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Yakov Vilner
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<h2 id="biography">Biography</h2> <p>Vilner won the Odesa chess championships four times (1918, 1923, 1925, and 1928). He won the Ukrainian championships three times; at Kyiv 1924 (ahead of <a href="/facts/Fedor_Bohatirchuk/A9DmsgkE">Fedor Bohatirchuk</a>), at Kharkiv 1925 (ahead of <a href="/facts/Nikolai_Sorokin/Plx7KwhT">Nikolai Sorokin</a>), and at Odesa 1928 (with <a href="/facts/Vladimir_Kirillov/rFj0oz4l">Vladimir Kirillov</a>). He also won at Odesa 1926 (ahead of Russo), and at Kyiv 1929 (with Bohatirchuk).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> </p><p>He played in several Soviet chess championships. In July 1923, he tied for 11-13th in Petrograd (2nd URS-ch; <a href="/facts/Peter_Romanovsky/xF23Ie4K">Peter Romanovsky</a> won). In September 1924, he tied for 6-8th in Moscow (3rd URS-ch; <a href="/facts/Efim_Bogoljubow/IeFFrtJU">Efim Bogoljubow</a> won). In 1925, he tied for 11-13th in Leningrad (4th URS-ch; Bogoljubow won). In October 1927, he tied for 15-17th in Moscow (5th URS-ch; Bohatirchuk and Romanovsky won). In September 1929, he tied for 8-9th in Odesa (6th URS-ch qual.; <a href="/facts/Boris_Verlinsky/GnRFXmre">Boris Verlinsky</a> won).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> Unfortunately, Vilner died young due to chronic asthma.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="notable-chess-games">Notable chess games</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1030804">Efim Bogoljubow vs Yakov Vilner, Leningrad 1925, 4th URS-ch, Semi-Slav Defense, Meran Variation, D49, 0-1</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1031692">Yakov Vilner vs Mikhail Botvinnik, Moscow 1927, 5th URS-ch, Amazon Attack, Siberian Attack, A45, 1-0</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1242928">Nikolai Sorokin vs Yakov Vilner, Odessa 1929, 6th URS-ch, Slav Defense, Schallopp Variation, D12, 0-1</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>https://www.webcitation.org/5kmWcNt8V?url=http://www.geocities.com/al2055km/ch_repub.html RUSBASE, part V <a href="https://www.webcitation.org/5kmWcNt8V?url=http://www.geocities.com/al2055km/ch_repub.html" target="_blank">https://www.webcitation.org/5kmWcNt8V?url=http://www.geocities.com/al2055km/ch_repub.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>https://www.webcitation.org/5kmWclrE2?url=http://www.geocities.com/al2055km/ch_urs.html RUSBASE, part V <a href="https://www.webcitation.org/5kmWclrE2?url=http://www.geocities.com/al2055km/ch_urs.html" target="_blank">https://www.webcitation.org/5kmWclrE2?url=http://www.geocities.com/al2055km/ch_urs.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Tkachenko, Sergei (14 October 2019). Yakov Vilner, First Ukrainian Chess Champion and First USSR Chess Composition Champion: A World Champion's Favorite Composers. ISBN 978-5604071069. <a href="978-5604071069" target="_blank">978-5604071069</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>