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Moscow

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 – 1942, Omsk

Omsk

-History:The wooden fort of Omsk was erected in 1716 to protect the expanding Russian frontier along the Ishim and the Irtysh rivers against the Kyrgyz nomads of the Steppes...

) was a Russian

Russians

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 chess

Chess

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 master, one of the strongest Soviet players of the 1930s.

Riumin was Moscow Champion

Moscow City Chess Championship

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 in 1931, 1933/34, and 1935. He played in four Soviet Championships

USSR Chess Championship

This is a list of all the winners of the USSR Chess Championship. It was the strongest national chess championship ever held, with eight world chess champions and four world championship finalists among its winners...

. In 1929, he took 5th in a quarter final group in Odessa

Odessa

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 (6th URS-ch; Boris Verlinsky

Boris Verlinsky

Boris Markovich Verlinsky was a Ukrainian-Russian International Master of chess. He was one of the top Soviet players of the 1920s, and was in the top 20 in the world in 1926, clearly of Grandmaster strength at that time...

 won). In 1931, he achieved his best result, 2nd after Mikhail Botvinnik

Mikhail Botvinnik

Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik, Ph.D. was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and three-time World Chess Champion. Working as an electrical engineer and computer scientist at the same time, he was one of the very few famous chess players who achieved distinction in another career while...

 in Moscow (7th URS-ch). In 1933, he tied for 10-11th in Leningrad

Leningrad

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 (8th URS-ch; Botvinnik won). In 1934/35, he tied for 3rd-4th with Fedor Bogatyrchuk

Fedor Bogatyrchuk

Fedir Parfenovych Bohatyrchuk was a Ukrainian-Canadian International Master of chess, and an...

, in Leningrad (9th URS-ch; Grigory Levenfish

Grigory Levenfish

Grigory Yakovlevich Levenfish was a leading Jewish Russian chess grandmaster of the 1920s and 1930s. He was twice Soviet champion - in 1934 and 1937. In 1937 he tied a match against future world champion Mikhail Botvinnik...

 and Ilya Rabinovich

Ilya Rabinovich

Ilya Rabinovich was a Russian chess master.-Biography:In 1911 Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich tied for 1st with Platz in Saint Petersburg...

 won).

His best International result was at Leningrad 1934 where he shared 2nd place with Peter Romanovsky

Peter Romanovsky

Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky was a Russian chess International Master, International Arbiter, and author.-Biography:At the beginning of his career in Sankt Petersburg, he shared fourth place in 1908 , tied for 10-11th in 1909 , took second place behind Smorodsky in 1913, and shared first with...

, behind Botvinnik, and ahead of Max Euwe

Max Euwe

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. In 1935, he won in Göteborg. In 1935, he tied for 11-14th in Moscow (Botvinnik and Salo Flohr

Salo Flohr

Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr was a leading Czech and later Soviet chess grandmaster of the mid-20th century, who became a national hero in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. His name was used to sell many of the luxury products of the time, including Salo Flohr cigarettes, slippers and eau-de-cologne...

 won). In 1936, he tied for 7-10th in Moscow (José Raúl Capablanca

José Raúl Capablanca

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 won). Ill-health started to affect him in 1936, and he died from tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

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 during World War II

World War II

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 in Omsk, Siberia

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.

Riumin's name has been attached to two chess opening

Chess opening

A chess opening is the group of initial moves of a chess game. Recognized sequences of opening moves are referred to as openings as initiated by White or defenses, as created in reply by Black. There are many dozens of different openings, and hundreds of named variants. The Oxford Companion to...

 variations. The Riumin Variation of the Queen's Indian Defence was analyzed by Riumin, Vladimir Alatortsev

Vladimir Alatortsev

Vladimir Alexeyevich Alatortsev , was a Russian chess grandmaster, organizer, teacher, author, and administrator. During his career, he became champion of both Leningrad and Moscow, and played nine times in the Soviet Chess Championship finals, with his best competitive results in the 1930s...

, and Andor Lilienthal

Andor Lilienthal

Andor Arnoldovich Lilienthal was a Hungarian and Soviet chess Grandmaster. In his long career, he played against ten male and female world champions, beating Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, and Vera Menchik...

: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Be7. The Moscow or Rauzer Variation of the Sicilian Defence

Sicilian Defence

The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the moves:The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4...

is sometimes also called the Riumin Variation: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.f3.

Living chess

The game was held in 1934, at the Stalin Motorworks factory in Moscow. The players were Mikhail Botvinnik (USSR champion) and Nikolai Riumin (Moscow champion). The "pieces" were represented in the following way:

Kings - weightlifters

Queens - tennis players

Rooks - athletes armed with machine guns(!)

Bishops - cyclists

Knights - javelin throwers

Pawns - football players

The game ended in a draw after 36 moves.