Former biography

Vasily recognized the rules of the game quite late, and the Great Patriotic War prevented his chess growth: Formhev was drafted into the army and served as a junior lieutenant. In October, he was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Moscow". After the hospital, he served in the air defense troops, awarded a number of awards.

By education - a lawyer. Vasily Formoshev - one of the heroes of the book "Chess Fight." In the end of the x, he returned to chess, literally in a couple of years, becoming a very strong and famous player. Three years later, he perfectly passed the difficult qualifying distance and first reached the final of the USSR championship, where he won, in particular, at Isaac Boleslavsky and Vasily Smyslov - the party with the future world champion Feathev considered one of the best in his career.

A participant in the USSR championships, the best result is to divide the 10th place with Efim Geller. Champion of the DSO "Science" G. Member of the Matches of Leningrad - Budapest. In the year, he began to work as a coach in the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers, whose pupils of which the famous master and mentor devoted 45 years of his life. Zhdanov in the spring of G. every year then the palace arranged the open day of the open door, and the strongest guys who did not engage in its walls could measure their strength in a session with the coaches of this city chess Mecca.

He did not participate in the session, but carefully watched what was happening on the boards - in this way I, unexpectedly for myself, already in the fall of that year became his student. To date, I am grateful to fate for this choice. Being already an elderly and not quite healthy person, Vasily Mikhailovich gave his students a lot of effort, energy and knowledge.

I am quite in solidarity with the opinion that the main merit of the coach is to teach the student to work on his own. It is very difficult to do this: what and in what sequence to study after assimilation of initial knowledge is just a coach. Vasily Mikhailovich fully possessed this art. He was an excellent methodologist. I remember that after studying, on his recommendation, the two -volume P.

technique was worked out according to the best, probably the book of G. Levenfisha and V. But more than all other books for the formation and understanding of the chess of Fizhev, I believe, appreciated the book by D. I have preserved even a peculiar “Map of Mine Fields”, signed by the hand of Vasily Mikhailovich, with the numbers of parties that require a mandatory study ”S.

Vasily Formoshev passed away on April 5 in St. Petersburg.