Selezniev, Alexey




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1908  148  2330 (52) 14
1909  140  2340 (45) 18
1910  122  2354 (44) 12
1911  97  2379 (42) 14
1912  121  2354 (38) 20
1913  116  2352 (35) 34
1914  87  2376 (35) 24
1915  50  2417 (35) 35
1916  41  2437 (38) 28
1917  31  2471 (40) 24
1918  32  2475 (45) 0
1919  27  2478 (38) 24
1920  32  2456 (34) 29
1921  41  2445 (35) 31
1922  38  2445 (36) 18
1923  31  2471 (37) 13
1924  34  2463 (33) 30
1925  55  2425 (31) 46
1926  74  2407 (41) 0
1927  97  2388 (34) 35
1928  117  2377 (36) 32
1929  160  2361 (38) 23
1930  160  2355 (40) 15
1931  208  2337 (37) 41
1932  220  2324 (44) 12
1933  238  2316 (43) 12
1934  302  2295 (42) 19
1935  416  2264 (46) 0
1936  538  2233 (39) 34
1937  576  2219 (49) 7
1938  604  2206 (58) 8

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Selezniev, Alexey Sergeevich  
   Also known as: A. Seleznev
Born: 1888
Died: June 1967
 
Notes:
Golombek gives date of death as 1965; Hooper and Whyld give 1967; Gaige gives 06-1967.
 
References
Books
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1901-1920, page 316
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1921-1930, page 337
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1931-1935, page 402
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1936-1940, page 372
   Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 384
   Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia, page 291
   Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 17
   Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (2nd ed.), page 222
   Hooper and Brandreth, Unknown Capablanca, page 22
   Soltis, Mikhail Botvinnik, page 36
   Soltis, Soviet Chess, page 9, 28, 145
   Thulin, Name index to CTC, page 244
Web
   Popovsky, Alexey.  [Championship of Donbass- 1930]
   Sericano, C.  [Maestri di scacchi dal 1900 al 1944]
Match data  (f=formal; c=casual; s=soft)

Alekhine, A.A. - Selezniev, A.S. 1914         (f)     0.5   -   0.5
Fahrni, H. - Selezniev, A.S. 1916         (f)     3   -   3
Bogoljubow, E.D. - Selezniev, A.S. 1917         (f)     4.5   -   3.5
Selezniev, A.S. - Tenner, O. 1919         (f)     4.5   -   1.5
Selezniev, A.S. - Shories, G.F.W. 1919         (f)     4.5   -   1.5
Selezniev, A.S. - von Bardeleben, C.C.A. 1920         (f)     4   -   2
Selezniev, A.S. - Teichmann, R. 1921         (f)     1.5   -   0.5
Bohatirchuk, F.P. - Selezniev, A.S. 1928         (f)     1.5   -   1.5

