Ragozin Viacheslav Vasilievich (08.10.1908 – 11.03.1962)
Soviet Grandmaster (1950) and Grandmaster in Correspondence Chess (1959) born in Russia. International Arbiter 1951, chess theorist, journalist and author. Civil engineer. An accident at the factory where he was working disfigured one of his hands.
Winner of the second World Correspondence Championship in 1956-1958 (+9=4-1). Vice-President of FIDE during between 1950 and 1961. Coach and second of the World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik at the World Championship Matches in 1948 and 1951. Editor of the magazine Shakhmaty v SSSR 1946-55 and Shakhmatny Bulletin 1955-61.
Eleven times he participated in the USSR championships; his best result was sharing the second-third place in 1937. Champion of Leningrad in 1936 and 1945, he won also at Sverdlosk in 1942, was the second at the Moscow championship in 1944.
Best results: Moscow 1936, 5th; Helsinki 1946, 1st; Moscow 1947, 2nd; Marianske Lazne 1956, 2nd; Gotheborg 1958, 2nd-3rd; Iochoping 1958-59, 3rd.
In matches, he beat Ilyin Zhenevsky (+6-4=2) in 1930, Bondarevsky (+7-3=2)0 in 1946.
His major works: Botvinnik-Tal 1960 Match, Ragozin’s Best Games (1964). Twenty years later Vyacheslav Ragozin, edited by M.M. Yudovich, containing 100 games, 89 of which are annotated.
