Greetings on the occasion of the birth came from various

Greetings on the occasion of the birth came from all over the country and even from across the ocean ¬. Conveyed his congratulations to the eminent Soviet grandmaster Nikolai Krogius. One of the leaders of Russian chess during their highest pitch, the Vice ¬ President of FIDE, now lives on a family emergency in the United States, well remembers Voloshin. - Pass to Ivan my best wishes - said in a telephone conversation with the author of these lines Nikolai Vladimirovich. - We met at the board at the end of 40 ¬ - early 50 ¬ ies: I played for the Saratov region, it is - for the native Primorye. I was much younger, ¬ only just got out of adolescence, and Ivan already had a reputation for a mature player, known all over Russia Today, Ivan, statistics show that most elderly of the surviving players in the world. The first tournament is out - it's just impossible to imagine! - By 1929. Then he goes to the first year of the Far Eastern State University, later graduated from another university - Polytechnic Institute. While still a student began working at the enterprises of shipbuilding and ship repair industry. He started his working career as an engineer at the dawn of the modern Pacific Fleet, already completed at the latest nuclear technology. Only some of the milestones of his great chess the way. In 1947 he led the team in the famous radiomatche Vladivostok - Leningrad, by the way, the longest still technically. Inspired by the game captain, vladivostoktsy brought the match to an honorable draw - 4:4 which caused a sensation. In 1950 participating in the All-Russian competition for the Cup of the memory of the founder of the Russian chess school Chigorin, Voloshin wins the leading masters of the Republic - Champions of the RSFSR and Ilivitskogo Nezhmetdinov. Despite the large production workload, Voloshin found time for coaching: conducted in the urban section of the Pioneer. Under his guidance, learned the secrets of chess art the most talented guys Primorye, including future first in the Far East grandmaster Alexander Zaitsev. Everything was in this day Sedanka on the holiday table, the veteran did not depart - never missed a toast! And, of course, chess - as without them? Plant manager "Radiopribor" Mikhail Kharchenko, in his younger years, one of the leading players of the edge, he remembered the part that they played in the championship with Voloshin edge exactly 40 years ago. Immediately sat down to sort in memory "of battle, where they were cut together." Looking like a lively and interested veteran analyzed the complex combinations, demonstrating a rare memory, just could not believe that a man - 103 years.

Vladimir Konoplitsky, the newspaper "Vladivostok"