Platonov Memorial

[MichaelAtkins]

Running alongside the Washington International starting this weekend is also the Platonov Memorial. This is a strong six player Round Robin organized by GM Sam Palatnik whose Chief Arbiter is IA Eduard Duchovny. The average FIDE rating is 2550 and consists of three US players who have been mainstays in the US for decades, plus three GMs who are well known in their own right. The Maryland Chess Website will cover this event and most likely have live games for this event and the top 3-4 boards in the International.

■GM Lev Alburt
■GM Boris Gulko
■GM Gregory Kaidanov
■GM Valdimir Malaniuk
■GM Adrian Mikhalchishin
■GM Mikhail Gurevich

[Flying_Rook]

Looking forward to spending a lot of time watching the GM’s play this weekend without having to worry about my own games for a change!

[mregan]

Mike,
I just heard that Malaniuk will not be able to make it and that Sam Platanik will take his place in the tournament.
Mike Regan

[nocab]

And I was so looking forward to watching Malaniuk play the Leningrad Dutch!
Armchair Warrior

[alex_beale]

The USCF blurb says “Running concurrently with the Washington International will be the Platonov Memorial Tournament. This is a six-player round robin tournament dedicated to the memory of GM Igor Platonov.”

The FIDE site does not appear to list him as a GM. Was he a GM?

[eastside]

@alex beale

The USCF blurb says “Running concurrently with the Washington International will be the Platonov Memorial Tournament. This is a six-player round robin tournament dedicated to the memory of GM Igor Platonov.”

The FIDE site does not appear to list him as a GM. Was he a GM?

AFAIK, the FIDE ratings site does not list players known to be deceased.

FWIW, Platonov’s Wikipedia entry says he was a GM, and has said that since it was created in 2007.

[alex_beale]

@eastside

@alex beale

The USCF blurb says “Running concurrently with the Washington International will be the Platonov Memorial Tournament. This is a six-player round robin tournament dedicated to the memory of GM Igor Platonov.”

The FIDE site does not appear to list him as a GM. Was he a GM?

AFAIK, the FIDE ratings site does not list players known to be deceased.

FWIW, Platonov’s Wikipedia entry says he was a GM, and has said that since it was created in 2007.

Thank you. I clicked on the link you gave and here is what it said: “Platonov had no international title (FM, IM, GM) at all.”

[eastside]

@alex beale

@eastside

@alex beale

The USCF blurb says “Running concurrently with the Washington International will be the Platonov Memorial Tournament. This is a six-player round robin tournament dedicated to the memory of GM Igor Platonov.”

The FIDE site does not appear to list him as a GM. Was he a GM?

AFAIK, the FIDE ratings site does not list players known to be deceased.

FWIW, Platonov’s Wikipedia entry says he was a GM, and has said that since it was created in 2007.

Thank you. I clicked on the link you gave and here is what it said: “Platonov had no international title (FM, IM, GM) at all.”

In two different places on the same page (one before the quote you gave, and one after), it says that he had earned the “Soviet Grandmaster” title. (So the USSR awarded its own GM title, perhaps?)

This (unofficial) ratings history seems to indicate that he hadn’t been active since 1981, and had his best results in the early 70s, when he was in the world’s top 100 players.

[Drantos]

There’s a “Grandmaster Ilya Platonov” who plays a major role in “Stalin’s Ghost,” one of the successor novels to Martin Cruz Smith’s “Gorky Park.” The author also describes some games (not very well) that are tangential to the plot.