|
David Arutinian
220px, David Arutinian in Dresden 2008 David Gareginovich Arutinian (born May 31, 1984) is a Georgian chess grandmaster since 2006, and an international master since 2002. He is ranked 9th in Georgia and 453rd in the world. His highest rating was 2593 (in April 2008). Arutinian's main results are: * Strasbourg Prestige open — 1st place * Aeroflot open A2 — 1st place. * In 2007, tied for first place with Wang Yue, Vugar Gashimov, Vasily Yemelin and Yuri Drozdovskij in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open. * In 2008 he tied for 1st–8th with Vugar Gashimov, Sergey Fedorchuk, Yuriy Kryvoruchko, Konstantin Chernyshov, Andrei Deviatkin, Vasilios Kotronias and Erwin L'Ami in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open. * 2009: 2nd place in 16th Vienna Open * 2010: he tied for 1st–8th with Sergey Volkov, Viorel Iordăchescu, Eduardo Iturrizaga, Gadir Guseinov, Hrant Melkumyan, Aleksej Aleksandrov and Tornike Sanikidze in the 12th Dubai Open. * 2011: Sydney International Open — tied ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viorel Iordăchescu
Viorel Iordăchescu (born 20 April 1977) is a chess grandmaster from the Republic of Moldova, member of the Olympic Team of the Republic of Moldova, FIDE Senior Trainer, commentator, the President of thNational Chess Academy of Moldova and politician. He was awarded the title of grandmaster by FIDE in 1999. Iordachescu competed in the FIDE World Championship in 2000 and 2004. In 2002, he finished third in the Corus Tournament C group in Wijk aan Zee. He tied for 1st–6th places with Reiner Odendahl, Erwin l'Ami, Daniël Stellwagen, Susanto Megaranto and Friso Nijboer at HZ Open in 2005. Iordăchescu won the 2006/07 Reggio Emilia tournament. In 2009 he tied for 2nd–4th with Alexey Korotylev and Sergei Tiviakov at the Moscow Open and won the 13th Open International Bavarian Championship in Bad Wiessee on tiebreak over Vitaly Kunin, Abhijeet Gupta and Gerald Hertneck. In 2010, Iordachescu tied for 1st–8th with Sergey Volkov, Hrant Melkumyan, Eduardo Iturrizaga, Gadir G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna-Maja Kazarian
Anna-Maja Kazarian (born 7 January 2000) is a Dutch chess player who holds the titles of FIDE Master (FM) and Woman International Master (WIM), and a Twitch (service), Twitch live streamer. She was the 2020 Dutch Women's Internet Chess Champion and has also been an under-16 girls' European Youth Champion. Kazarian has a peak FIDE rating of 2320, which she achieved in 2016. She has represented the Netherlands at the Chess Olympiad and the European Team Chess Championship. Kazarian began playing chess at age six after being introduced to the game by her grandfather in Georgia, and began competing a year later. She earned the Woman FIDE Master (WFM) title by finishing runner-up in the under-12 girls' division at the European Youth Chess Championships in 2012. Three years later, Kazarian had a career-best performance rating (chess), performance rating of 2359 at the same tournament in 2015 when she won the under-16 girls' division and earned her first Woman International Master (WIM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Cheng
Bobby Cheng (born 20 March 1997) is a Chinese-Australian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2019. Cheng was world champion in the under 12 category in 2009, the only Australian in history to win a world title. Cheng won Australian Open championship in 2013 and Australian chess Championship in 2016. Biography and career Cheng was born in Hamilton, New Zealand. His early trainers in New Zealand were Bruce Wheeler and Ewen Green, followed by GM Darryl Johansen after Cheng arrived in Australia. He finished tied for third place in the Under 10 division of the World Youth Chess Championships in 2007, the year he and his family moved to Melbourne, Australia. In November 2009, Cheng transferred national federations from New Zealand to Australia and won the Under 12 title at the World Youth Championships in Kemer, Turkey. Cheng won the Australian Junior Championship in January 2010, at age 12, becoming the youngest player ever to do so, and won the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keti Tsatsalashvili
Keti Tsatsalashvili ( ka, ქეთი წაწალაშვილი; born 10 June 1992) is a Georgian chess player and Woman Grandmaster (WGM) since 2011. Biography Keti Tsatsalashvili repeatedly represented Georgia at the European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in different age groups, where she won six medals: two gold (in 2007, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the U16 girls age group and in 2010, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U18 girls age group), two silver (in 2009, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the U18 girls age group and in 2009, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U18 girls age group) and two bronze (in 2007, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U16 girls age group and in 2008, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the U16 girls age group). Keti Tsatsalashvili has won multiple international chess tournaments, including in 2010, Florencio Campomanes memorial women's chess to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sopiko Guramishvili
Sopiko Guramishvili ( ka, სოფიკო გურამიშვილი; born 1 January 1991) is a Georgian-Dutch chess player, author, and commentator who holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). Having represented Georgia for the bulk of her playing career, she has been an under-16 girls' World Youth Champion and an under-18 girls' Georgian national champion. Guramishvili has a peak FIDE rating of 2441 and has been ranked as high as No. 42 in the world among women. Guramishvili began playing chess at age five. She regularly qualified for and participated in the World Youth Chess Championships from age ten onwards. She won a silver medal in the under-12 girls' division in 2003 and a gold medal in the under-16 girls' division in 2006. Guramishvili first qualified for the Georgian Women's Chess Championship at age 17. Her best finish was in 2009, when she came in joint second place and earned a WGM norm. Guramishvili was awarded the WGM t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Team Chess Championship
