Isakas Vistaneckis


Isakas Vistaneckis was a Lithuanian Jewish chess master.

Biography

In 1930, Isakas Vistaneckis won the Lithuanian Championship. In May 1931, he won the 1st Baltic Championship at Klaipėda. In 1935, he won the Lithuanian Championship. In 1935, he drew a match against Vladas Mikėnas,.
Vistaneckis played for Lithuania in five official Chess Olympiads and in one unofficial Olympiad at Munich 1936:
In 1941, he won the 1st Lithuanian SSR Championship. In June 1941, he played at Rostov-on-Don . In 1942, he tied for 4th-7th at Sverdlovsk, behind Viacheslav Ragozin, Vladimirs Petrovs, and Alexei Sokolsky. In February–March 1944, he played at Omsk. In 1945, he tied for 6th-8th at Baku. In October–November 1945, he tied for 3rd-4th with Alexander Koblencs, behind Mikenas and Alexander Tolush, at Riga. In June–July 1946, he took 2nd, behind Yuri Averbakh, at Vilnius. In 1947, he won a match against Zagoriansky.
In 1947, he took 12th at Sverdlovsk. In 1949, he tied for 9th-10th at Vilnius. In 1950, he tied for 14th-15th at Tula. In 1951, he tied for 9th-10th at Lvov. In 1953, he took 13th at Vilnius. In 1954, he tied for 3rd-4th at Vilnius. In 1954, he tied for 14th-15th at Erevan. In 1957, he tied for 8th-9th at Minsk. In 1960, he tied for 16th-17th at Vilnius. In 1961, he tied for 13th-15th at Palanga. In 1962, he tied for 11th-12th at Tbilisi. In 1963, he tied for 13th-14th in Estonia. In 1964, he took 10th at Pärnu.
Vistaneckis played many times at Lithuanian SSR championships. In 1949, he tied for 1st with Ratmir Kholmov at Vilnius. In 1954, he won, ahead of Mikenas, at Vilnius. In 1956, he won at Kaunas. In 1959, he tied for 1st with Kholmov at Vilnius. In 1960, he took 2nd at Vilnius. In 1964, he tied for 2nd-3rd with Česnauskas, behind Mikenas, at Vilnius.
At the end of the 1970s, he emigrated to Israel.

Notable chess games

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