Draft:German Khodos

German Lazarevich Khodos (April 10, 1941, Astrakhan — October 31, 2023, Dusseldorf, Rhineland-Ruhr region, Germany) was a Soviet chess player of USSR (1960). As a member of the USSR national team, he is a four-time winner of the World Student Team Championships (1963, 1964 and 1965).

Participant of the USSR championship in 1962. Repeated participant of the RSFSR championships, as part of the RSFSR national team, participant of the USSR team championships in 1958 and 1960. (two bronze medals in the team), the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR in 1959 and international matches with the Hungarian national team (1963 and 1968). As part of the national team of the DSO "Burevestnik", the winner of the USSR team championship in 1961. He showed the best result on the 7th board.

Biography
He was born on April 10, 1941 in Astrakhan. , in the family of Lazar Abramovich Khodos and Bronislava Moiseevna Kann. . After graduating from high school, he entered the Rostov Pedagogical Institute, began to get interested in chess at an early age, when he first started playing with his older brother, Mikhail Khodos. In 1953, his older brother brought German to the Rostov Palace of Pioneers, where he met coach Semyon Shevakhovich.

In 1956, he participated in a game with Wolfgang Unziker, who at that time was the champion of West Germany. The duel lasted for several hours and in the middle of the game Herman's black pawns won. At the end of the match, Wolfgang declared defeat to Herman. In the same year, Herman became a member of the All—Union Arena, as part of the RSFSR youth team, which had previously participated in the USSR team Championship, the RSFSR team won with a score of 74 points out of 108 possible.

In 1957, he participated in similar competitions and grew from the 6th position to the 1st and headed the youth national team of the RSFSR, where Herman's team won with a score of 7:5 and again became the Champion of the USSR. In 1958, Herman wins and receives the first Bronze Medal, becoming a medalist in the national team of the RSFSR, the USSR team championship.

In 1959, in Riga, at the 11th youth team championship, he again led the RSFSR national team, showing the best result on the 1st board. In the same year, a duel in the adult championship of the RSFSR took place in Voronezh, and in 1960 he became a participant in the tournament in Cheboksary, according to the Cheveningen system, holding the score — 7.5 out of 13, with a norm of 7 points.

In 1961, Herman participated in the VIII World Student Team Championship, which was held in Helsinki, and in the same year he and the team took part in competitions in Baku, Cherkassy, Rostov-on-Don and Moscow. For all the time in participating in tournaments, Herman played more than 47 games, of which 29 won, 14 ended in a draw and he was defeated in 4 games. .

In 1962, he got to the Novosibirsk semi-finals of the XXX national Championship, in which he won, winning 12 games out of 15 possible, drew twice and with one loss, holding 1.5 points.

He died on October 31, 2023 at the age of 82 in Dusseldorf, Germany

Personal life
His wife is Nelly Pavlovna Kulikova (Khodos). Children: Alina (born 1983), Julia (born 29 1980), Alexander (born 1988).

Memory
On January 2, 2024, the Rostov City Chess Club at 92 Gazetny Street hosted a traditional Christmas tournament dedicated to the memory of German Khodos, who died in October 2023. The competition was held according to the Swiss system, in the form of 8 rounds with calculation of Russian and international ratings.