Exhibition of Boris Dolmatovsky Automatic translate

In the archive of Boris Georgievich Dolmatovsky - tens of thousands of frames. He began to shoot chess and chess players about 50 years ago.

The high quality of work allowed him to quickly enter the “chess family” - he has many friends among chess players, referees, journalists, editors. Thanks to almost all world champions are kept in his archive. It is difficult to find a good chess book that would not be illustrated with photographs by Dolmatovsky.

The first picture of Dolmatovsky appeared in 1972 in the magazine "Soviet Photo".

It was published in all central newspapers and many magazines. Particularly fruitful was the collaboration with Moskovskaya Pravda, Moskovsky Komsomolets, and Evening Moscow. In the early 80s, the Soviet public was literally captivated by Dolmatovsky’s works on the interzonal tournament in Moscow (1982), the final match of the Smyslov applicants - Kasparov (Vilnius 1984) and the unlimited world championship match between Karpov and Kasparov (Moscow 1984-85).

Boris Georgievich is the author of the first published photograph of Garry Kasparov, when he, a still unknown ten-year-old boy won the game in the final tournament of the Palaces of Pioneers against Grandmaster Yuri Averbakh.

It is amazing that Dolmatovsky did all this amount of work, remaining an amateur: he worked all his life at the factory, and took pictures “on holidays and weekends”. Perhaps this is also the secret of his inescapable enthusiasm: to this day, Dolmatovsky is ready to go with the camera to where they play chess. He gladly goes to major tournaments and small, local festivals. Endowed with keen photographic vision, he continues to search for the unusual in the familiar — and he regularly finds it. For the sake of a good shot, Boris Georgievich is ready to spend several hours on his feet and walk a dozen kilometers.

About Boris Dolmatovsky

Boris Georgievich Dolmatovsky was born on July 6, 1942 in the city of Sol-Iletsk, Chkalov region (the Orenburg region was called from 1938 to 1957), where his mother and his brother went to evacuate from Moscow during the war.

In childhood, he became interested in chess. He studied at the Moskvoretsky House of Pioneers, where Vasily Smyslov began his chess career at one time. Dolmatovsky participated in the youth championship of Moscow, where he completed the first category - by Soviet standards

this one was highly qualified. In 1957 he became the champion among adults in the city of Zvenigorod near Moscow, where the family lived every summer.

Boris later served in the army, studied at the Institute of Electronic Engineering, and worked at various enterprises. Dolmatovsky worked for almost 50 years at the MTZ TRANSMASH OJSC plant.

At the same time he was fond of photography, the interest in which his father instilled. Boris Dolmatovsky was a member of the country’s best amateur photographer club, Novator, and also graduated from the photo lecture hall at the Moscow Union of Journalists and the Institute of Journalism Excellence.

KBoris Georgievich, for example, covered matches for the World Championship Kasparov - Karpov (Sevilla 1987), Kasparov - Short (London 1993), Kasparov - Anand (New York 1995). And also the 1984 World Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki, Greece, international tournaments in Germany, Holland, Spain, France.

He participated in many international photo exhibitions: World Press Photo (Holland), Germany (1987), Health for all! (Switzerland 1988), Spain (Reus, photosport), Latvia (1988), Bulgaria (Gabrovo, humor) and in many all-Union and Russian photo contests. Boris Dolmatovsky has numerous medals, prizes, diplomas and a gold medal of VDNH for amateur art.

His work was devoted to photo exhibitions in the capital of Kalmykia, Elista, in Moscow, including within the walls of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, in Spain and many others. For participation in the exhibition “Photographs of Russian and Soviet Laureates“ WORLD PRESS PHOTO 1955-2010 ”Dolmatovsky was awarded an Honorary Diploma“ For outstanding contribution to the development of domestic photojournalism ”. Boris Dolmatovsky photographed all world champions, starting with Botvinnik (though Fischer didn’t fall into his lens), other outstanding grandmasters of different generations.

About the Chess Museum

The Chess Museum was founded in 1980. In 1980-2009 the exposition was located in a small room (30 sq. m) of the Central House of the Chess Player. Since autumn 2014, the museum’s exposition has been located on a new square (180 sq. M) in three rooms of the same mansion.

In the museum you can see everything related to the old, but always young game - cups and other trophies won by the grandmasters of Russia; chess paintings, drawings, caricatures, engravings and lithographs, sculptural portraits of the great people who gave leisure to chess, photographs of champions and numerous chess sets made in the 18th-20th centuries by masters of different countries.

The museum’s collection can be divided into two parts: chess of different eras and peoples and cups ever won by our athletes. Chess made of silver, mahogany, sandalwood, mother of pearl, glass, birch bark and even wire (made, by the way, in the Gulag), ancient paintings, prints and photographs - all this, combined with the guide’s story, gives the impression that our life revolves around chess