Maxim Turov (; born 7 December 1979) is a Russian
chess
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player. He was awarded the title of
Grandmaster by
FIDE
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in 1999.
Turov participated in the 1st Children's Chess Olympiad, held in Linares in 1993, as part of Russia "A" team, which won the gold medal. In 2005 and 2011 he won the Open Dutch Championship in
Dieren
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Dieren was a separate municipality until 1818, when it became a part of Rheden.
The Gazelle bicycle facto ...
.
In 2009, he tied for 1st–2nd with
Alexander Lastin
Alexander Lastin (russian: Александр Ластин; 30 November 1976 – 23 January 2015) was a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1997.
Lastin was born in Arkhangelsk and at three years old he move ...
in the Doroshkevich Memorial, shared first with
Marius Manolache in the International Chess Festival
Eforie Nord
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, won the 9th Nordhausen Open and the 25th Faaker See Open.
In 2010, he won the
Chennai
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Open, tied for 1st–4th with
Sergei Zhigalko
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,
Rinat Jumabayev
Rinat Jumabayev ( kk, Ринат Жұмабаев (''Rinat Jūmabaev''), also spelled ''Rinat Dzhumabaev''; born 23 July 1989) is a Kazakhstani chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2009.
Biography
Many times Jumabay ...
and
Vitali Golod
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Chess career
Golod was Ukrainian champion in 1991. He then moved to Israel.
In 2004, he ...
in the 4th
Georgy Agzamov
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...
Memorial in
Tashkent
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, winning the tournament on tiebreak, tied for 1st–6th with
Dmitry Kokarev,
Alexey Dreev
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Career
While being a promising young chess talent, he was for a period ...
,
Martyn Kravtsiv
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Career
Kravtsiv was taught how to play chess on his sixth birthday by his father. Later, he ...
,
Baskaran Adhiban
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and
Aleksej Aleksandrov
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in the 2nd Orissa Open tournament in
Bhubaneshwar
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.
In 2011 he tied for 2nd–6th with
Konstantine Shanava
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,
Mikhail Ulibin
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He played in the Soviet junior champion ...
,
Robert Hovhannisyan
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In January 2011, Hovhannisyan won the 71st Armenian Chess Championship. In J ...
and
Levon Babujian
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He attended the Armenian State Institute of Physical Culture and Sport and is the director of a chess school in the Malatia-Seba ...
in the 4th
Karen Asrian
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Memorial in
Jermuk
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, tied for 2nd–7th with
Julio Granda
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Born in Camaná, he learned how to play chess at the age of five. In 1980 he won the World Infant Cup in Ma ...
,
Aleksander Delchev
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Delchev won the Bulgarian Chess Championship in 1994, 1996 and 2001. ...
,
Ivan Šarić,
Pablo Almagro Llamas
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and
Mihail Marin
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the 31st Villa de
Benasque
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Open and tied for 2nd–7th with
Deep Sengupta
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Career
Born in Chakradharpur, Sengupta started chess with t ...
,
Viacheslav Zakhartsov
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In 2007 he tied for 1st–9th with Alexei Fedorov, Vladimir Potkin, Aleksej Aleksandrov, Andrei Deviatkin, Alexander Evdok ...
,
Krisztian Szabo,
Lev Gutman
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,
Dávid Bérczes
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He tied for 3rd–6th with Ev ...
and
Samuel Shankland
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Shankland was California State Champion in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012, and Champion of State Champions in 2009. He won bron ...
in the
ZMDI
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Schachfestival in
Dresden
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.
In January 2012 Turov won the Group C of the
Tata Steel Chess Tournament
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in
Wijk aan Zee
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. Later that year, he won again the Agzamov Memorial, on tiebreak over
Mikheil Mchedlishvili
Mikheil Mchedlishvili ( ka, მიხეილ მჭედლიშვილი; born 4 June 1979) is a Georgian chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Georgian Chess Champion.
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Born in 1979, Mchedlishvili won the Georgian Chess Ch ...
and
Anton Filippov
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He won the Asian Under-16 Chess Championship in 2001 in Doha, and the Asian U18 Championship in 2004. In 2007 he tied for 1st–3rd with Vladimir Egi ...
.
In 2014, he tied for 1st–3rd with
Jan Werle
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and
Yuri Solodovnichenko in the
Oslo
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Chess International GM Tournament.
He is
married
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to
Irina Slavina Turova, also a chess player.
References
External links
Maxim Turovchess games at 365Chess.com
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1979 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Russian chess players
People from Gukovo