|
1987 In Chess
Events in chess in 1987. Events * ''7 October – 19 December''. World champion Garry Kasparov defends his title against challenger Anatoly Karpov in the World Chess Championship 1987, 1987 World Championship in Seville. Kasparov was down 11–12 but won the 24th and final game of the match to tie and retain the title. * The inaugural Australasian Masters chess tournament is won by Grandmaster Darryl Johansen. This annual invitational event has been Australia's only round robin grandmaster event since 2013. Births * Ahmed Adly * K. Jennitha Anto * Dagur Arngrímsson * Csaba Balogh * Oluwafemi Balogun * Tsegmediin Batchuluun * Nino Batsiashvili * Diego Di Berardino * Daan Brandenburg * Krzysztof Bulski * J. Deepan Chakkravarthy * Stanislav Cifka * Karina Cyfka * Anton Demchenko * Nana Dzagnidze * Viktor Erdős * Maria Fominykh * Leonid Gerzhoy * Jessie Gilbert * Olga Gutmakher * Borislav Ivanov * Fidel Corrales Jimenez * Gawain Jones * Eesha Karavade * Muhammad Khusenkhojaev * E ... [...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] |
Anton Demchenko
Anton Demchenko (born 20 August 1987) is a Russian chess grandmaster who represents Slovenia. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2017. Career Demchenko won the PSC/Puregold International Chess Challenge in Quezon City in 2014, the ZMDI Open in Dresden in 2016, the 47th International Tournament Bosna ( pl) in Sarajevo in 2017 and the European Individual Chess Championship in Reykjavik in 2021. Together with 43 other Russian elite chess players, Demchenko signed an open letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin, protesting against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ... and expressing solidarity with the Ukrainian people. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvin Klaasen
Calvin John Klaasen (born 1987) is a South African chess player who holds the title of FIDE Master. Together with Johannes Mabusela he won the 2017 South African Closed Championships, and has played for the South African Chess Olympiad team in 2016 and 2018. See also * Chess in South Africa The following lists competitions for Chess in South Africa. Chess Olympiads South Africa first participated in the 1958 Olympiad in Munich. The team stopped participating in international chess in 1974 due to the sports boycott as a result of ... References External links * *Calvin Klaasenchess games at 365Chess.com Living people South African chess players Chess FIDE Masters Chess Olympiad competitors Place of birth missing (living people) 1987 births {{SouthAfrica-chess-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Kislik
Erik Andrew Kislik ( ; born November 14, 1987) is an American chess International Master from Hillsborough, California. He achieved his first FIDE chess rating at age 20 and the International Master title at age 24. His peak FIDE rating is 2415 (May 2012). Kislik has won a number of notable tournaments, including the First Saturday IM tournament in October 2008 and April 2009. He also won the Caissa GM tournament in February 2012 and was the joint winner of the Caissa 2012 New Year GM tournament. Bibliography Kislik is the author of the book ''Applying Logic in Chess'', published by Gambit, May 2018. This book won second place for FIDE Book of the Year award, 2018. Kislik wrote a book successor to ''Applying Logic in Chess'' called ''Chess Logic in Practice'', published by Gambit, July 2019. Contributions to opening theory In a Chess.com Chess.com is an internet chess server, news website and social networking website. The site has a freemium model in which some features a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Khusenkhojaev
Muhammad Khusenkhojaev (born 2 June 1987) is a Tajikistani chess International Master. Chess career He has represented his country in a number of chess olympiads, including 2006, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018. He played in the Chess World Cup 2017, in which he was defeated by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (; born 21 October 1990), often referred to by his initials, MVL, is a French chess grandmaster who is a former World Blitz Champion. With a peak rating of 2819, he is the seventh-highest rated player in history. ... in the first round. References External links *Muhammad Khusenkhojaevchess games at 365Chess.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Khusenkhojaev, Muhammad 1987 births Living people Tajikistani chess players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eesha Karavade
Eesha Karavade (born 21 November 1987) is a chess player from Pune, India. She holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She played for India in the Chess Olympiads of 2010, 2012 and 2014. Achievements *won the Shiv Chhatrapati Award conferred by Govt. of Maharashtra in 2004. *in 2011: first runner-up, with 8 points out of 11 rounds, in the 38th National Women's Premier Chess Championship at Chennai, which was won by Mary Ann Gomes. *Gold Medalist Commonwealth Chess Championship 2011 in South Africa. *Bronze medalist Asian Individual Women Chess Championship 2011 in Iran. *part of the women chess team that ranked 4th at the 40th Chess Olympiad 2012 at Istanbul. *part of the women chess team that won a gold medal in the Blitz format and silver medal in the Rapid and Standard format at Asian Nations Cup 2014 at Tabriz Tabriz ( fa, تبریز ; ) is a city in northwestern Iran, serving as the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. It is the List ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gawain Jones
