Georgy Geshev Explained

Georgy (Georgi) Geshev (Geschew) (Bulgarian: Георги Христов Гешев) (born October 8, 1903, in Sofia – died July 15, 1937)^[1] was a Bulgarian chess master.

At the beginning of his career, he tied for 6-7th at Varna 1926 (K. Atanasov, G. Slavchev, and A. Telegin won), shared 1st with Pinkas at Sofia 1927, won at Trnovo 1928, and took 2nd, behind A. Gyurov, at Sofia 1929.^[2]

He won the Bulgarian Chess Championship four times (1933 – jointly,^[3] 1934,^[4] 1935,^[5] and 1936.^[6] At the play-off match for the 1933 title, he triumphed against Yury Toshev (4½ : 3½),^[7] to become the first official Bulgarian Champion.^[8]

Geshev represented Bulgaria on first board at the 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad held in Munich 1936.^[9]

Notes and References

1. Book: Gaige, Jeremy . Jeremy Gaige . 1987 . Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography . McFarland . 0-7864-2353-6 . 138.
2. Web site: Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables . 2011-10-31 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070704030849/http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf . 2007-07-04 .
3. Web site: 1933 Varna Bulg Ch . Thechesslibrary.com . 2008-07-29 . 2011-10-31.
4. Web site: 1934 Sofia Bulg Ch . Thechesslibrary.com . 2008-07-29 . 2011-10-31.
5. Web site: 1935 Russe Bulg Ch . Thechesslibrary.com . 2008-07-29 . 2011-10-31.
6. Web site: 1936 Sofia Bulg Ch . Thechesslibrary.com . 2008-07-29 . 2011-10-31.
7. http://www.etcc.chessbg.com/bulletins/etcc_bulletin_00.pdf
8. Web site: Firsts in chess - by Bill Wall. 2009-10-28 . 2011-10-31 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091028083154/http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/firsts.htm . October 28, 2009 .
9. Web site: Unofficial Chess Olympiad, Munich 1936, individual results. www.olimpbase.org.