January 19, 1946 – February 28, 2020) was a Ukrainian chess player and trainer. He reached his peak strength in the early to mid-1970s and in 1973, was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE, the governing body.
Career
Kuzmin competed in the Soviet Chess Championship eleven times between 1965 and 1991. His best results occurred in 1972 in Baku (3rd= behind Mikhail Tal and Vladimir Tukmakov) and 1973 in Moscow (2nd= behind Boris Spassky). The Baku final was also a qualifier for the 1973 Leningrad Interzonal, in which he placed seventh of eighteen players.
He was invited to compete at the Biel Interzonal in 1976, but ex-World Champion Vassily Smyslov played in his place. Kuzmin later expressed disquiet regarding that. A second Interzonal appearance occurred at Riga 1979, when he again finished in the top half of the table.
In other competition, he achieved outright or shared first place at Hastings 1973/74 (with László Szabó, Tal and Jan Timman), Baku 1977, Tallinn 1979, Kladovo 1980, Dortmund 1981 (with Jon Speelman and Ľubomír Ftáčnik) and Bangalore 1981. Other notable results included Lvov 1978 (third equal after Yuri Balashov and Rafael Vaganian) and Tallinn 1985 (second after Sergey Dolmatov).
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