Levenfish, Grigory
Ratings
| Year |
Rank |
Edo |
Dev. |
Games |
| 1909 |
27 |
2484 | (54) | 13 |
| 1910 |
29 |
2479 | (42) | 18 |
| 1911 |
21 |
2500 | (33) | 33 |
| 1912 |
19 |
2516 | (35) | 29 |
| 1913 |
20 |
2518 | (44) | 3 |
| 1914 |
23 |
2512 | (45) | 17 |
| 1915 |
20 |
2508 | (56) | 0 |
| 1916 |
23 |
2503 | (62) | 0 |
| 1917 |
19 |
2499 | (64) | 0 |
| 1918 |
24 |
2495 | (62) | 0 |
| 1919 |
22 |
2490 | (57) | 0 |
| 1920 |
24 |
2486 | (45) | 26 |
| 1921 |
17 |
2514 | (49) | 0 |
| 1922 |
13 |
2541 | (45) | 13 |
| 1923 |
8 |
2582 | (41) | 12 |
| 1924 |
7 |
2601 | (35) | 27 |
| 1925 |
10 |
2571 | (32) | 50 |
| 1926 |
13 |
2546 | (46) | 2 |
| 1927 |
15 |
2530 | (50) | 0 |
| 1928 |
18 |
2514 | (46) | 15 |
| 1929 |
22 |
2485 | (49) | 5 |
| 1930 |
30 |
2472 | (49) | 8 |
| 1931 |
27 |
2486 | (53) | 0 |
| 1932 |
18 |
2499 | (50) | 0 |
| 1933 |
14 |
2513 | (40) | 19 |
| 1934 |
22 |
2503 | (35) | 24 |
| 1935 |
11 |
2532 | (31) | 38 |
| 1936 |
13 |
2528 | (32) | 32 |
| 1937 |
11 |
2547 | (33) | 39 |
| 1938 |
14 |
2523 | (41) | 0 |
| 1939 |
21 |
2499 | (34) | 33 |
| 1940 |
34 |
2467 | (35) | 33 |
| 1941 |
44 |
2451 | (48) | 0 |
| 1942 |
55 |
2436 | (51) | 0 |
| 1943 |
66 |
2421 | (46) | 15 |
| 1944 |
59 |
2428 | (48) | 0 |
| 1945 |
56 |
2435 | (40) | 15 |
| 1946 |
39 |
2457 | (33) | 37 |
| 1947 |
50 |
2445 | (36) | 23 |
| 1948 |
49 |
2443 | (43) | 18 |
Rating table notes
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| Biographical data |
| Name: Levenfish, Grigory Yakovlevich |
| Born: 9 Mar. 1889 |
| Died: 9 Feb. 1961 |
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| Notes: |
| Gaige in Chess Personalia has 'G.A. Levenfish', 'G.Y. Levenfish' and 'G.Ya. Levenfish'. I am guessing that all are the same person. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1901-1920, page 310 |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1921-1930, page 329 |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1931-1935, page 392 |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1936-1940, page 362 |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1941-1946, page 349 |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1947-1950, page 467 |
| Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 247 |
| Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 65 |
| Soltis, Mikhail Botvinnik, page 22, 99 |
| Soltis, Soviet Chess, page 5, 11, 48, 141, 444 |
| Thulin, Name index to CTC, page 152 |
| Woodger, Reuben Fine, page 352 |
| Web |
| Gorodin, Dmitry. [On the background of international chess tournaments in Switzerland] |
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Match data (f=formal; c=casual; s=soft)
Tournament data
| Saint Petersburg 1909 (4) |
Saint Petersburg Tournament |
12 | / | 13 |
| | | |
| Saint Petersburg 1910 |
Saint Petersburg Tournament |
6 | / | 9 |
| | | |
| Saint Petersburg 1911 (1) |
Saint Petersburg - Moscow Match |
| | | | | | |
|
Levenfish, G.Y. - Selezniev, A.S. |
0.5 - 0.5 |
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| Carlsbad 1911 |
Carlsbad Tournament |
11.5 | / | 25 |
| | | |
| Saint Petersburg 1911 (2) |
Saint Petersburg City Championship |
5 | / | 7 |
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| Moscow 1912 |
Moscow - Saint Petersburg Team Match |
| | | | | | |
|
Levenfish, G.Y. - Blumenfeld, B.M. |
0.5 - 0.5 |
| | | |
| Saint Petersburg 1912 (2) |
Saint Petersburg 1st Category Tournament |
6.5 | / | 9 |
| | | |
| Vilnius 1912 (1) |
Russian National Tournament - Meisterturnier |
9.5 | / | 19 |
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| Saint Petersburg 1913 (1) |
Saint Petersburg Quadrangular Tournament |
2 | / | 3 |
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| Saint Petersburg 1914 (1) |
All-Russian Championship |
10.5 | / | 17 |
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| Moscow 1920 (2) |
All Russian Chess Olympiad - Championship Tournament |
10 | / | 15 |
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| Petrograd 1920 |
