Mark Evgenievich Taimanov: achievements and personal life of a chess player

The game of chess with its history goes far into thepast. With each generation, her technique picked up new nuances, especially with the emergence and development of computers. Despite all this, the grandmasters of the old generation are still as strong and capable of repelling any attack.

Biography of Mark Taimanov

The future chess player was born in early 1926, inFebruary, in the city of Kharkov. After a while the family moved to Leningrad. It is in this city that Mark T. Taimanov, being a child, will enter a chess school. His first teacher, who influenced the game of Mark, was Mikhail Botvinnik. In a young chess player, professionals noticed the ability to play and predicted a great future for him.

Even at an early age young Taimanov showed histalent and ability to calculate the options for moves and strategies. He entered the chess school at the age of 11, combining it with lessons at the conservatory. The hobby for music soon grew into a professional activity. Mark E. Taimanov traveled extensively around the country and abroad with concerts and recorded several records.

His concert activity, he never ledin parallel with chess tournaments, and alternated them. He said that during the championships, he took a break from music, and during concerts - from chess. "You can say that I rest all my life," the grandmaster jokes.

Victory and defeat

The first success in the intellectual game isconsider the second place in the USSR Championship in 1952, when the young beginning chess player lost the palm to Botvinnik. Further his career in this field grew, and in 1956 he already became the champion of the country. He was invited to the competitions, called for mentors.

The career of the grandmaster is connected not only withvictories and success. So, in 1971, his "lucky" to meet with the great Bobby Fischer, the chess board at the quarter-final, which was held in Canada. The game ended in a fiasco for the Taimanov, and after losing the championship, he fell into disgrace at the government officials who have decided that the result of the match - a betrayal of the Soviet chess player. Many years after that, Mark E. could not tour and perform, for him, all the doors were closed, until 1991.

Personal life

With his first wife Mark Taimanovmet at the conservatory with the light hand of their general teacher - Savshinsky Samaria Ilyich. For a long time they performed in a duet on the piano and after a while the attitudes of young people turned into romantic. From his first marriage a son was born to Mark Evgenievich, who went to the music steps of his father and also entered the conservatory.

Taimanov Mark Evgenevich, whose personal lifenot so long ago began to be discussed in the media, he married for the second time. His chosen one is Nadezhda, and she is younger than her husband for 35 years. Nevertheless, the age difference did not affect the creation of a happy family. In 2004, the Taimanovs had twins: a boy and a girl.

The great chess player tries all his timededicate to the family and the upbringing of children in St. Petersburg. Taimanov Mark Evgenievich, wife Nadezhda and his children often go out together for a walk. The great chess player and his wife got acquainted by chance, when his friend, a doctor by profession, visited him. Hope was his patient. Mark Evgenievich liked the girl immediately, and after a while he realized that this was fate.

Achievements

Mark Evgenievich Taimanov - versatilepersonality, and chess were not his only hobby. In childhood, as already mentioned, he began to study music and continued his studies at the conservatory, which he successfully graduated from. For a long time he successfully performed with tours in different countries and as a solo pianist, and in a duet with his wife. Also at the age of 11 he starred in the film "Beethoven's Concert".

A chess player of Taimanov is a multiple playerwinner of various tournaments and the author of several books, one of which he wrote after his famous defeat - "I was a victim of Fisher." In addition, in his entire life Mark E. was familiar with and communicated with prominent political figures, artists of the cinema and theater, musicians and other celebrities. His impressions and thoughts he laid out in the book "Remembering the very-most."

In addition to chess, literary and concert activities, Mark Taimanov was engaged in journalism. His articles were printed by newspapers and magazines, and he himself was invited to competitions and championships.