Gennadi (Gennady, Genna) Borisovich Sosonko (Russian: Геннадий Борисович Сосонко; born 18 May 1943, Troitsk, Russia) is a Dutch chess Grandmaster (GM). Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Events 1152 - Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Troitsk (Тро́ицк is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on a Tributary of the upper Tobol River approximately Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Chess is a recreational and competitive Game played between two players. The title Grandmaster is awarded to extremely strong Chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE.

At the beginning of his career, in 1958, he won in the Leningrad juniors championship. Saint Petersburg ( tr: Sankt-Peterburg,) is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River

Sosonko moved from the Soviet Union to the Netherlands via Israel in 1972. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. He won the Dutch Championship in 1973 and 1978 (jointly). The Dutch Chess Championship was officially established in 1909 although unofficial champions stretch back to the 1870s His tournament record includes 1st at Wijk aan Zee 1977, 1st at Nijmegen 1978, 3rd at Amsterdam 1980, 1st at Wijk aan Zee 1981, 3rd at Tilburg 1982 and 4th at Haninge 1988. The Corus chess tournament takes place every year usually in January in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijk in the province of North Nijmegen (ˈnɛɪmeɣən) (obsolete spellings Nijmwegen Nymegen Nieumeghen &mdash Nimwegen in local dialect and in German, Nimègue in French Amsterdam (pronounced) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west Tilburg ( is a Municipality and a City in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of Noord-Brabant. Haninge Municipality ( Haninge kommun) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. He also drew a match with Jan Timman (+1 =0 −1) in 1984. Jan Timman (born December 14, 1951) is a Dutch Chess Grandmaster who was one of the world's leading players from the late 1970s to

Sosonko played eleven times for Dutch team at the Chess Olympiads in 1974-84, and 1988-96. The Chess Olympiad is a Biennial Chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other He won two individual medals: gold in Haifa (1976), bronze in Nice (1974), and two medals for team: silver in Haifa (1976), and bronze in Thessaloniki (1988). Haifa (חֵיפָה; حَيْفَا) is the largest City in Northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country with Nice (nis Niçard Occitan: Niça norm or Nissa, Italian: Nizza or Nizza Marittima, Greek Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη), Thessalonica, or Salonica is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of Macedonia

Sosonko was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1974 and the GM title in 1976. The title International Master is awarded to outstanding Chess players by the world chess organization FIDE.

External links

• FIDE rating card for Gennadi Sosonko
• Gennadi Sosonko at ChessGames.com
• Chessbase bio

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