Daniil Dmitrievich Dubov (russian: Даниил Дмитриевич Дубов; born 18 April 1996) is a Russian

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grandmaster. He achieved his final norm for the Grandmaster title at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 14 days in 2011. He is a former world rapid champion, winning the

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held in

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from 26 to 28 December 2018. He is ranked 38th in the world

Chess career

2006

Dubov won two medals at the

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s: a bronze in 2006, in the U-10 division, and a silver in 2008, in the U-12.

2009

In 2009 he won the Young Stars of the World - Vanya Somov Memorial in Kirishi. In the same year he played for the Russian team that won the gold medal in the World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad. Dubov also won the individual bronze medal on board two. He won the Russian U16 rapid and blitz championships of 2009.

2011

Dubov played again in the World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad and won the team gold and the individual bronze on board one. Dubov won the Moscow Rapid Chess Championship of 2011.

2012

Dubov shared first place with Dmitry Andreikin and Nikita Vitiugov in the Russian Championship Higher League and qualified for the Superfinal of the Russian championship. In the latter he scored 4/9 points.

2013

In January, Dubov took part in the Tata Steel B tournament in Wijk aan Zee, where he scored 7½/13 points (+4-2=7) finishing fifth out of fourteen participants. At the

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he reached the third round and was eliminated by

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, after knocking out

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and former

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World Champion

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. In December, he played a friendly six-game match with Alexei Shirov called "Battle of Generations", which was won by the latter.

2015

In April 2015, he tied for first with Ian Nepomniachtchi in the

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, placing second on tiebreak.

2016

Dubov won the bronze medal at the

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2016 in

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2017

He won the Russian Higher League in July 2017 in

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, edging out

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on tiebreak. In the Russian Superfinal, which took place in St. Petersburg in December, Dubov shared 3rd-4th places with Vladimir Fedoseev, taking the bronze medal on tiebreak.

2018

Dubov served as one of Magnus Carlsen's

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for the

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. In December, Dubov won the

ahead of Carlsen,

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and Hikaru Nakamura.

2019

Dubov was selected as the Organizer's Nominee for the

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, a stage in qualification for the World Chess Championship 2020. Dubov was enrolled in the Moscow event, the first of four tournaments for the 2019 Grand Prix cycle. The Moscow tournament was a 16-player event, with Dubov being the lowest ranked participant. After an upset victory over the highest ranked player,

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, Dubov was eliminated from the Moscow Grand Prix tournament in the quarter-finals by American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura. In November, Dubov also competed in the FIDE Grand Prix event in

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. Once again he was the lowest seeded player in the tournament, but after upset wins over

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and Peter Svidler, he was in the semifinals facing Jan-Krzysztof Duda. The two matches in classical time format were drawn and the match proceeded to tie-breakers. Dubov won the first rapid game (25+10) and needed only a draw to advance to the finals. He then lost what seemed to be a completely drawn endgame in the second match to send the match to a second set of tie breakers (10+10). After drawing with the white pieces, Dubov was finally eliminated by Duda.

2020

Dubov won the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge on 3 June, beating Ding Liren in semi-finals and Hikaru Nakamura in the final after the match went to

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time control. Daniil Dubov defeated Magnus Carlsen in the quarter-finals of Airthings Masters with a score of 2.5-0.5 on 30 December. Dubov also participated in the 2020

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, where he scored 6.5/11 as well as fourth place in the event.

2021

On 21 February, Daniil Dubov conducted a simultaneous game session at Lighthouse Children's Hospice. He again served as a second for Magnus Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2021 against Ian Nepomniachtchi. This was criticized by

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and

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, saying that he should not have helped a non-Russian in a match against a fellow Russian, with Shipov saying Dubov should not play for Russia in the future. Dubov responded that he considered it to be a match between two individuals, and counter-argued that working with Carlsen would improve his chess and hence help the Russian team. In December 2021, he was granted a wildcard entry to the FIDE Grand Prix 2022. From 29–30 December, Dubov also participated in the

, where he scored 4th place with 14.5/21 points.

2022

Dubov competed in the

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; however, he was forced to forfeit his final three games due to testing positive for

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. Through February and March 2022, Dubov played in the FIDE Grand Prix 2022. In the first leg, he tied for second with

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in Pool C with a 3/6 result. In the third leg, he finished last in Pool B with a result of 2/6, finishing 21st in the standings with three points. Together with 43 other Russian elite chess players, Dubov signed an open letter to Russian president

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, protesting against the

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and expressing solidarity with the Ukrainian people.

Notable games

*Dubov, D. vs Svane, R. Batumi, Georgia. 2019. 22nd European Team Championship, round 7: Dubov finds mate in 13, in a game where his opponent's black king moves around the entire board, only to be mated on a3. *Dubov, D. vs Karjakin, S. Moscow, Russia. 2020. Russian Championship Superfinal, round 11: Dubov plays a novelty gambit in the opening then later sacrifices his queen to take down a World Champion contender.

Personal life

Dubov learned chess at the age of 6. His grandfather was Eduard Dubov (1938–2018), an international arbiter of chess and a mathematician.

References

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