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European Youth Chess Championship
The European Youth Chess Championship is organized by the European Chess Union (ECU) in groups under 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 years old. The first tournament was held in 1991, and the under 8 category was introduced in 2007. Until 2002 there was also a tournament for the under 20 group (see European Junior Chess Championship). There are also specific tournaments for girls only, in the same age categories. Boys winners : Girls winners : See also * European Junior Chess Championship * European Individual Chess Championship * European Senior Chess Championship * European Team Chess Championship * World Junior Chess Championship * World Youth Chess Championship References * European Youth Champions Boys from Italian Chess Federation website U8 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Chess Union
The European Chess Union (ECU) is an independent association for the interests of European chess. Board members * Zurab Azmaiparashvili – President * Ion-Serban Dobronauteanu – Deputy President * Finnbjorn Vang – Vice President * Theodoros Tsorbatzoglou – Secretary General * Martin Huba – Treasurer * Adrian Mikhalchishin – Board Member * Johann Poecksteiner – Board Member * Jean-Michel Rapaire – Board Member * Petr Pisk – Tournament Director ECU presidents 1985-1986 Rolf Littorin, Sweden 1986-1998 Kurt Jungwirth, Austria 1998-2010 Boris Kutin, Slovenia 2010-2014 Silvio Danailov, Bulgaria 2014- Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Georgia Member federations * Albania – Federata Shqiptare e Shahut * Andorra – Federació d'Escacs Valls d'Andorra * Armenia – Հայաստանի շախմատի ֆեդերացիա * Austria – Österreichischer Schachbund * Azerbaijan – Azərbaycan Şahmat Federasiyası * Belarus – Белорусская Федерация Ш ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gadir Guseinov
Gadir Guseinov ( az, Qədir Hüseynov; born 21 May 1986) is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. he is ranked as No. 3 in Azerbaijan. Career Born in Moscow, Guseinov started playing chess under the guidance of Shahin Hajiev. He lived in his native city and played for Russia from 1994 to 1998. In 1994, he won the European under-10 championship in Băile Herculane. In 2008 tied for 1st–8th with Nigel Short, Vadim Milov, Aleksej Aleksandrov, Baadur Jobava, Alexander Lastin, Tamaz Gelashvili and Farid Abbasov in the President's Cup in Baku. In April 2010, Guseinov tied for 1st-8th place in the 12th Dubai Open Chess Championship with Viorel Iordachescu, Hrant Melkumyan, Sergey Volkov, Eduardo Iturrizaga, David Arutinian, Aleksej Aleksandrov and Tornike Sanikidze. Guseinov won the Ugra Governor's Chess Blitz Cup in 2011. In 2013 he tied for 1st–3rd with Igor Kurnosov and Aleksandr Shimanov in the Nakhchivan Open. Guseinov was nominated by FIDE president to compete in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Kundin
Alexander Kundin ( he, קונדין אלכסנדר; born 25 June 1981) is an Israeli chess International Master (2004). Biography Alexander Kundin started playing chess at the age of five. He repeatedly represented Israel at the European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championship The World Youth Chess Championship is a FIDE-organized worldwide chess competition for boys and girls under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Twelve world champions are crowned every year. Since 2015, the event has been split into "World Cade ...s in different age groups, where he won four medals: gold (in 1997, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U16 age group), silver (in 1993, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U12 age group) and two bronze (in 1997, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the U16 age group and in 1999, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U18 age group). In 2004, Alexander Kundin was awarded the FIDE International Master ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ''maakond'' (county). Tallinn is the main financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located northwest of the country's second largest city Tartu, however only south of Helsinki, Finland, also west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, north of Riga, Latvia, and east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical name Reval. Tallinn received Lübeck city rights in 1248,, however the earliest evidence of human population in the area dates back nearly 5,000 years. The medieval indigenous population of what is now Tallinn and northern Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Christianit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruslan Ponomariov
Ruslan Olehovych Ponomariov ( uk, Русла́н Оле́гович Пономарьо́в; born 11 October 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was FIDE World Chess Champion from 2002 to 2004. He won the Ukrainian Chess Championship in 2011. He was runner-up in the Chess World Cup 2005 and Chess World Cup 2009, while reaching the semi-finals in 2011 and the quarterfinals in 2007. Early career Ponomariov was born in Horlivka in Ukraine. He was taught to play chess by his father at the age of 5. At 9 he became a first category player, and in September 1993 he moved to Kramatorsk. Here Ponomariov attended the A. V. Momot Chess School and was trained by Boris Ponomariov. In 1994 he placed third in the World Under-12 Championship at the age of ten. In 1996 he won the European Under-18 Championship at the age of just twelve, and the following year won the World Under-18 Championship. In 1998, at the age of fourteen, he was awarded the Grandmaster title, making him the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabian Doettling