Tournament data

Moscow 1908 (1)     Moscow Club Autumn Tournament     8.5  /  14
Moscow 1909 (1)     Moscow Club Autumn Tournament     4.5  /  9
Moscow 1909 (2)     Moscow Club Spring Tournament     7  /  10
Moscow 1910 (2)     Moscow National Tournament     3.5  /  8
Moscow 1910 (3)     Moscow Autumn Tournament     9  /  12
Moscow 1911     Moscow City Championship     11.5  /  13
Saint Petersburg 1911 (1)     Saint Petersburg - Moscow Match    
  Selezniev, A.S. - Levenfish, G.Y.     0.5 - 0.5    
Moscow 1912     Moscow - Saint Petersburg Team Match    
  Selezniev, A.S. - Romanovsky, A.A.     0.5 - 0.5    
Vilnius 1912 (2)     Russian National Tournament - Hauptturnier     10.5  /  19
Moscow 1913 (1)     Moscow 1st Category Tournament     5.5  /  9
Moscow 1913 (2)     Moscow Tournament     1.5  /  5
Moscow 1913 (3)     Moscow Championship     6  /  11
Moscow 1913 (4)     Moscow Tournament     7.5  /  9
Mannheim 1914 (2)     19th German Chess Federation Congress - Hauptturnier A     5.5  /  11
Baden-Baden 1914     1st Tournament of Interned Russian Players     5.5  /  12
Triberg 1915 (1)     2nd Tournament of Interned Russian Players     3.5  /  10
Triberg 1915 (2)     3rd Tournament of Interned Russian Players     2  /  5
Triberg 1915 (3)     4th Tournament of Interned Russian Players     7  /  10
Triberg 1915 (4)     5th Tournament of Interned Russian Players     6  /  10
Triberg 1916 (1)     6th Tournament of Interned Russian Players     4.5  /  12
Triberg 1916 (2)     7th Tournament of Interned Russian Players     5.5  /  10
Triberg 1917     8th Tournament of Interned Russian Players     10  /  16
Berlin 1919 (1)     Berlin Tournament     3  /  6
Berlin 1919 (2)     Café Kerkau Tournament     4  /  6
Berlin 1920 (1)     Berlin Friedensturnier     8  /  10
Goteborg 1920 (1)     Göteborg Tournament - Section A     4  /  13
Goteborg 1921     Goteborg Winter Tournament     7.5  /  10
Triberg 1921 (1)     Triberg Tournament     3  /  8
Triberg 1921 (2)     Triberg Tournament     4  /  12
Pistyan 1922 (1)     Breyer Memorial Master Tournament     7  /  18
Moravska Ostrava 1923     Mahrisch Ostrau Master Tournament     7.5  /  13
Merano 1924 (1)     Merano Congress - Master Tournament     7.5  /  13
Moscow 1924 (1)     3rd Soviet Congress - Championship     9.5  /  17
Leningrad 1925 (2)     4th Soviet Union Championship     9  /  19
Moscow 1925 (2)     Moscow Tournament     3.5  /  8
Moscow 1925 (4)     6th Moscow Championship     9.5  /  16
Moscow 1925 (5)     Transport Club Tournament     10  /  14
Poltava 1927     4th Ukrainian Championship     11.5  /  15
Moscow 1927 (4)     5th Soviet Union Congress - Championship     8  /  20
Odessa 1928     5th Ukrainian Championship     9.5  /  15
Rostov-on-Don 1928 (2)     North Caucasian Region Championship     9.5  /  14
Odessa 1929 (4)     6th Soviet Union Championship - Quarter-Finals, Section 4     3  /  8
Rostov-on-Don 1929     Rostov-on-Don National Tournament     2.5  /  3
Krasnodar 1929     Krasnodar Tournament     4.5  /  6
Kharkov 1929 (2)     Kharkov 1st Category Tournament     4.5  /  7
Tiflis 1930 (1)     Tournament of Caucasian Republics, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan     4.5  /  10
Donbas 1930     Donbas Championship     5  /  5
Stalino 1931 (1)     Ukrainian Championship Preliminary Tournament     6.5  /  10
Kharkov 1931 (1)     6th Ukrainian Championship     6  /  11
Moscow 1931 (6)     7th USSR Championship Semi-Finals - Group 6     5  /  9
Stalino 1931 (2)     Stalino Championship     10  /  11
Stalino 1932     Stalino Championship     10.5  /  12
Kharkov 1933 (1)     Ukrainian Team Championship - Board 1     2  /  4
Kharkov 1933 (6)     7th Ukrainian Championship     3.5  /  8
Stalino 1934     Donetsk Region Championship     9  /  11
Tiflis 1934 (1)     Tiflis International Tournament     6  /  13
Kiev 1936 (1)     8th Ukrainian Championship     7.5  /  17
Leningrad 1936 (3)     Leningrad Master Tournament     2.5  /  17
Kiev 1937 (1)     Moscow - Ukraine Match    
  Selezniev, A.S. - Riumin, N.N.     0.5 - 1.5    
Donbas 1937     Donbas Championship     8.5  /  11
Donbas 1938     Donbas Championship     7  /  11
Stalino 1938     Stalino Championship     7  /  11

Player information updated: 12 Apr. 2025