17 Facts About Efim Bogoljubow

Efim Bogoljubow, known as Efim Dimitrijewitsch Bogoljubow, was a Russian-born German chess grandmaster.

Efim Bogoljubow did not finish his studies and instead focused on chess.

Efim Bogoljubow took second place in Baden-Baden, and won five times in Triberg.

Efim Bogoljubow spent most of the rest of his life in Germany.

Efim Bogoljubow sent his winnings from Pistyan to Triberg, where his wife used them to buy a house.

In 1924, Efim Bogoljubow briefly returned to Russia, which had since become the Soviet Union, and won consecutive Soviet championships in 1924 and 1925.

Efim Bogoljubow won at Breslau 1925, and in Moscow, ahead of a field which included Emanuel Lasker and Jose Raul Capablanca.

Efim Bogoljubow won ahead of Akiba Rubinstein that year at Berlin.

At Kissingen 1928, Efim Bogoljubow triumphed over a field which included Capablanca, Nimzowitsch and Savielly Tartakower, et al.

Efim Bogoljubow represented Germany at first board in the 4th Chess Olympiad at Prague 1931, winning the individual silver medal.

Efim Bogoljubow won at Bremen 1937, Bad Elster 1938, and Stuttgart 1939.

Efim Bogoljubow's situation was not helped even after he joined the Nazi party in 1938, so that his daughters would be allowed to study at university.

Hans Kmoch claims that he insisted to play with the swastika flag at Zandvoort 1936, but Fedor Bogatyrchuk claimed that he did not like to wear it, and that Efim Bogoljubow was "only formally" a member of the Nazi party.

Hans Frank, who enjoyed meeting top players and playing consultation games against them, invited Efim Bogoljubow to move to Krakow to work as a chess player and translator.

Efim Bogoljubow played in numerous tournaments held in Germany and the General Government throughout the war.

In 1944, Efim Bogoljubow won, ahead of Fedor Bogatyrchuk, in Radom.

Efim Bogoljubow was posthumously rehabilitated in the Soviet Union after the beginning of perestroika.