Peter Petrovich Potemkine (; 1886–1926) was a Russian

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

master. He took 7th at St. Petersburg 1904 (

Mikhail Chigorin Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also ''Tchigorin''; ; – ) was a Russian chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times. The last great player of the Romantic chess style, he also served as a ma ...

won), took 5th at St Petersburg 1907 (

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (; 16 August 1884 – 31 December 1954) was a Russian chess player, music and drama critic, teacher and author. Born in Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg Governorate, he settled in Paris in 1920, and lived there for the rest of hi ...

won, and took 8th at St Petersburg 1913 (

Andrey Smorodsky Andrey (Андрей) is a masculine given name predominantly used in Slavic languages, including Belarusian, Bulgarian, and Russian. The name is derived from the ancient Greek Andreas (Ἀνδρέας), meaning "man" or "warrior". In Eastern O ...

won). In winter 1912, he played with

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

Vasily Osipovich Smyslov Vasily Osipovich Smyslov (1881–1943) was a chess master, and the father of Vasily Vasilievich Smyslov, World Chess Champion from 1957–58. Born in Astrakhan, in the Volga Delta The Volga Delta is the largest river delta in Europe and occurs ...

(father of

Vasily Smyslov Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (; 24 March 1921 – 27 March 2010) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who was the seventh World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. He was a Candidates Tournament, Candidate for the World Chess Championship on ...

) in Sankt Petersburg. In 1920, he tied for 3rd-6th in Moscow (

Alexei Alekhine Alexei (Alexey) Alekhine (, ''Alekséy Aleksándrovich Alékhin'', 1888–1939) was a Russian chess master and the brother of World Chess Champion Alexander Alekhine. His father was a wealthy landowner, a Marshal of the Nobility and a member of ...

won). Count Potemkine was a

White émigré White Russian émigrés were Russians who emigrated from the territory of the former Russian Empire in the wake of the Russian Revolution (1917) and Russian Civil War (1917–1923), and who were in opposition to the revolutionary Bolshevik com ...

living in France. He officially represented Russia in

1st unofficial Chess Olympiad The 1st Team Chess Tournament was held together with the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, 12–20 July 1924, at the Hotel Majestic. Fifty-four players representing 18 countries were split into nine preliminary groups of six. The winner of each roun ...

at Paris 1924. He tied for 7-8th at Prague 1923 (

Karel Skalička Karel Skalička (Spanish: Carlos Skalicka) (1 November 1896, in Prague – 30 December 1979, in Buenos Aires) was a Czech-Argentine chess master. In 1924, he won a team gold medal for Czechoslovakia (Hromádka, Schulz, Vaněk, Skalička) in the 1s ...

won), tied for 4-7th at Paris 1924 (Znosko-Borovsky won), tied for 5-6th at Paris 1925 (

Victor Kahn Victor Kahn (; 1889 in Moscow – 6 October 1971 in Nice) was a Russian–French chess master. He was born in Moscow but left Russia in 1912 eventually ending up in France going via Sweden, Denmark and Germany. He won the Copenhagen Championship ...

won), and shared 1st with Vitaly Halberstadt at Paris 1926. In 1926, ''Le Cercle d'échecs Potemkine'' was established in Paris.index

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External links

Peter Potemkine at 365Chess.com
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