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Evgeniy Solozhenkin
Evgeniy Solozhenkin (born July 31, 1966 in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian chess Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster. Tournament results * 1986 : wins, at age 20, the 59th Leningrad City Chess Championship, Leningrad championship * 1993 : wins the colossal Cappelle-la-Grande Open in France (416 players), above 19 GMs and 61 IMs * 1998 : wins for the second time the championship of his hometown (now called Saint Petersburg); wins the "Heart of Finland" tournament in Jyväskylä * 1999 : wins the 41st Reggio Emilia chess tournament; 5th at the Paris championship (won by Ashot Anastasian, 225 players) * 2000 : 3rd at the Padova open, after Gennadi Timoshenko and Erald Dervishi. For ChessBase he published the CD "''Opposite-Coloured Bishop Endgames''". His daughter (and chess student) Elizaveta Solozhenkina (born 2003) is also a chess master. Controversies Solozhenkin accused Bibisara Assaubayeva on several internet articles of cheating during the World Youth U14 Championship in Urugua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), is the second-largest city in Russia. It is situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, with a population of roughly 5.4 million residents. Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe after Istanbul, Moscow and London, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As Russia's Imperial capital, and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a federal city. The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of a captured Swedish fortress, and was named after apostle Saint Peter. In Russia, Saint Petersburg is historically and culturally associated with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gennadi Timoshenko
Gennadi ( gr, Γεννάδι) is a Greek village, seat of the municipal unit of South Rhodes, on the island of Rhodes, South Aegean region. In 2011 its population was 671. Overview The village is 64 km from the town of Rhodes and 27 km from ancient Lindos Lindos (; grc-gre, Λίνδος) is an archaeological site, a fishing village and a former municipality on the island of Rhodes, in the Dodecanese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Rhodes, of which it ... and 65 km from the Airport of Rhodes. It is an agriculture place with a bit of tourism located on the south east side of Rhodes coast. References External links South Rhodes website Populated places in Rhodes {{SouthAegean-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Chess Players
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a Federation, federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, fifteen national republics; in practice, both Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, its economy were highly Soviet-type economic planning, centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Saint Petersburg, Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kyiv, Kiev (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainian SSR), Minsk (Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian SSR), Tas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Chess Players
This list of Russian chess players lists people from Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Empire who are primarily known as chess players. The majority of these people are Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmasters. A *Vladimir Afromeev (born 1954) *Evgeny Agrest (born 1966) *Georgy Agzamov (1954–1986) *Anna Akhsharumova (born 1957) *Vladimir Akopian (born 1971) *Simon Alapin (1856–1923) *Vladimir Alatortsev (1909–1987) *Lev Alburt (born 1945) *Alexander Alekhine (1892–1946), world champion *Alexei Alekhine (1888–1939) *Evgeny Alekseev (chess player), Evgeny Alekseev (born 1985) *Nana Alexandria (born 1949) *Farrukh Amonatov (born 1978) *Dmitry Andreikin (born 1990) *Vladimir Antoshin (1929–1994) *Fricis Apsenieks (1894–1941) *Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant (born 1968) *Valentin Arbakov (1952–2004) *Lev Aronin (1920–1983) *Vladislav Artemiev (born 1998) *Andreas Ascharin (1843–1896) *Konstantin Aseev (1960–2004) *Ekaterina Atalik (born 1982) *Yuri Averbakh (1922 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1966 Births
Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso). * January 10 ** Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. ** The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance. ** A Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference convenes in Lagos, Nigeria, primarily to discuss Rhodesia. * January 12 – United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. * January 15 – 1966 Nigeria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bibisara Assaubayeva
Bibisara Assaubayeva (Kazakh language, Kazakh: Бибісара Асаубаева, Bibısara Asaubaeva; born 26 February 2004) is a Kazakhstan, Kazakh chess player. Assaubayeva holds the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She is the reigning two-time Women's World Blitz Chess Championship, World Blitz Chess Champion. She is the first Muslim woman in history to make this achievement. She was given the award of Outstanding Female Chess Player of 2021 in Asia by FIDE. She entered the Guinness World Records, Guinness World Records book in 2022, for her achievement as the youngest women's World Blitz Chess Championship , World Blitz Chess Champion, which she became in World Blitz Chess Championship 2021 , 2021 and retained in World Blitz Chess Championship 2022, 2022. Biography Born in Taraz, Kazakhstan, Assaubayeva played her first chess game at the age of four, taught by her grandfather. She won her first city championship when she was six years old. She achieved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizaveta Solozhenkina
Elizaveta Evgenievna Solozhenkina (russian: Елизавета Евгеньевна Соложенкина; born 10 September 2003) is a Russian chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 2021. Biography Elizaveta Solozhenkina is the daughter of GM Evgeniy Solozhenkin. She is a Saint Petersburg chess school schoolgirl. She started playing chess from the age of five. In 2015, Elizaveta Solozhenkina won the Russian Youth Chess Championship in the U13 girls age group. Solozhenkina repeatedly represented Russia at the European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in different age groups, where she won five medals: gold (in 2015, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U12 girls age group), three silver (in 2012 and 2013, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U10 girls age group, and in 2014, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the U12 girls age group) and bronze (in 2017, at the World Youth Chess Champi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erald Dervishi
Erald Dervishi (born 10 November 1979) is an Albanian chess grandmaster. He is a two-time Albanian Chess Champion. Chess career Born in 1979, Dervishi won the Albanian Chess Championship The Albanian Chess Championship is the annual individual national chess championship of Albania. The first tournament took place in 1933. A separate championship for women has been held since 1977. Winners : Open champions by number of titles Wo ... in 1996 and 1997. He earned his grandmaster title in 1998, becoming the first Albanian to achieve the title. He was awarded the Grand Master of Work Order by Albanian President Bujar Nishani in May 2017. In 2017, he won the 5th Francophonie Championship with a score of 7.5/9. He is the No. 1 ranked Albanian player as of July 2022. References External links * * 1979 births Living people Albanian chess players Chess grandmasters Sportspeople from Durrës {{Albania-chess-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padova
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 214,000 (). The city is sometimes included, with Venice (Italian ''Venezia'') and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE) which has a population of around 2,600,000. Padua stands on the Bacchiglione, Bacchiglione River, west of Venice and southeast of Vicenza. The Brenta River, which once ran through the city, still touches the northern districts. Its agricultural setting is the Venetian Plain (''Pianura Veneta''). To the city's south west lies the Colli Euganei, Euganaean Hills, praised by Lucan and Martial, Petrarch, Ugo Foscolo, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Shelley. Padua appears twice in the UNESCO World Heritage List: for its Botanical Garden of Padua, Botanical Garden, the most anc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USSR
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev ( Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
