Evgeniy Solozhenkin (born July 31, 1966 in

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), i ...

) is a Russian

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Grandmaster.

Tournament results

* 1986 : wins, at age 20, the 59th Leningrad championship * 1993 : wins the colossal

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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

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championship (won by

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, 225 players) * 2000 : 3rd at the Padova open, after Gennadi Timoshenko and

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. 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 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 ...

on several internet articles of cheating during the World Youth U14 Championship in Uruguay in September 2017. The FIDE Ethics Commission suspended Solozhenkin for making unsubstantiated allegations of cheating. A group of grandmasters wrote an open letter in support of Solozhenkin. Assaubayeva's family sued Solozhenkin for defamatory allegations made in public and in the media that offended Assaubayeva's honor and dignity. The Moscow Appellate Court ordered Solozhenkin to apologize, disavow his allegations to the media, delete the defamatory articles, and pay a compensatory sum of 100 thousand rubles.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Solozhenkin, Evgeniy 1966 births Living people Russian chess players Soviet chess players Chess Grandmasters Chess players from Saint Petersburg