The European Team Championship (often abbreviated in texts and games databases as ''ETC'') is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of European nations whose chess federations are located in zones 1.1 to 1.9. This more or less accords with the wider definition of Europe used in other events such as the Eurovision Song Contest and includes Israel, Russia and the former Soviet States. The competition is run under the auspices of the European Chess Union (ECU). Championship history The idea was conceived in the early 1950s, when chess organisers became aware of the need for another international team event. Consequently, a men-only Championship was devised and held every four years, with the intention of filling in the gaps between Olympiads. More recently, the Championship has grown in importance and popularity and is regarded as a prestigious tournament in its own right, providing for male and female participants. The first Championship Final was held in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess Olympiad
The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 and 2021, with a rapid time control that affected players' online ratings. The use of the name "Chess Olympiad" for FIDE's team championship is of historical origin and implies no connection with the Olympic Games. Birth of the Olympiad The first Olympiad was unofficial. For the 1924 Olympics an attempt was made to include chess in the Olympic Games but this failed because of problems with distinguishing between amateur and professional players. While the 1924 Summer Olympics was taking place in Paris, the 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad also took place in Paris. FIDE was formed on Sunday, July 20, 1924, the closing day of the 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad. FIDE organised the first Official Olympiad in 1927 which took place in London. The O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bassem Amin
Bassem Amin (; born 9 September 1988) is an Egyptian chess player and medical doctor. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2006. Amin is the highest rated Egyptian and African player and the only medical doctor to have a FIDE peak rating of 2700+. Amin is also a six-time and the current African chess champion. Career Early on in his chess career, Amin was the Arab Youth Chess Champion once in the U10 division, once in the U12 division, and twice in the U14 division. He took 4th place in the 2004 World Youth Chess Championship U-16 in Greece. Soon after, he won the 2005 African Junior Chess Championship, qualifying him to participate in the 2005 World Junior Chess Championship. He won his first Arab Chess Championship title at the 2005 Arab Chess Championship, simultaneously acquiring his first grandmaster norm. In the same year, he won the African championship and took part in World Youth Chess Championship (U18), finishing third. Arab Champion Under 20 3 time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buchholz System
The Buchholz system (also spelled Buchholtz) is a ranking or scoring system in chess developed by Bruno Buchholz (died ca. 1958) in 1932, for Swiss system tournaments . It was originally developed as an auxiliary scoring method, but more recently it has been used as a tie-breaking system. It was probably first used in the 1932 Bitterfeld tournament. It was designed to replace the Neustadtl score . The method is to give each player a raw score of one point for each win and a half point for each draw. When used as an alternative scoring system, each player's Buchholz score is calculated by adding the raw scores of each of the opponents they played and multiplying this total by the player's raw score . When used for tie-breaking among players with the same raw score, no multiplying is necessary and the sum of the raw scores of the opponents played is used to break ties . When used as a tie-break system, it is equivalent to the Solkoff system. The major criticism of this syst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tornike Sanikidze
Tornike Sanikidze (born 1989) is a Georgian chess grandmaster. He was awarded the titles of International Master in 2005 and Grandmaster in 2008. He won the Georgian championship in 2009. He has represented Georgia at the Chess Olympiad, including: * 2012, where he scored 4/7 on board three. * 2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ..., scoring 3½/6 on first reserve. References External links * *Tornike Sanikidzechess games at 365Chess.com 1989 births Living people Chess players from Georgia (country) Chess grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors {{Georgia-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksej Aleksandrov
Aleksej Aleksandrov (born 11 May 1973) is a Belarusian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1997. Aleksandrov is a five-time Belarusian champion and played on the Belarusian national team at the Chess Olympiad, the World Team Chess Championship and the European Team Chess Championship. He competed in the FIDE World Championship in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2004, and in the FIDE World Cup in 2017. Selected tournament results * 1991: Victory at the USSR Junior Chess Championship * 1992: Victory at the European Junior Chess Championship * 1996: Victory at the Belarusian Chess Championship, Victory at Gistrup * 1998: Victory at a tournament in Kstovo * 2000: Second at European Individual Chess Championship * 2000: Victory at the Petroff Memorial in St. Petersburg * 2001: Victory at the 17th open at Bad Wörishofen * 2002: Shared victory at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow * 2003: Shared victory at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow * 2005: Victory at Inautomarket Open in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
