sentences:  He had to qualify for the next Soviet final, and in the semi-final at Kiev 1940, he scored 9.5/16 to tie for 4th-7th places, but did not advance to the final, losing out on tiebreak.Chessmetrics ranks him as #21 in the world for August 1940, with a rating of 2626.With the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, organized chess was put to a stop for the next several years; but Alatortsev's solid pre-war results earned him an invitation to a strong event at Kuibyshev 1942.