Fabian Doettling (born 4 August 1980) is a German chess Grandmaster (2003). Biography In 1995, Fabian Doettling won the German Youth Chess Championship in the U15 age group. In 1996, in Rimavská Sobota he won the European Youth Chess Championship in the U16 age group. In 1998, Fabian Doettling ranked 5th in the World Youth Chess Championship in the U18 age group. In 2000, 2002 and 2003, Fabian Doettling played for the German team at the Men's Chess Mitropa Cup, which in 2002 he won an individual gold medal and team silver medal, but in 2003 he became a winner in the team competition. In 2001, he shared first place in the U.S. Open Chess Championship. In 2003, Fabian Doettling won the International Chess Tournament in Bad Wiessee, but in 2005 he was the first in the International Chess Festival ''Untergrombach Open''. In 2006, he won the International Chess Tournament in Baden-Baden, as well as the ''Dos Hermanas'' Online Chess Tournament, in which Fabian Doettling defeated Gat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evgeni Kobylkin
Evgeni Kobylkin ( uk, Євгеній Кобилкин; born 6 February 1982) is a Ukrainian chess player who holds the title of FIDE Master (FM) (2006). Biography Evgeni Kobylkin is student of Luhansk chess school. He played for Ukraine in European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in the different age groups and best result reached in 2006 in Rimavská Sobota, when he won European Youth Chess Championship in the U14 age group. About this success he became FIDE Master (FM) title. Evgeni Kobylkin two times has participated in Ukrainian Chess Championship final's (2000, 2003). He two-times won Ukrainian Team Chess Championship with Donetsk Donetsk ( , ; uk, Донецьк, translit=Donets'k ; russian: Донецк ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin and Stalino (see also: cities' alternative names), is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine loca ... chess club ''Danko-Donbass'' (1997, 1999). References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Drozdovskij
Yuri Drozdovskij (, born 22 May 1984 in Odesa) is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster. He won the European Rapid Championship in 2006 and tied for first place at Cappelle-la-Grande in 2007. Drozdovskij was equal first (losing out on tie-break to Pavel Tregubov) at the 4th Pivdenny Bank Cup 2008, a rapid tournament held annually in Odesa. This was an outstanding result, as he finished ahead of Boris Gelfand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi. In 2009 he was a member of the bronze medal-winning Ukrainian team at the 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 .... His current Elo rating is 2614. Personal life Since 2009 Yuri Drozdovskij is married to Ukrainian chess grandmaster Natalia Zdebskaya. References External link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teimour Radjabov
Teimour Boris oghlu Radjabov (also spelled Teymur Rajabov; az, Teymur Boris oğlu Rəcəbov, ; born 12 March 1987) is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster, ranked number 18 in the world A former child prodigy, he earned the title of Grandmaster in March 2001 at the age of 14, making him the second youngest grandmaster in history at the time. In 2003, Radjabov gained international attention after beating the then world No. 1 Garry Kasparov in the Linares tournament, followed by victories over former world champions Viswanathan Anand and Ruslan Ponomariov all in the same year. Radjabov continued his progress over the years to become an elite chess player. In November 2012, he achieved his peak rating of 2793 and was ranked as number 4 in the world. This made Radjabov the fifteenth highest rated player in chess history. He has thrice competed at the Candidates Tournament, in 2011, 2013, and 2022 (where he obtained the 3rd place); he also qualified for the 2020 edition but withdr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Šimáček
Pavel Šimáček (born 28 April 1979) is a Czech 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 dist ... grandmaster. He won the Czech Chess Championship in 2009. Chess career Born in 1979, Šimáček earned his international master title in 2002 and his grandmaster title in 2018. He won the Czech Chess Championship in 2009. He is the No. 16 ranked Czech player as of May 2018. References External links * * 1979 births Living people Chess grandmasters Czech chess players {{CzechRepublic-chess-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Fedorchuk
Sergey Fedorchuk ( ua, Сергій Федорчук, translit=Serhiy Fedorchuk; born 14 March 1981) is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2002. Career In 1995 Fedorchuk won the European Youth Chess Championship in the Under 14 category. In 2006 he won a rapid tournament held in Banyoles and shared first place with Gabriel Sargissian and Tigran L. Petrosian in the 8th Dubai Open. In 2008 he tied for 1st–8th with Vugar Gashimov, David Arutinian, Yuriy Kryvoruchko, Konstantin Chernyshov, Andrei Deviatkin, Vasilios Kotronias and Erwin L'Ami in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open tournament. In 2009 he tied for 1st–2nd with Murtas Kazhgaleyev in the Paris City Chess Championship and came first at Nantes. He won the Paris Championship of 2012 and 2014. Fedorchuk tied for 1st–8th with Sanan Sjugirov, Parimarjan Negi, Maxim Rodshtein, Eric Hansen, Vlad-Cristian Jianu, Alexei Fedorov and Yuri Vovk in the 2013 Cappelle-la-Grande ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkadij Naiditsch
Arkadij Naiditsch ( az, Arkadi Naydiç; born 25 October 1985) is an Azerbaijani (since 2015) chess grandmaster who previously represented Latvia (until 2005) and Germany (2005–2015). Career In 1995 he won the European Under-10 championship in Verdun. Naiditsch was the winner of the Dortmund Sparkassen 2005 Tournament, ahead of higher-rated and well-known players such as Loek van Wely, Veselin Topalov, Peter Svidler, Vladimir Kramnik, Michael Adams, and Peter Leko. In 2007, he won the German national championship based in Bad Königshofen. In 2011 he won the 15th International Neckar Open with a score of 8½/9. This achievement enabled him to cross the 2700 Elo rating mark. In the same year Naiditsch played on the top board for the German team that won the gold medal at the European Team Chess Championship in Porto Carras. Naiditsch won the Grandmaster Group B of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2013 in Wijk aan Zee on tiebreak over Richárd Rapport after both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
