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Alexey Pavlovich Sokolsky (3 November 1908 Penza Governorate, Russian Empire – 27 December 1969 Minsk, USSR) was a Russian chess player of International Master strength in over-the-board chess, a noted correspondence chess player, and an opening theoretician.
Alexey Pavlovich Sokolsky (5 November 1908 – 27 December 1969) was a Ukrainian-Belarusian chess player of International Master strength in over-the-board chess, [1] a noted correspondence chess player, and an opening theoretician. Chess career. In 1935, he took second in the Russian FSSR.
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The two players most associated with 1.b4 are Polish GM (1887-1956) and Soviet IM Alexey Sokolsky (1908-1969), hence the common names for the opening: the Polish (more common in the West) and the Sokolsky (more so in Russian sources). The third name, the Orangutan, is also thanks to Tartakower.
May 27, 2014 · One of the first who researched deeply into the opening was Alexey Sokolsky (1908 - 1969) - a Soviet chess player and opening theoretician of International Master strength. Sokolsky wrote a book in Russian about this opening ("Debyut 1. b2-b4", 1963) in which he gave a theoretical approach to the main ideas and variations of the 1. b4 opening.
Oct 31, 2020 · Soviet player Alexei Pavlovich Sokolsky (1908–1969) wrote a monograph on this opening in 1963, Debyut 1 b2–b4. Perhaps its most famous use came in the game Tartakower versus Maróczy, in the New York 1924 chess tournament on March 21, 1924.
