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Zviagintsev started playing chess completitively at a young age at the Moscow Chess School of Olympic Reserve. Shortly after, he came into limelight by becoming one of the youngest Candidate Masters of Sport in USSR and then - one of the Youngerst Masters of Sport (National Masters)Zvjanginsev won the European under-16 championship in 1992.
Khanin began playing chess at the age of 5, and won multiple Russian Youth Championships. [3] He was mentored by Artur Gabrielian. In January 2019, Khanin took the lead at the sixth round of the Moscow Open. [4] He later earned his second GM norm after the tournament.
Morozevich is a two-time World Championship candidate (2005, 2007), two-time Russian champion and has represented Russia in seven Chess Olympiads, winning numerous team and board medals. He has won both the Melody Amber (alone 2002, shared 2004, 2006, 2008) and Biel (2003, 2004, 2006) tournaments several times.
By January 1998 Grischuk had become a FIDE Master, finished 24th in the Moscow leg of the Russian Cup with 6/9, and finished 18th at Nizhnij Novgorod. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] He finished 44th in his first Russian Chess Championship , scoring 5/11 points, [ 8 ] and was International Master and rating favourite when he tied for 8th place at the Boys Under 16 ...
He participated in the Moscow international chess festival Moscow Open youth tournament U09, winning once (2015) and ranking second once (2014). In 2016, Ilya Makoveev won the World School Chess Championship in the U11 age group. [5] In August 2018, in Riga, he won a silver medal in the European Youth Chess Championship in the U12 age group. [6]
The 1969 Soviet Chess Championship was the 37th edition of USSR Chess Championship. Held from 7 September to 12 October 1969 in Moscow. The tournament was won by Tigran Petrosian who defeats Lev Polugaevsky in a play-off match. The final were preceded by semifinals events at Barnaul, Kiev, Rostov-on-Don and Voronezh. This Championship saw a ...
Vladimir Simagin (June 21, 1919 in Moscow – September 25, 1968 in Kislovodsk) was a Russian chess grandmaster. He was three times Moscow champion (1947, 1956, and 1959), helped to train Vasily Smyslov to the World Championship, and made many significant contributions to chess openings. He died of a heart attack while playing in the Kislovodsk ...