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1986 In Chess
Events in chess in 1986. Events * Nigel Short won the Hoogovens Wijk aan Zee Chess Tournament 1986, held in January. * ''28 July – 8 October''. World champion Garry Kasparov defended his title 12½ - 11½ against challenger Anatoly Karpov in the 1986 World Championship in London and Leningrad. * Women's world champion Maia Chiburdanidze defended her title for the fourth time in the Women's World Chess Championship 1986, held in Sofia. Births * Gabriel Flom - 27 January * Valeriy Aveskulov - 31 January * Luca Shytaj - 3 February * Andrei Murariu - 17 February * Levan Pantsulaia - 26 February * Alexandre Danin - 14 March * Anuar Ismagambetov - 21 March * Saptarshi Roy - 21 March * Boris Grachev - 27 March * Alexey Kim - 5 April * Tatiana Kosintseva - 11 April * Pavel Anisimov - 19 April * Levon Babujian - 8 May * Pentala Harikrishna - 10 May * Vugar Gashimov - 24 July Deaths * Gedeon Barcza - 21 February * Borislav Milić - 28 May * Georgy Agzamov Georgy Tadzhikhano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. The rules of chess as we know them today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no use of dice or cards. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saptarshi Roy
Saptarshi Roy (born 21 March 1986) is an Indian chess player, holding the title of grandmaster. Education He is a Graduate with a Bachelor of Science from Calcutta University in Kolkta. Biography He is the Son of Sri Amal Kumar Roy and Sri Supta Roy. Won 12 times State champion from 1994 to 2008. He trained many IM's and GM's. He facilitated a strategic training session, "King Hunts by GM Saptarshi Roy" attended by over 4000 students. He was the Grandmaster of India. Chess career International Master Title Spain Montcada 2006 National U-12 Champion 1998 A.P. Join 3rd World youth Championship 1998 Paris ,France. National U-15 Champion 1999 Kerala. Champion In Nepal International open 2010.Got 1st Grand Master Norm in Sant Marti Spain 2012 Got 2nd Grand Master Norm in Bangkok Open 2013.Got his final Grand Master norm and Became the 51st GM of Indian History. References External linksSaptarshi Royrating card at FIDE The International Chess Federation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 In Chess
Events in chess in 1986. Events * Nigel Short won the Hoogovens Wijk aan Zee Chess Tournament 1986, held in January. * ''28 July – 8 October''. World champion Garry Kasparov defended his title 12½ - 11½ against challenger Anatoly Karpov in the 1986 World Championship in London and Leningrad. * Women's world champion Maia Chiburdanidze defended her title for the fourth time in the Women's World Chess Championship 1986, held in Sofia. Births * Gabriel Flom - 27 January * Valeriy Aveskulov - 31 January * Luca Shytaj - 3 February * Andrei Murariu - 17 February * Levan Pantsulaia - 26 February * Alexandre Danin - 14 March * Anuar Ismagambetov - 21 March * Saptarshi Roy - 21 March * Boris Grachev - 27 March * Alexey Kim - 5 April * Tatiana Kosintseva - 11 April * Pavel Anisimov - 19 April * Levon Babujian - 8 May * Pentala Harikrishna - 10 May * Vugar Gashimov - 24 July Deaths * Gedeon Barcza - 21 February * Borislav Milić - 28 May * Georgy Agzamov Georgy Tadzhikhano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgy Agzamov
Georgy Tadzhikhanovich Agzamov (September 6, 1954, Tashkent – August 27, 1986, Sevastopol) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster, the first from Central Asia. He became an International Master in 1982 and was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1984. Career In 1966, at the age of 12, he was the chess champion of his town of Almalyk (Olmaliq) in the province of Tashkent of central Uzbekistan. In 1971, he took 2nd place in the USSR Junior Chess Championship, held in Riga. In 1973, he played in his first Uzbekistani chess championship. He won the event in 1976 and 1981. He was the first Grandmaster from Uzbekistan in 1984. He was a philologist. Best results include first place at Belgrade 1982; 1st at Vršac 1983; 1st at Sochi 1984; 1st at Tashkent 1984; 1st at Bogotá 1984; 2nd at Potsdam 1985; 1st at Calcutta 1986. In 1986, after finishing a chess tournament in Sevastopol in the Crimea, he was accidentally killed when he went hiking and fell off a cliff and became trapped betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borislav Milić
Borislav Milić (Cyrillic: Борислав Милић; 20 October 1925 – 28 May 1986) was a Yugoslav Grandmaster of chess, and a chess writer, organizer, promoter, and administrator. Introduction Born in Belgrade, Borislav Milic was part of the group of strong Yugoslav chessplayers, along with Svetozar Gligorić, Petar Trifunovic, Vasja Pirc, Braslav Rabar, Andrija Fuderer, Nikola Karaklajic, and Borislav Ivkov, which attained prominence immediately after the end of World War II. Milic was active in tournament play from 1945 to 1967. He then developed a career as a chess administrator, and as a co-founder of the very successful Chess Informant publications, serving there as a senior editor and writer. Yugoslav Championship results Milic played in 14 Yugoslav Chess Championship finals from 1945 to 1962, usually attaining good results. He was never able to win the national championship, which during that era was the second strongest in the world, behind only the Soviet Union ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gedeon Barcza
Gedeon (Gideon) Barcza (August 21, 1911, in Kisújszállás – February 27, 1986, in Budapest) was a Hungarian chess grandmaster. He was eight-time chess champion of Hungary. Chess career In 1940, Barcza took third place, behind Max Euwe and Milan Vidmar, at Maróczy Jubiläum in Budapest. In September 1942, he took sixth place at the first European Championship in Munich; the event was won by Alexander Alekhine. In 1948, he took second place in Karlovy Vary; the event was won by Jan Foltys. In 1948, he tied for second/third place in Venice; the event was won by Miguel Najdorf. In 1950, he tied for second/fourth place in Salzbrunn (Szczawno Zdrój); the event was won by Paul Keres. In 1952, he took fifteenth place in Saltsjöbaden (interzonal). In 1957, he won in San Benedetto del Tronto. In 1961, he took third place in Vienna. In 1962, he tied for third/sixth place in Moscow. In 1962, he tied for fourteenth/fifteenth place in Stockholm (interzonal). Barcza won the Hungaria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vugar Gashimov
