Alexandr Moyseyevich Evensohn (Evenson, Evensson) (1892–1919) was a Russian

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master.

Biography

In 1909, Evensohn took 7th at

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. The event was won by Nikolaev. In 1911, he took 3rd, behind

Efim Bogoljubow Efim Bogoljubow, also known as Efim Dimitrijewitsch Bogoljubow (April 14, 1889 – June 18, 1952), was a Russian-born German Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster. Early career Bogoljubow learned how to play chess at 15 years old, and dev ...

and Izbinsky, at Kyiv. In 1911, he took 4th at Kyiv. The event was won by Fedor Bohatirchuk. In 1913, he won, followed by

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, et al., at

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. In January 1914, he took 9th at St. Petersburg in the Russian Championship; the event was won by

Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine. He disliked when Russians sometimes pronounced the of as , , which he regarded as a Yiddish distortion of his name, and insisted that the correct Russian pronunciation was . (March 24, 1946) was a Russian ...

and

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. In 1914, he won, ahead of Bogoljubow and Bohatirchuk, at Kyiv. During

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, in 1916, Evensohn lost a mini-match against Alekhine at Kyiv (+1 –2 =0). Also in 1918, he lost against Alekhine at Kyiv. Evensohn was a lawyer by training and served on a military tribunal for the

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. During the

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, he was shot by the

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Notable chess games

Andrey Smorodsky vs Alexander Evensohn, St Petersburg 1914, Queen's Pawn Game, D04, 0-1

External links

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