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orchestra. At the relatively late age of eighteen, Grigoriev joined the Moscow chess club and played in the Moscow tournament of 1915. There, one of his opponents was the future world champion
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Grigoriev competed in various internal Soviet tournaments. His tournament victories included: the Third Chess
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organized a tourney for endgame studies with two pawns against one, and
Grigoriev ran away with ten of the twelve awards. Players called him the "world champion in the Pawn end-game."
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Before his departure from Russia in 1921, Alekhine played a match with
Grigoriev of 7 games resulting in 2 wins and 5 draws in favour of Alekhine. Analyzing the match,
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If Black queens the b-pawn instead, the queen on b1 is captured after 9.Qd6+ Kxe4 10.Qg6+. If Black tries to get a queen on h1, it's gone after 9.Qd6+ Kxe4 10.Qc6+.
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against whom he lost but later maintained friendly relations.
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1116:Diagram 4.
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