Russian chess player, chess composer, and chess writer. He was born into a noble family and is usually remembered as the first great Russian chess master. From 1804, he lived in Saint Petersburg. In 1809, he defeated Kopev and Baranov, Petersburg's leading chess players, and became Russian best player at the age of 15. For over half a century Petrov was considered Russia's strongest player. He is an author of the first chess handbook in Russian, St Petersburg 1824. He analysed with Carl Friedrich von Jänisch the opening that later became known as the Petrov's Defense or Russian Game (C42). From 1840 he lived in Warsaw (then Russian Empire), where successfully played against top Warsaw chess masters: Alexander Hoffman, Piotrowski, Szymañski, Siewieluñski, Hieronim Czarnowski, Szymon Winawer, etc. He won matches against D.A. Baranov (4:2) in 1809, Carl Jaenisch (2:1) at St Petersburg 1844; Prince Sergey Semenovich Urusov (3:1) at St Petersburg 1853 and (13,5:7,5) at Warsaw 1859; and Ilya Shumov (4:2) at St Petersburg 1862.
Russian chess player, chess composer, and chess writer. He was born into a noble family and is usually remembered as the first great Russian chess master. From 1804, he lived in Saint Petersburg. In 1809, he defeated Kopev and Baranov, Petersburg's leading chess players, and became Russian best player at the age of 15. For over half a century Petrov was considered Russia's strongest player. He is an author of the first chess handbook in Russian, St Petersburg 1824. He analysed with Carl Friedrich von Jänisch the opening that later became known as the Petrov's Defense or Russian Game (C42). From 1840 he lived in Warsaw (then Russian Empire), where successfully played against top Warsaw chess masters: Alexander Hoffman, Piotrowski, Szymañski, Siewieluñski, Hieronim Czarnowski, Szymon Winawer, etc. He won matches against D.A. Baranov (4:2) in 1809, Carl Jaenisch (2:1) at St Petersburg 1844; Prince Sergey Semenovich Urusov (3:1) at St Petersburg 1853 and (13,5:7,5) at Warsaw 1859; and Ilya Shumov (4:2) at St Petersburg 1862.
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