Vugar Gasim oghlu Hashimov ( az, Vüqar Qasım oğlu Həşimov; 24 July 1986 – 11 January 2014), known internationally as Vugar Gashimov , was an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. He was a noted player of blitz chess. At his peak ranking, he was No. 6 in the world, achieved in November 2009. He won the Athens 2005 ( Acropolis International), and tied for first at the Cappelle-la-Grande open in 2007, he again tied for first and was winning it on tie-break in 2008. He won the strong and traditional invitation tournament at Reggio Emilia in 2010–11 on tie-break above Francisco Vallejo Pons. Early life Gashimov was born on 24 July 1986 in Baku. He was the son of a retired army colonel who served at the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan. Chess career In 2010, Gashimov won the Reggio Emilia chess tournament. Team competitions Gashimov played for Azerbaijan in the Chess Olympiads of 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008. He played in the gold medal-winning Azerbaijani team at the European Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pentala Harikrishna
Pentala Harikrishna (born 10 May 1986) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He became the youngest grandmaster from India after attaining the title in 2001, a record now held by Gukesh D. He was Commonwealth Champion in 2001, World Junior Champion in 2004, and Asian Individual Champion in 2011. He is currently third highest rated player in India. Harikrishna won the Tata Steel Group B in 2012 and the Biel MTO Masters Tournament Open event in 2013. He represented India at seven Chess Olympiads from 2000 to 2012 and won team Bronze at the World Team Chess Championships in 2010. At the Asian Team Championships, Pentala won team gold once, team silver twice and individual bronze once. In February 2013, Harikrishna's FIDE rating passed 2700 for the first time. He broke into the top ten players in the world in November 2016 with a FIDE rating of 2768. Early life Pentala Harikrishna was born in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. He learned chess at the age of 4 from his grandfather ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levon Babujian
Levon Babujian ( hy, Լեւոն Բաբուջյան , born May 8, 1986, in Yerevan) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster. He attended the Armenian State Institute of Physical Culture and Sport and is the director of a chess school in the Malatia-Sebastia District of Yerevan. In April 2006 Levon Babujian achieved the title of International Master (IM). He is a Grandmaster (GM) since January 2010. Tournamtents *2008 Shared second-third at Vasylyshyn Memorial *2009 First at Istanbul *2011 Won the 81st Yerevan City Chess Championship *2011 Shared second-sixth in the 4th Karen Asrian Memorial in Jermuk *2012 Third in the Armenian Chess960 Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 (often read in this context as 'chess nine-sixty' instead of 'chess nine hundred sixty'), is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former world chess champion Bobby Fischer. Fischer announ ... Championship. *2019 First at the Kazakhstan Cup Final. References External links * 1986 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Anisimov
Pavel Animisov (born April 19, 1986 in Leningrad, Russia) is a Russian chess Grandmaster (2019). His highest rating was 2541 (in July 2012). His current rating is 2527 (May 2020). He currently plays for Montenegro. Champion of Russia among under 14 years old (2000). Olympic champion in the Russian national children team (2000). He took 1-4 place in the championship of Russia up to 16 years (2001). He received the International master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ... title in 2005. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Animisov, Pavel 1986 births Russian chess players Montenegrin chess players Chess grandmasters Living people People from Saint Petersburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatiana Kosintseva
Tatiana Anatolyevna Kosintseva (russian: Татьяна Анатольевна Косинцева; born 11 April 1986) is a Russian chess player. She was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2007. Kosintseva is a two-time European women's champion and three-time Russian women's champion. She was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2010 and 2012, and at the Women's European Team Chess Championships of 2007, 2009 and 2011. Career Kosintseva started to play chess at 6 years old along with elder sister Nadezhda, when coming back home from dance lessons with their mother they happened upon a chess club and decided then and there to take up the game. As a youngster, she recalls being inspired by a book of former world champion Alexander Alekhine's games and was similarly impressed by the games of Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer. At the World Youth Chess Championships, she earned silver medals at the Girls Under 10 (Cala Galdana, 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexey Kim
Alexey Eduardovich Kim (born April 5, 1986) is a Soviet-born South Korean chess player. He is the only South Korean to hold the FIDE title of Grandmaster. Biography A third-generation ethnic Korean, Kim was born on April 5, 1986, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in the Soviet Union. He learned chess from his grandfather, Nikolay Vladimirovich Kim, at four years old. When he was eleven, he won the Moscow Junior Championship. Kim became a FIDE master in 2000, an international master in 2001, and a grandmaster in 2004. In 2006, he paid the required fee to FIDE (chess's international governing body) to switch his national federation to South Korea, in keeping with his grandfather's wishes. Kim played on the South Korean team in the 2008 Chess Olympiad. In 2013, he shared first place with Stanislav Novikov, Batuhan Dastan, Hagen Poetsch, Ralf Åkesson, Jonathan Hawkins and Kacper Drozdowski in the 18th Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
