Viktor Nikolaevich Gavrikov (; 29 July 1957 – 27 April 2016) was a Lithuanian-Swiss chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1984. Gavrikov shared first place with Gintautas Piešina in the 1978 Lithuanian Championship in

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. In 1983 he won the under-26 Soviet championship. Two years later he jointly won the 52nd Soviet Championship with Mikhail Gurevich and

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in Riga, and tied for second place in the 1986 event, won by

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. In 1988, Gavrikov tied for first place with

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in the World

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Championship, held in

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, Mexico, finishing second on tiebreak. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he emigrated to Switzerland. He won the Grandmaster Tournament of the

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in 1994, and the Swiss Championship at

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in 1996. He tied for first with

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, Darius Ruzele,

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and Vytautas Slapikas in the Lithuanian Championship of 2000, taking third place on countback. Gavrikov spent the last years of his life in Bulgaria, where he moved to in 2010.

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