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|birthname = Vladimir Mikhailovich Petrov
|country = [[Latvia]]<br>[[Soviet Union]]
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|birth_place = [[Riga]], [[Governorate of Livonia]], [[Russian Empire]]
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1943|8|26|1907|9|27|df=y}}
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'''Vladimirs Petrovs''' ({{lang-ru|Влади́мир Миха́йлович Петро́в|translit=Vladimir Mikhailovich Petrov}}; 27 September
==Biography==
He was born in [[Riga]], in the [[Governorate of Livonia]] of the [[Russian Empire]] (present-day [[Latvia]]). Though he learned the game of [[chess]] relatively late, at age thirteen, Petrovs made rapid progress. By 1926, at age 19, he won the championship of Riga and finished third in the national championship. He placed 2nd–5th, behind [[Isakas Vistaneckis]], in the first [[Baltic Chess Championship|Baltic Championship]] at [[Klaipėda]] in 1931. Petrovs won a match with [[Movsas Feigins]] (+4 –1 =3) in 1931, won a match against [[Vladas Mikėnas]] (+2 –0 =1) in 1932, and narrowly lost a match to [[Rudolf Spielmann]] (+1 –2 =5) in 1934.
Petrovs tied for first with [[Fricis Apšenieks]] in 1934, and won the [[Latvian Chess Championship|Latvian Championship]] in 1935 and 1937. He won at Helsinki in 1936, and tied for first with [[Samuel Reshevsky]] and [[Salo Flohr]] at Kemeri in 1937, ahead of [[Alexander Alekhine]], [[Paul Keres]], [[Endre Steiner]], [[Savielly Tartakower]], [[Reuben Fine]], [[Gideon Ståhlberg]] and others. This was Petrovs’ finest tournament achievement. Later the same year, he finished last at Semmering. Petrovs placed 3rd-5th at Łódź in 1938, behind [[Vasja Pirc]] and Tartakower, and third at Margate in 1938, behind Alekhine and [[Rudolf Spielmann]], defeating Alekhine in their individual game. In 1939, Petrovs placed 8th of 16 at Kemeri–Riga, and won at Rosario, ahead of [[Erich Eliskases]] and
Petrovs played for Latvia in all seven official [[Chess Olympiad]]s from 1928 to 1939. He also played at the unofficial Olympiad at Munich 1936.
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He won two individual medals: gold in 1931 and bronze in 1939. He achieved a particularly brilliant result playing on top board at Buenos Aires: he was undefeated, drawing with world champion Alekhine, former world champion [[José Raúl Capablanca]], and the young superstar Keres, and won against [[Vladas Mikėnas]], [[Roberto Grau]], Tartakower, and [[Moshe Czerniak]].
In 1940 the Soviet Union [[Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940|annexed Latvia]]. Petrovs finished 10th out of 20 in the 1940 [[USSR Chess Championship|USSR Championship]], taking equal third at Riga in 1941, and second in several strong tournaments: Moscow in 1941, behind [[Isaak Mazel]]; Moscow in 1942, behind [[Igor Bondarevsky]],<ref>[https://
When [[Nazi Germany]] invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, Petrovs was unable to return to his wife and daughter at home in Latvia. He remained in Russia and was arrested on 31 August 1942 under [[Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code)|Article 58]] for criticising decreased living standards in Latvia after the Soviet annexation of 1940. Petrovs was sentenced to ten years in a corrective labor camp. In 1947 his death was announced, but only in 1989 it became known that he had died at [[Kotlas#Gulag|Kotlas]] in 1943 from pneumonia.
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==Further reading==
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*Kryakvin, Dmitry and Galina Petrova-Matisa (2022). ''Hero of the Pre-War Olympiads: Grandmaster Vladimirs Petrovs''. Elk and Ruby. ISBN 978-5-6047849-0-7.
==Notable games==
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*[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1013336 Vladimirs Petrovs vs Alexander Alekhine, Margate 1938, Catalan, Open, E02, 1-0]
*[http://www.olimpbase.org/1939/1939in.html Vladimirs Petrovs vs Roberto Grau, Buenos Aires 1939, 8th Olympiad, Queen's Gambit Declined, D06, 1-0] Described as "An instructive and convincing game in its very simplicity"
*[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1096603 Vladimirs Petrovs vs Vladas
*[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1090733 Vladimirs Petrovs vs Grigory Levenfish, Moscow 1940, 12th USSR ch, Old Indian, A53, 1-0]
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