1st Leningrad (Petrograd) Championship |
7 | / | 11 |
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| Petrograd 1922 (1) |
2nd Leningrad (Petrograd) Championship |
9 | / | 11 |
| | | |
| Petrograd 1922 (2) |
Petrograd - Moscow Match |
| | | | | | |
|
Levenfish, G.Y. - Dus-Chotimirsky, F.I. |
0 - 2 |
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| Petrograd 1923 (1) |
2nd Soviet Union Congress - Championship Tournament |
9 | / | 12 |
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| Moscow 1924 (1) |
3rd Soviet Congress - Championship |
11.5 | / | 17 |
| | | |
| Leningrad 1924 (2) |
3rd Leningrad Championship |
8.5 | / | 10 |
| | | |
| Leningrad 1925 (2) |
4th Soviet Union Championship |
13 | / | 19 |
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| Moscow 1925 (3) |
Moscow Tournament |
9 | / | 20 |
| | | |
| Leningrad 1925 (4) |
4th Leningrad Championship |
8.5 | / | 11 |
| | | |
| Moscow 1926 (1) |
4th Moscow - Leningrad Team Match |
| | | | | | |
|
Levenfish, G.Y. - Zubarev, N.M. |
1.5 - 0.5 |
| | | |
| Leningrad 1928 (2) |
6th Leningrad City Championship |
11.5 | / | 15 |
| | | |
| Leningrad 1929 (4) |
7th Leningrad City Championship - Preliminary Section B |
2.5 | / | 5 |
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| Leningrad 1930 (1) |
Leningrad Master Tournament |
3.5 | / | 8 |
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| Leningrad 1933 (3) |
8th U.S.S.R. Championship |
12 | / | 19 |
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| Leningrad 1934 (2) |
Leningrad Tournament |
7.5 | / | 13 |
| | | |
| Leningrad 1934 (3) |
Leningrad International Tournament |
4 | / | 11 |
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| Leningrad 1935 (1) |
9th U.S.S.R. Championship |
12 | / | 19 |
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| Moscow 1935 (1) |
Moscow International Tournament |
10.5 | / | 19 |
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| Leningrad 1936 (2) |
11th Leningrad Championship |
8.5 | / | 14 |
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| Moscow 1936 (2) |
Moscow International Tournament |
7.5 | / | 18 |
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| Leningrad 1937 (1) |
Leningrad Tournament |
3 | / | 5 |
| | | |
| Tbilisi 1937 (1) |
10th U.S.S.R. Championship |
12.5 | / | 19 |
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| Leningrad 1937 (2) |
Moscow - Leningrad Team Match |
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Levenfish, G.Y. - Alatortsev, V.A. |
1 - 1 |
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| Moscow and Leningrad 1939 |
Moscow-Leningrad Training Tournament |
10 | / | 17 |
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| Leningrad 1939 (1) |
11th U.S.S.R. Championship |
7.5 | / | 16 |
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| Moscow 1940 (2) |
12th U.S.S.R. Championship |
6.5 | / | 19 |
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| Kuybyshev 1943 |
Kuybyshev Tournament |
8 | / | 15 |
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| Leningrad 1945 (1) |
14th USSR Championship - Semi-Final |
7.5 | / | 15 |
| | | |
| Leningrad 1946 (1) |
20th Leningrad Championship |
11 | / | 17 |
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| Leningrad 1946 (4) |
15th U.S.S.R. Championship Semi-Final |
10.5 | / | 18 |
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| Leningrad 1946 (6) |
Leningrad - Prague and Bratislava Match |
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Levenfish, G.Y. - Kottnauer, C. |
1 - 1 |
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| Leningrad 1947 (1) |
15th U.S.S.R. Championship |
9 | / | 19 |
| | | |
| Leningrad 1947 (3) |
21st Leningrad Championship |
1.5 | / | 4 |
| | | |
| Moscow 1948 (3) |
16th U.S.S.R. Championship |
8 | / | 18 |
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| Player information updated: 11 Jun. 2026 |
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