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| '''Veniamin Innokentevich Sozin''' (1896–1956) was a Russian ], author, and theoretician. | |||
| ==Legacy== | |||
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| {{Chess diagram small|= | |||
| | tright | |||
| | Sozin Attack | |||
| |= | |||
| |rd|nd|bd|qd|kd|bd| |rd|= | |||
| | |pd| | |pd|pd|pd|pd|= | |||
| |pd| | |pd| |nd| | |= | |||
| | | | | | | | | |= | |||
| | | |bl|nl|pl| | | |= | |||
| | | |nl| | | | | |= | |||
| |pl|pl|pl| | |pl|pl|pl|= | |||
| |rl| |bl|ql|kl| | |rl|= | |||
| | 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bc4 | |||
| }} | |||
| | | |||
| {{Chess diagram small|= | |||
| | tright | |||
| | Sozin Variation 11...Nxe5 | |||
| |= | |||
| 8 |rd| |bd|qd|kd|bd| |rd|= | |||
| 7 | | | | | |pd|pd|pd|= | |||
| 6 |pd| | | |pd|nd| | |= | |||
| 5 | |nl| | |nd| | | |= | |||
| 4 | | | |pd| | | | |= | |||
| 3 | | | |bl| |nl| | |= | |||
| 2 |pl|pl| | | |pl|pl|pl|= | |||
| 1 |rl| |bl|ql|kl| | |rl|= | |||
| a b c d e f g h | |||
| | 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 c6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 a6 9.e4 c5 10.e5 cxd4 11.Nxb5 Nxe5 (diagram) 12.Nxe5 axb5 and now White has 13.Qf3 (Stahlberg), 13.0-0 (Rellstab), 13.Bxb5+, or 13.Qb3. | |||
| }} | |||
| |} | |||
| {{algebraic notation|pos=secleft}} | |||
| ===Sozin Attack=== | |||
| He advocated the Sozin Attack (White's 6.Bc4 ) against the ] around 1930, which became popular from the 1950s, and was frequently employed by ], who refined and advanced its theory whereby it became known as the ]. | |||
| ===Sozin Variation=== | |||
| In 1925, Sozin introduced the Sozin Variation (Black's 11...Nxe5) against the ] (] D49) in the ], which since has become standard play. | |||
| ==References== | |||
| {{refbegin}} | |||
| *{{cite book | |||
| | last=Hooper | |||
| | first=David | |||
| | authorlink=David Vincent Hooper | |||
| | last2=Whyld | |||
| | first2=Kenneth | |||
| | author2-link=Kenneth Whyld | |||
| | title=The Oxford Companion to Chess | |||
| | page=316 | |||
| | publisher=] | |||
| | year=1987 | |||
| | isbn=0-19-281986-0}} | |||
| {{refend}} | |||
| {{Persondata | {{Persondata | ||
| | NAME = Sozin, Veniamin | | NAME = Sozin, Veniamin | ||