Ivan Cheparinov (; born November 26, 1986) is a Bulgarian
chess
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grandmaster. He is a four-time
Bulgarian champion (2004, 2005, 2012, 2018). Cheparinov competed in the
FIDE World Cup
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in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2015 and 2017. In 2018 he
switched his national federation to
Georgia
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Early years
He learned to play chess at age five and progressed quickly, winning the junior championship of Bulgaria in 2000.
Topalov's second
Until 2007, he was best known as the second of former
FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov
Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov (pronounced ; bg, Весели́н Александров Топа́лов; born 15 March 1975) is a Bulgarian chess International Grandmaster, grandmaster and former FIDE World Chess Championship, World Chess Champ ...
.
Tournament successes
In October 2006 Cheparinov shared first place at the Essent Open in
Hoogeveen
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Elim, Fluitenberg, Hoogeveen and Noordscheschut, which still have the canals which used to be throughout ...
with 7/9, and also shared first place at the Morelia Open in 2007.
At the traditional Sigeman & Co invitation tournament in
Malmö
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, Ivan Cheparinov won outright in April 2007. He shared first place—with six others—at the 2007
European Individual Chess Championship
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Apart from determining the European champions (open and women's), ...
in
Dresden
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, but
Vladislav Tkachiev
Vladislav Tkachiev (, born Moscow November 9, 1973) is a Russian-born Kazakh-French chess player.
Biography
In 1982, he moved to Kazakhstan with his parents and learnt to play chess a year later. A winner of the Kazakhstani Youth Championship in ...
won the tie-break. On the January 2008 FIDE rating list, Cheparinov was for the first time rated higher than 2700—often seen as the line that separates "elite" players from other grandmasters.
In June 2009 and in June 2010, he won the Ruy Lopez Masters, an invitation tournament, its fourth and last edition in 2010 with a
performance rating
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of 2904. In June 2011 he tied for 1st–2nd with
Atanas Kolev
Atanas Kolev ( bg, Атанас Колев; born July 15, 1967) is a Bulgarian Grandmaster of chess. His highest rating is 2602, January 2012. Kolev was the coach of the Bulgarian women's national chess team 2004–2006. Kolev and fellow Bulgar ...
in the 3rd International Albena Open chess tournament. In October 2011 he tied for 3rd–15th in the open section of the 15th Corsican Circuit.
In 2012 he tied for 1st–3rd with
Ivan Sokolov and
Jonny Hector
Jonny Hector (born 13 February 1964) is a Swedish chess player. In chess, he received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1991. In correspondence chess, he earned the ICCF title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1999.
Born in Malmö, Sweden, Hector h ...
in the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen, Denmark, winning the event on
tie-break
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Cheparinov came first in the strong
Gibraltar Chess Festival
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2014, after winning the tie-break play-off.
Training career
Cheparinov has been a part of the Killer Chess Training team since November 2020. ''What I learned with Topalov'' was his first course, and he continued with ''Pawn Sacrifice in the Middlegame''.
Handshake controversy
During the 2008
Corus chess tournament
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, Cheparinov's game in the eighth round of Group B against
Nigel Short
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was declared a forfeit after the first move because he had twice refused to shake Short's hand at the start. After Cheparinov refused to shake hands, Short informed the arbiter that in such cases, the rules prescribe an immediate forfeit (Short claims that the arbiter was not aware of this rule and had to be reminded of it). Cheparinov's team claimed the arbiter was not aware of the rule since there is no such rule. The Topalov–Kramnik game at the same tournament started without a handshake, although in that case neither player 'refused' a handshake since neither had offered one. FIDE's behavioural norms state that "
y player who does not shake hands with the opponent ... before the game starts in a FIDE tournament or during a FIDE match (and does not do it after being asked to do so by the arbiter) ... will immediately and finally lose the relevant game."
The reason for Cheparinov's refusal was, according to the appeal made by him and his manager
Silvio Danailov
Silvio Danailov ( bg, Силвио Данаилов; born 21 April 1961) is a former Bulgarian chess player and International Master. He was a manager and coach of the Bulgarian men's national chess team (1993-2000) and manager and coach of two f ...
, that "some time ago in one of his interviews Mr. Short insulted him and our team gravely". They also claimed the arbiter had not given Cheparinov another opportunity to shake hands, but had immediately declared the game a loss.
[ After their protest, the Appeals Committee of the tournament—consisting of ]Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (russian: Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник; born 25 June 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Cha ...
, Michał Krasenkow
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Lif ...
and Judit Polgár
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—overturned the decision to forfeit the game. The Committee also decided that Cheparinov should apologize to Short, that the game was to be replayed the next day and that it should start with a handshake. Short ended up winning the game. The handshake incident was recorded on video and posted by chess website Chessdom on YouTube
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, where it was viewed over 300,000 times.
References
External links
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Interview with Ivan Cheparinov
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Chess grandmasters
Bulgarian chess players
Chess Olympiad competitors
1986 births
Living people
People from Asenovgrad