32 Facts About Fedir Bohatyrchuk

In 1911, Fedir Bohatyrchuk won the Kiev City Championship; he was followed by Stefan Izbinsky, Efim Bogoljubow, et al.

In February 1914, Fedir Bohatyrchuk lost an exhibition game against Jose Raul Capablanca at Kiev.

Fedir Bohatyrchuk was part of a group, along with ten other Russian players from the interrupted Mannheim tournament, which was interned by Germany after the declaration of war against Russia, which began World War I In September 1914, Bohatyrchuk and three others were freed and allowed to return home.

Fedir Bohatyrchuk played in six USSR Chess Championships: 1923,1924,1927,1931,1933, and 1934.

In December 1925, Fedir Bohatyrchuk finished 11th of 21 players at Moscow.

Fedir Bohatyrchuk achieved a 2628 performance, according to the Chessmetrics website, which calculates historical ratings.

In October 1927, Fedir Bohatyrchuk tied for first and second places with Peter Romanovsky at Moscow, 5th USSR Championship, with.

The event, which had eight of the world's top 18 players, according to Chessmetrics, was won by Botvinnik and Salo Flohr, but Fedir Bohatyrchuk beat Mikhail Botvinnik in their individual game.

Fedir Bohatyrchuk had married Olga Zykina by 1915; the couple had one daughter, Dr Tamara Jeletzky.

Fedir Bohatyrchuk eventually graduated as a professional radiologist, which at that time was an emerging specialty; he completed his habilitation in 1940.

Fedir Bohatyrchuk signed the Prague Manifesto, and became viewed by the Soviet authorities as a Nazi collaborator.

Fedir Bohatyrchuk was the leader of the Ukrainian National Council.

In May 1944, in Prague, Fedir Bohatyrchuk played an eight-game clock simultaneous training series against local masters, including Cenek Kottnauer, Ludek Pachman, Jiri Podgorny, and Karel Prucha, scoring an overall.

In March 1946, Fedir Bohatyrchuk won a 14-player round-robin for displaced persons, staged in the Allied camp at Meerbeck, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Later in 1946, Fedir Bohatyrchuk won, followed by Elmars Zemgalis, Wolfgang Unzicker, etc.

In May 1947, Fedir Bohatyrchuk placed sixth at Kassel, a ten-player international round-robin, won by Bogoljubow.

Fedir Bohatyrchuk emigrated to Canada in 1948, where he settled in the capital city of Ottawa.

Fedir Bohatyrchuk became a professor of medicine at the University of Ottawa, and the author of many scientific studies.

Fedir Bohatyrchuk received the Barclay Medal in 1955 from the British Radiological Society.

Fedir Bohatyrchuk, writing in 1949 from Canada a letter to the British magazine Chess, was one of the first to describe the Soviet state's methods of high salaries and luxury benefits for promising and talented sportspeople, including chess players, along with intensive training, as part of an overall program to demonstrate the superiority of the communist system.

Fedir Bohatyrchuk's letter generated significant interest and controversy throughout the chess world at the time, including many replies from worldwide chess figures such as Robert G Wade and Ludek Pachman.

Fedir Bohatyrchuk certainly won no friends in Soviet chess leadership with this activism, which shone undesired attention on their practices, while providing expert direct contradiction.

Fedir Bohatyrchuk was the author of many newspaper and periodical articles on the history of ODNR.

Fedir Bohatyrchuk wrote his autobiography: "My Life Path to Vlasov and Manifesto of Prague".

In 1955, Fedir Bohatyrchuk tied for third through fifth at Ottawa.

Fedir Bohatyrchuk took up Correspondence chess in his late sixties, becoming Canadian Correspondence Chess Champion and playing first board for Canada at the Correspondence Chess Olympiad.

Fedir Bohatyrchuk stayed active in local Ottawa chess into his early eighties, and played correspondence chess until age 85.

Except for the ill-fated Mannheim 1914 event, Fedir Bohatyrchuk did not have the opportunity to compete in an international tournament outside Russia or the Soviet Union until near the end of World War II, and even those events came while he was a fugitive from the Soviets.

Fedir Bohatyrchuk was inducted into the Canadian Chess Hall of Fame in 2011.

Volume two, in Russian, covers the games of Fedir Bohatyrchuk, collected from all available contemporary sources.

Biography author Sergey Voronkov and Lawrence Day, Canadian chess master and pupil of Fedir Bohatyrchuk, have argued that Fedir Bohatyrchuk served as a role model for the fictional Dr Zhivago, as depicted in the novel of that title by Boris Pasternak, and in the 1965 Academy Award-winning film Dr Zhivago, based on the novel.

Fedir Bohatyrchuk died in 1984 at age 91, and is buried in Pinecrest Cemetery in Ottawa, together with his wife Olga, who died in 1990.