Nikoly Rudnev

{{Short description|Ukrainian-Uzbekistani chess player}}

Nikoly (Nikolay) Nikolaevich Rudnev (Rudniev) (1895–1944) was a Ukrainian–Uzbekistani chess master.

Born in Kharkiv, he played in the Mannheim 1914 chess tournament (Hauptturnier B).{{cite web|url=http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=October 19, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704030849/http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |archive-date=July 4, 2007 }} Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01 After World War I and Bolshevik Revolution, he was sent to Uzbekistan. He tied for 1st with Sergey von Freymann in the Championship of Middle Asia in 1927,https://www.webcitation.org/5kn9yeIol?url=http://www.geocities.com/al2055km/nat_tour/1927/ch_mia27.html took 6th in the 6th USSR Chess Championship at Odessa 1929 (quarter final).https://www.webcitation.org/5kn9wvbQX?url=http://www.geocities.com/al2055km/ch_urs/1929/ch_urs29.html

He took 2nd, behind von Freymann, at Tashkent 1932 (the 3rd UZB-ch),https://www.webcitation.org/5kn9uZ6Di?url=http://www.geocities.com/al2055km/ch_repub/1932/ch_uzb32.html tied for 8-9th at Tashkent 1934 (the 4th UZB-ch, Vasily Panov won, off contest),https://www.webcitation.org/5kn9vFWG6?url=http://www.geocities.com/al2055km/ch_repub/1934/ch_uzb34.html Rudnev won the 7th Uzbekistani Chess Championship in 1938.{{cite web |url=http://geocities.com/al2055perv/ch_repub/1938/ch_uzb38.html |title=Archived copy |website=geocities.com |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027143113/http://geocities.com/al2055perv/ch_repub/1938/ch_uzb38.html |archive-date=27 October 2009 |url-status=dead}}