Bidmonfa. Vaga. Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Rafael Vaganian.
White to move and win except where noted. Solutions are between the brackets under each puzzle. Drag your cursor from one bracket to the other. a) White Mates in 4. B) Vaganian vs Amanmurad Kakageldyev, URS, 1969r3kb1r/pb1n1ppp/4pP2/1B1qN3/8/1P1p4/1P1BQPPP/R3K2R w - - 0 1[ Bxd7+ if Qxd7 Qg4 ] c) Vaganian vs Rene Borngaesser, Athens, 19718/3Q1nkp/5bp1/p7/1p2NP1P/1q4P1/6BK/8 w - - 0 1[ Nc5 ] d) Vaganian vs Valentins Kirilov, Daugavpils, 1971r3r1k1/1p1R1pbp/2p3p1/p1P5/Nq2Pn2/7P/PPQ2PB1/3R2K1 w - - 0 1[ a3 if Qb5 Bf1 ] e) RAFAEL VAGANIAN - Gambit Blog. The Week in Chess. Vaganian, Rafael A FIDE Chess Profile. Rafael Vaganian.
Rafael Vaganian. Rafael Vaganian. The chess games of Rafael Vaganian. Rafael Vaganian Number of games in database: 1,902 Years covered: 1967 to 2014 Last FIDE rating: 2570Highest rating achieved in database: 2662Overall record: +650 -332 =835 (58.8%)* * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games Based on games in the database; may be incomplete. 85 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.
NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?] Reshevsky vs Vaganian, 1976 0-1 Vaganian vs G Botterill, 1974 1-0 Vaganian vs Kupreichik, 1974 1-0 Vaganian vs P Nikolic, 1985 1-0 Lautier vs Vaganian, 2004 0-1 Van der Wiel vs Vaganian, 1993 0-1 Vaganian vs G Forintos, 1975 1-0 Vaganian vs Korchnoi, 1975 1-0 Vaganian vs Sveshnikov, 1980 1-0 Vaganian vs Hjartarson, 1991 1-0 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: [what is this?] FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004)NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?] Spot an error? The Anniversary of GM Rafael Vaganian. FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov attended the celebration of the 60th Aniniversary of the prominent Armenian Grand Master Rafael Vaganian.
President of Armenia and President of the Armenian Chess Federation Serzh Sargsyan congratulated the player and presented him the state award with the keys from the new residence. The members of Armenian chess team who won the World Team Championship were also honored during the ceremony. Players were awarded with a state order and received a 100.000 USD prize. The state award was presented to the leading woman chess player of Armenia Elina Danielian. FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov congratulated Rafael and presented him a white horse and FIDE branded watch. FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, President of Armenia and President of the Armenian Chess Federation Serzh Sargsyan, Grand Master Rafael Vaganian. Left: President of Armenia and President of the Armenian Chess Federation Serzh Sargsyan, Grand Master Rafael Vaganian.
Congratulations. Concert. RAFAEL VAGANIAN. Rafael Vaganian - Famous Armenian Sportspeople. Rafael Vaganian. Rafael Artemovich Vaganian, also transliterated Vahanyan (Armenian: Ռաֆայել Վահանյան, Russian: Рафаэль Артёмович Ваганян), is an Armenian chess grandmaster known for his sharp tactical style of play.
Vaganian was born on 15 October 1951 in Yerevan. Chess career[edit] A cheerful and popular character on the grandmaster circuit, his tournament record is outstanding and includes further victories at Kragujevac 1974, São Paulo 1977, Kirovakan 1978, Las Palmas 1979, Manila 1981, Hastings 1982/83, Biel 1985 (the Interzonal), Leningrad 1987, Toronto 1990 and Ter Apel 1992. At Moscow 1982 and Tallinn 1983, he shared first place with Mikhail Tal and at Næstved 1985 with Walter Browne and Bent Larsen.
He won twice the Reggio Emilia chess tournament, the 35th edition 1992/93 and the 37th edition 1994/95. At Odessa in 1989, he won the 56th Soviet Championship on his 38th birthday. He was a world championship Candidate twice, losing out to Andrei Sokolov in 1986 and to Lajos Portisch in 1988.