Fedor Duz-Khotimirsky


Fedor Ivanovich Duz–Khotimirsky was a Russian and Soviet Ukrainian chess master. He was one of the organizers of the Kyiv Chess Club.

Chess Career

He was born in Mykhailo-Kotsiubynske, a village in today's Chernihiv oblast of Ukraine.
He was a four-time winner of the Kiev championship. He participated in five Russian championships. In 1901 he took 15th in Moscow. In 1903, he took 15th in Kiev. In 1906, he tied for 8–10th in Sankt Petersburg. In 1907/08, he tied for 8–9th in Łódź. In 1909, he took 4th in Vilna .
In tournaments, he took 7th at St Petersburg 1901. In 1907, he tied for 11–12th in Carlsbad . In 1907 he won, ahead of Benjamin Blumenfeld and Georg Marco, in Moscow. In 1907, he took 3rd in Moscow. In 1908, he took 4th in Moscow, as. In 1908, he took 11th in Prague. In 1908, he drew a match with Frank Marshall in Warsaw. In 1909, he finished 13th in St Petersburg, but defeated co-tournament winners Emanuel Lasker and Rubinstein in their individual games. In 1910, he took 4th in St Petersburg. In 1910, he tied for 7–8th in Hamburg. In 1911, he took 22nd in Carlsbad. In 1911, he tied for 1st–2nd with Eugene Znosko-Borovsky in St Petersburg. In 1913, he lost both games of an exhibition mini-match to José Raúl Capablanca in St Petersburg.
In 1921, he tied for 7–8th in Moscow. In 1923, he tied for 3rd–5th in Petrograd. In 1924, he tied for 10–11th in Moscow. In 1925, he took 5th in Leningrad. In 1925, he took 20th in Moscow. In 1925, he tied for 5–7th in Moscow. In 1927, he tied for 3rd–4th in Moscow. In 1927, he took 2nd, behind Sorokin, in Tiflis. In 1930, he tied for 3rd–5th in Moscow.
In 1931, he won the 2nd Uzbekistani Chess Championship. In 1933, he took 19th in Leningrad. In 1938, he tied for 13–17th in Kiev. In June 1941, he played in the semifinals of the Soviet championship in Rostov-on-Don, which were interrupted by the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union. In November 1942, he took 15th in Moscow-ch. In 1944, he tied for 15–16th in Moscow. In 1945, he took 14th in Baku. In 1946, he tied for 16–17th in Tbilisi. In 1947, he tied for 2nd–4th in Yerevan. In 1949, he tied for 14–15th in Vilnius.
He was awarded the International Master title in 1950 based on his past achievements.