Georgy Borisenko | |
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Full name | Georgy Konstantinovich Borisenko |
Country | USSR |
Born | Chuhuiv, USSR | May 25, 1922
Died | December 3, 2012 Tashkent, Uzbekistan | (aged 90)
Title | Russian Correspondence Grandmaster |
Peak rating | 2440 (May 1974) [1] |
Georgy Konstantinovich Borisenko (May 25, 1922 — December 3, 2012) was a Soviet correspondence chess grandmaster and chess theoretician. [2] Among the players he trained were Nona Gaprindashvili, Valentina Borisenko (who was also his wife), [2] Viktor Korchnoi, Mark Taimanov, [3] and Timur Gareyev. [2] He became a Russian Master of Sport in 1950 and a Russian Correspondence Grandmaster in 1966. He won the USSR Correspondence Championship twice, in 1957 and 1962, and came in second in 1965. [3] One of his best-known games was played from 1960 to 1963 against Anatoly Rubezov, and is included in multiple anthologies of brilliant chess games. [4] In 1973, David Bronstein described Borisenko as "one of our greatest theoretical experts." [5] In Russia, the Breyer Variation of the Ruy Lopez is known as the "Borisenko-Furman" variation because Borisenko and Semyon Furman were central in bringing it into use in the 1950s. [6] Another line of the Closed Ruy Lopez is also named after him; specifically, the line in the Chigorin Variation which goes 9...Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Nc6. [7] [8] His son with Valentina Borisenko is also a chess player and holds a Candidate Master title.