and as I would read thru the complex openings in the MCO or the BCO his name would often come up with some interesting Novelty...Hence I called him "The Great Sveshnikov"...we will miss him...RIP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Sveshnikov
https://www.chess.com/news/view/evgeny- ... -1950-2021
"Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov (Russian: Евгений Эллинович Све́шников; Latvian: Jevgēņijs Svešņikovs; 11 February 1950 – 18 August 2021[1]) was a Russian chess player and writer. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1977
Chess career[edit]
Sveshnikov played in his first USSR Chess Championship when he was 17 years old. He was awarded by FIDE the titles International Master in 1975 and Grandmaster in 1977.
In his early international competitions, he was a joint winner at Decin 1974, shared first place (with Lev Polugaevsky) at Sochi 1976 and won category 8 tournaments at Le Havre 1977 and Cienfuegos 1979. At Novi Sad in 1979, he shared second prize with Efim Geller behind Florin Gheorghiu. At Wijk aan Zee in 1981, he shared 3rd place and in 1983, was joint champion of Moscow. Sveshnikov won the Latvian Chess Championship in 2003 and 2010. In 2017, Sveshnikov won the 65+ section of the World Senior Chess Championship.Known as one of the most outspoken and controversial grandmasters on the circuit, Sveshnikov has in recent years been linked with player revolts over the handing in of gamescores. It is accepted practice that players submit copies of their gamescores to tournament organisers and these games later appear on the internet, in books, magazines and in database programs. Whilst the benefits to the development and popularisation of chess are obvious, Sveshnikov insists that it is not in the best interests of chess professionals to allow this to continue.
Most fundamentally, it is very difficult for chess players to earn a living; he speaks of many chess players in Russia and the Baltic States suffering severe depression and in some cases committing suicide. Georgy Ilivitsky, Alvis Vītoliņš, Karen Grigorian, Lembit Oll and Alexey Vyzmanavin are prominent examples.
The theoretician
It is, however, the work that Sveshnikov did with his close friend Grandmaster Gennady Timoshchenko during the 1960s and 1970s that bears greatest testimony to his chess achievements.
Previously known as the Lasker-Pelikan variation of the Sicilian Defence, Sveshnikov's system was considered of dubious merit until he transformed it into an exciting and fully playable opening. The balance between winning and losing is often on a knife edge, making it an attractive proposition for black players seeking the full point. Mark Taimanov, in an interview, described it as chess opening theory's "last great discovery". That it is now regularly played by the world's leading grandmasters lends credence to this view. Vladimir Kramnik and Valery Salov are regarded as expert practitioners of the Sicilian Sveshnikov (categorised by the moves 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 - the Sveshnikov 'proper' continuing 6.Ndb5 d6), but Kasparov, Shirov, Leko and Khalifman have also enjoyed success with it. Moreover, Magnus Carlsen employed this opening several times during the World Chess Championship 2018 match with Fabiano Caruana. The opening is rich in its tactical possibilities and despite being subjected to deep analysis, continues to flourish with new ideas being regularly unearthed. Sveshnikov has authored a comprehensive book on this variation, modestly titled The Sicilian Pelikan.
He has also been a pioneer in the development of the Advance Variation of the French Defence and of the Alapin Variation of the Sicilian Defence."
Evgeny Sveshnikov vs Igor Ivanov
USSR 22/574 (1976)
Caro-Kann Defense: Panov Attack
[pgn]1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4 e6 5.Nc3 Nf6 6.Nf3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 Be7 8.O-O O-O 9.Re1 Nc6 10.Bf4 b6 11.d5 Na5 12.d6 Nxc4 13.dxe7 Qxe7 14.Qe2 Nd6 15.Rad1 Rd8 16.Qd3 Nb7 17.Nd4 Qc5 18.Be5 Ng4 19.Bg3 e5 20.b4 Qxb4 21.Bxe5 Be6 22.Qg3 Nc5 23.Nc6 Rxd1 24.Rxd1 Qb2 25.Bd4 Nd7 26.h3 Ngf6 27.Nd5 Qc2 28.Nxf6 +Nxf6 29.Bxf6 Qxd1+ 30.Kh2 g6 31.Qf4 Qh5 32.Bd4 Kf8 33. Qd6+ Kg8 34.Ne7+ Kf8 35.Nxg6+ Kg8 36.Qf8+ [/pgn] 1-0
