Sergey von Freymann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Sergey von Freymann

Russian-Uzbekistani chess player

Date of Birth: 07-May-1882

Place of Birth: Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1946

Profession: chess player

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Sergey von Freymann

  • Sergey von Freymann (Freyman, Frejman, Freiman) (1882–1946) was a Russian-Uzbekistani chess master. In 1906, von Freymann took 2nd, behind Semyon Alapin, in Sankt Petersburg.
  • In 1907, he tied for 6-7th in St Petersburg (Eugene Znosko-Borovsky won).
  • In 1907/08, he took 5th in Lodz (the 5th All-Russian Masters' Tournament).
  • The event was won by Akiba Rubinstein.
  • In 1907/08, he won in St Petersburg.
  • In 1908, he took 2nd, behind Sergey Lebedev, in St Petersburg (Quadrangular).
  • In 1908, he tied for 1st with Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz in St Petersburg.
  • In 1909, he took 18th in St Petersburg (Chigorin Memorial).
  • The event was won by Emanuel Lasker and Rubinstein.
  • In 1909, he tied for 2nd-3rd with Abram Rabinovich, behind Rubinstein, in the 6th RUS-ch in Vilna (Wilno, Vilnius).
  • In 1910, he tied for 1st-3rd with Lebedev and Grigory Levenfish in St Petersburg.
  • In 1911, he tied for 2nd-5th in Cologne (Moishe Lowtzky won).
  • In 1911, he tied for 3rd-4th with Levenfish, behind Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky and Znosko-Borovsky, in St Petersburg.
  • The same year, von Freymann beat Znosko-Borovsky in a match (+5 –3 =10).
  • In 1912, he tied for 6-7th in Abbazia (Opatija).
  • The event was won by Rudolf Spielmann.
  • In 1912, he took 8th in the 7th RUS-ch in Vilna (Rubinstein won).
  • In 1913/14, he tied for 1st-2nd with Peter Romanovsky in St Petersburg.
  • In 1914, he took 12th in St Petersburg (the 8th RUS-ch).
  • The event was won by Alexander Alekhine and Aron Nimzowitsch.
  • After World War I, von Freymann participated in the USSR and the Soviet Republics of Middle Asia championships.
  • In late 1920s, he moved from Russia to Uzbekistan.
  • In 1924, he tied for 16-17th in Moscow (3rd URS-ch).
  • The event was won by Efim Bogoljubow.
  • In 1925, he took 19th in Leningrad (4th URS-ch, Bogoljubow won).
  • In 1925, von Freymann drew a match with Duz-Chotimirski (+5 –5 =0).
  • In 1927, he tied for 10-12th in Moscow (5th URS-ch).
  • The event was won by Fedor Bohatirchuk and Peter Romanovsky.
  • In 1927, he tied for 1st with Nikolay Rudnev in the Championship of Middle Asia.
  • In 1928, he won (off contest) 2nd Turkmenistan championship.
  • In 1929, he finished 2nd in the 6th URS-ch in Odessa (Verlinsky won).
  • In 1930, he took 6th in Tiflis (Vsevolod Rauzer won).
  • In 1931, he took 6th in the 2nd UZB-ch (Duz-Chotimirski).
  • Sergey von Freymann won Uzbekistani Chess Championship four times, in 1932, 1934, 1935 and 1937.
  • Meanwhile, he tied for 16-17th at Leningrad 1933 (8th URS-ch).
  • The event was won by Mikhail Botvinnik.
  • In 1934, he won in Tashkent (Championship of Middle Asia).
  • In 1934/35, he took 20th in Leningrad (9th URS-ch).
  • The event was won by Levenfish and Rabinovich.
  • In 1935, he won the second Kazakhstani Chess Championship, held in Alma-Ata.
  • In 1937, he tied for 1st-2nd with Skripkin [1] in the Kyrgyzstani championship.
  • In 1938, he tied for 13-17th in Kiev (URS-ch, semi-final).
  • After World War II, von Freymann took 4th in the 10th Uzbekistan championship (Abdullaev won) in 1945/46.

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