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Shukhrat Safin (3 April 1970 – 20 September 2009) was an Uzbekistani Shukhrat Safin
team chess record at Olimpbase.org He died of blood cancer in his native city of
Shukhrat Safin
chess games at 365Chess.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Safin, Shukhrat 1970 births 2009 deaths Chess grandmasters Uzbekistani chess players Chess Olympiad competitors People from Samarkand 20th-century chess players
Shukhrat Safin (3 April 1970 – 20 September 2009) was an Uzbekistani chess
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player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE
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in 1999.
Safin shared first place with Mikhail Gurevich and Victor Mikhalevski
Victor (Viktor) Mikhalevski ( he, ויקטור מיכלבסקי; born 8 July 1972) is an Israeli chess grandmaster who lives in Beersheba.
his Elo rating was 2611, making him the #7 player in Israel and the 171st-highest rated player in the ...
in the Hogeschool Zeeland Tournament The Hogeschool Zeeland Tournament (or HZ Tournament) is an annual international chess tournament which takes place in Vlissingen, Netherlands.Vlissingen
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. He finished third on tiebreak score. In 2001, Safin won the Uzbekistani Chess Championship The Uzbekistani Chess Championship is a chess tournament held in Uzbekistan
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. In late November of the same year, he took part in the FIDE World Championship
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The first event recognized as a world championship was the 1886 match ...
. Here he was knocked out in the first round by Predrag Nikolić
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Biography
He first competed for the Yugoslav Championship in 1979, taking a share of second place. The following year and again in 1984, he went ...
. In 2002 Safin tied for 1st–3rd with Mikhail Ulibin
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He played in the Soviet junior champion ...
and Evgeny Gleizerov
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Together with 43 other Russian chess players, Gleizerov signed an open letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin, prot ...
at the Masters tournament of the 12th Abu Dhabi
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...
Chess Festival. In 2008 he came third in the Kolkata
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Open. In 2009, he tied for 5th-10th with Chakkravarthy Deepan, Georgy Timoshenko Georgy may refer to:
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, Sundar Shyam, Saidali Iuldachev
Saidali Iuldachev ( uz, Saidali Yo‘ldoshev, script=Latn; born January 31, 1968) is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster (1997).
Career
He won Uzbekistani Chess Championship in 1993 and 2003. In 2004 he tied for 2nd–4th with Praveen Thipsay a ...
and Andrei Deviatkin
Andrei Deviatkin (russian: Андрей Девяткин; born October 7, 1980 in Moscow) is a Russian chess grandmaster (2008).
Chess career
* 2007 – tied for 1st–9th with Alexei Fedorov, Vladimir Potkin, Aleksej Aleksandrov, Viacheslav Za ...
in the Mumbai
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Mayor Cup.
Safin played for Uzbekistan's national team in the Chess Olympiad
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s of 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2008, in the World Team Chess Championship
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2001 and in the Asian Team Chess Championship The Asian Team Chess Championship (recently also called the Asian Nations Chess Cup) is an international team chess tournament open to national federations affiliated to FIDE in Asia and Oceania. It is organized by the Asian Chess Federation, and th ...
s of 1995 and 2003. In the 1995 event he won two medals: team bronze and individual silver on board four.team chess record at Olimpbase.org He died of blood cancer in his native city of
Samarkand
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.
References
External links
Shukhrat Safin
chess games at 365Chess.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Safin, Shukhrat 1970 births 2009 deaths Chess grandmasters Uzbekistani chess players Chess Olympiad competitors People from Samarkand 20th-century chess players