Gawain Christopher Bernard Jones (born 11 December 1987) is an English chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2007. He won the British Chess Championship in 2012 and 2017. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2013, 2017 and 2019. Career Jones began playing chess at the age of four, competing in his first tournaments at six. In early 1997 he hit the headlines and was featured on the front page of '' The Guardian'' newspaper when he became the youngest player in the world ever to beat an International Master in an official tournament game. He has represented England in the World Junior and World Youth Championships on many occasions and since 2008 has been one of England's highest rated players. An active player on the tournament circuit, he secured his Grandmaster title with successful results at the 2nd EU Individual Open Championship in Liverpool in 2006, 2006 European Club Cup in Fügen and 4NCL 2006/7 season. Elsewhere in Europe, he took firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fidel Corrales Jimenez
Fidel Corrales Jimenez is an American chess Grandmaster. Chess career In 2009 Jimenez shared first place with Alexander Shabalov in the American Continental Chess Championship. He played in the Chess World Cup 2009 and Chess World Cup 2011, in both cases representing the Cuban Chess Federation, being defeated by Alexander Areshchenko and Judit Polgár Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the you ..., respectively, in the first rounds. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Corrales Jimenez, Fidel 1987 births Living people American chess players Chess grandmasters Place of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borislav Ivanov
Borislav Krastev Ivanov ( bg, Борислав Кръстев Иванов; born 21 December 1987) is a Bulgarian chess player. During 2012 and 2013 his results improved significantly, and he beat several grandmasters. This led to cheating accusations against him, and he was subsequently banned by the Bulgarian Chess Federation in December 2013, and stripped of his FIDE Master title and excluded from FIDE's rating list in January 2014. Chess career Ivanov currently mainly resides in Blagoevgrad, where he was born. He was enrolled as a pedagogy student at the South-West University and subsequently studied law at the same university, becoming interested in pursuing a legal career as a result of the chess controversies he had found himself in. His first coach was Marin Atanasov from Victory Club in Blagoevgrad and his chess idols are Veselin Topalov and Tigran Petrosyan. In August 2012, Ivanov won the Balkan chess festival for non-professionals held in Belogradchik. His m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Gutmakher
Olga Gutmakher ( Vasiliev, born 9 February 1987) is an Israeli chess player and engineer who holds the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM, 2004). She is a three-time Israeli Women's Chess Championship winner (2008, 2013, 2014), a Women's Chess Olympiad individual bronze medal winner (2010), and a European Women's Team Chess Championship individual bronze medal winner (2009). Biography She grew up in Ashdod. In 1998, she won Israeli Youth Chess Championship in U14 girls' age group. In 2002, she won Israeli Youth Chess Championship in U15 girls' age group. In 2003, she won Israeli Youth Chess Championship in U16 girls' age group. Olga Gutmakher is three times Israeli Women's Chess Championship winner: in 2008, 2013, and 2014. Gutmakher played for Israel in the Women's Chess Olympiads: * In 2004, at first reserve board in the 36th Chess Olympiad (women) in Calvià (+5, =3, -4), * In 2008, at fourth board in the 38th Chess Olympiad (women) in Dresden (+7, =0, - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Gilbert
Jessica "Jessie" Laura Cory Gilbert (30 January 1987 – 26 July 2006) was a British chess player. She was women's world amateur champion in 1999. Biography Jessica was the daughter of Angela and Ian Gilbert and was raised in Woldingham, Surrey. She attended Croydon High School. Her father was a career manager with the Royal Bank of Scotland. Gilbert's parents had separated in 2003, and Jessica was living in Reigate with her mother and siblings, while her father had remarried to a lawyer named Sally, and lived in Hackney, east London. Jessica Gilbert had represented England in every major chess competition from the age of 12, and came to prominence when she won the Women's World Amateur Chess Championship in January 1999 at Hastings. She was mentioned in a parliamentary debate by the then sports minister, Tony Banks, who said: "We are extremely proud of what Jessie Gilbert has achieved for chess and for this country." Thanks to this victory, she also gained the titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Gerzhoy
Leonid Gerzhoy (born November 7, 1987) is a Canadian chess player who holds the FIDE title of International Master. Biography Gerzhoy was born on November 7, 1987, in Moscow and moved to Israel in 1992. He became an International Master there by 2002. In 2003 he played for Israel at World Youth Chess Olympiad in Denizli where he won 6th place and a rank of 8 points. In 2005 he immigrated to Canada and a year later won a second place at the Canadian Championship. In 2007 he became a winner of Canadian Junior Championship and by 2009 received a Grandmaster norm at the World Open. In 2010 he was a winner of the Reading Week Open tournament of Hart House and next year won again at the Philadelphia International with 8 out of 9 score. The same year, during Ontario Open he tied a 2nd-3rd game with Bator Sambuev. During the 2010 Chess Olympiad he won three games in a row with three draws out of nine games total. Two years later he participated at the 2012 Olympiad, this time in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
