Tihomir Atanassov Dovramadjiev ( bg, Тихомир Атанассо Доврамаджиев; born May 22, 1979, in

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; also known as Tihomir Titschko ("Titschko" being a short form of "Tihomir") and as '
TigerTAD
'' on the

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server, is a

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and chess boxer. He became th
first European chess boxing champion
from

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, Germany, in 2005. with both World Chess Boxing Organisation
WCBO
and World Chess Boxing Association
WCBA
acknowledgments. He has held the International Chess Federation -

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title of FIDE master since 2004. Recently, he has held the position of associate professor in the Department of

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at the

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Early years and sport activity

Before taking up chess boxing, Dovramadjiev won the Bulgarian national chess championship in his age group multiple times and had played in international chess tournaments. He was the national youth chess champion of

in 1991 (classic), 1993 (classic), 1997 (blitz), and 1998 (classic). He was a member of the youth team of the Bulgarian National Chess Team, together with the world chess champions GM

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 ...

and GM

Antoaneta Stefanova Antoaneta Stefanova ( bg, Антоанета Стефанова; born 19 April 1979) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and Women's World Champion from 2004 to 2006. She has represented Bulgaria in the Chess Olympiad in 2000 and the Women's Chess ...

. He also participated in a number of European and world youth championships, 5th place at the 1991 European Championship in

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, Romania; 3rd–4th place at the 1991 World Championship in

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, Poland; and 2nd-3rd place at the 1993 European

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Championship in

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, France. In 2001 and 2008, he won the chess section of the Varna Sport Universiade. In 1997, he was on the 1st place Kaissa team from

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at the youth team championship in

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. He continued to compete on teams from Varna, as well as on the Lokomotiv team from Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He then played in the German team league, where he competed for SV Nashuatec of

, Germany, which won the German Landesliga for the 2003–2004 season, defeating the Gillette team in the decisive match. For the Nashuatec team, he recorded a result of 22 wins, 2 draws, and 0 defeats. He has successfully participated in a number of online championships, repeatedly ranking among the top three in tournaments held by ChessBase / Playchess Germany. , his FIDE

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is 2356.

Tihomir Titschko and chess boxing

In 2003 Titschko was invited by the World Chess Boxing Organisation (WCBO) to participate in their tournaments. In October 2005, he won the first European Chess Boxing Championship by defeating Andreas Schneider (Germany) in the final event. The event was covered by a number of international media, such as

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, the

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, ChessBase, and others. A detailed video report was presented on the German television channel RBB Fernsehen.

Recent career in academia

In parallel with his sports activities in the first decade of the 21st century, Titschko has continued his career in

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. In 2002–2006, at the Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria (TU-Varna), he earned a

master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

in ergonomics and industrial design. In 2007–2009, he earned a master's in social and legal sciences, criminology, and social prevention. In 2009–2012 he was a full-time doctoral student at TU-Varna. He successfully defended his doctoral thesis: "Creating a design of osseointegrated dental implants" and received a PhD in 2012. The official state data are available on the website of Bulgarian National Centre for Information and Documentation
NACID
. During his doctoral studies, he also taught as a lecturer. In 2012, he became an

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at TU-Varna, in the Department of

. In 2018, after winning a government-sponsored competition, he held the academic position of

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at TU-Varna. Currently, his activities include teaching within the university, mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students, and participation in research projects. , according to

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, his scientific publications have over 300K views. In 2020, as a coordinator for TU-Varna, with his international colleagues from nine partner countries, he participated in the creation of the Ergonomics and Human Factors Regional Educational

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Network. , he is on the editorial board of the ''IETI Transactions on Ergonomics and Safety'' (TES, ISSN 2520-5439) and ''IETI'' Transactions on Engineering Research and Practice (TERP, ISSN 2616-1699) of the International Engineering and Technology Institute. He participated in the 16th International Symposium in Management Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Challenging Global Times. He is an academic member and special issue editor of

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Mathematics (ISSN 2227-7390; Journal Rank: JCR - Q1 (Mathematics; ) / CiteScore - Q1 (General Mathematics); Impact Factor: 2.592 (2021) ; 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.542 (2021)) Special Issue "Mathematics and Computer Programming in 2D and 3D Open Source Software". He has acted as chairman, author, or reviewer of the Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE) conference, the International Conference on Human Systems Engineering and Design (IHSED), the Intelligent Human Systems Integration (IHSI) conference, the International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies (IHIET), the International Symposium in Management (SIM), and other international science conferences and congresses.

References

External links

Tihomir Dovramadjiev official website
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Tihomir Dovramadjiev - YouTube Channel
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