Arvid Kubbel
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Soviet Union
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Arvid Kubbel | |
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| Арвид Куббель | |
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| Full name | Arvid Ivanovich Kubbel |
| Country | Russian Empire Soviet Union |
| Born | 12 September 1889 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Died | 11 January 1938 (aged 48) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Arvid Ivanovich Kubbel (Russian: Арвид Иванович Куббель; 12 September 1889 – 11 January 1938) was a Russian and Soviet chess player and composer of chess problems and endgame studies.[1] He was a brother of Evgeny and Leonid Kubbel (one of the best-known chess composers); their father was born in Latvia, of Baltic German descent. He played in relatively few tournaments, but was among the stronger players of the early Soviet Union.
In Moscow in 1920, he tied for fifth through seventh place at the first Soviet Chess Championship, won by Alexander Alekhine. At the second Soviet Championship in Petrograd 1923, he took sixth place behind Peter Romanovsky. He took fifth place at the Leningrad City Chess Championship in 1924 (won by Grigory Levenfish), tied for 11-13th at the fourth Soviet championship at Leningrad 1925 (won by Efim Bogoljubow),[2] and tied for eighth and ninth place at the 1928 Leningrad City championship (won by Ilya Rabinovich).[3]