Nikolai Zubarev

Nikolai Zubarev was a Russian chess player. He won the championship of Moscow twice.

Chess career

During World War I, Zubarev won ahead of Peter Yurdansky at Moscow 1915 and tied for 4–5th places the next year. After the war, he won the championship of Moscow in 1927 and 1930. He also took 5th place in 1919/20, took 3rd in 1920, shared 6th in 1922/23, tied for 12–13th in 1925, took 2nd behind Abram Rabinovich in 1926, tied for 5–6th in 1928, shared 6th in 1929, all in the Moscow Championship, and finished last in the 1925 Moscow international tournament, won by Efim Bogoljubov.
He participated several times in USSR Chess Championship; tied for 11–12th at Moscow 1920, took 10th at Petrograd 1923, tied for 11–13th at Leningrad 1925, took 4th at Odessa 1929, and took 18th at Leningrad 1933.
Zubarev was awarded the International Arbiter title in 1951.