Artur Yusupov
Full name	Artur Mayakovich Yusupov
Country	Germany
Born	February 13, 1960 (1960-02-13) (age 48) Moscow, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2605 (April 2007)
Peak rating	2680

Artur Mayakovich Yusupov (de: Jussupow), (born February 13, 1960 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a German International Grandmaster of chess, and a chess writer. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Moscow (disambiguation). ... The title Grandmaster is awarded to world-class chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Chess Go The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ... Chess Go The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ... German (called Deutsch in German; in German the term germanisch is equivalent to English Germanic), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and is one of the worlds major languages. ... February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Moscow (disambiguation). ... The title Grandmaster is awarded to world-class chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. ... This article is about the Western board game. ...

Chess career

He learned to play chess at the age of six and trained at the Young Pioneers' Palace in Moscow. He was a winner of the World Junior Chess Championship in 1977. This was also the year that he gained the International Master title, qualification as a grandmaster following in 1980. Second place at his first USSR Championship in 1979 (behind Geller). International tournament results in the next decade included first place at Esbjerg 1980, first at Yerevan 1982, equal fourth at Linares 1983, first at the Tunis Interzonal 1985, equal first at Montpellier Candidates 1985, and third at Linares 1988. He also won the 1986 Canadian Open Chess Championship. The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 event (players must have been under 20 years old on the 1st of January in the year of competition). ... The title International Master is awarded to outstanding chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. The title is open to both men and women. ... Winner list: 1991 (58th,Moscow) Minasian, Artashes 1990 (57th,Leningrad) Beliavsky, Alexander / Yudasin, Leonid / Bareev, Evgeny / Vyzmanavin, Alexey ex aequo 1989 (56th,Odessa) Vaganian, Rafael 1988 (55th,Moscow) Karpov, Anatoly / Kasparov, Garry ex aequo 1987 (54th,Minsk) Beliavsky, Alexander 1986 (53rd,Kiev) Tseshkovsky, Vitaly 1985 (52nd,Riga) Gavrikov, Viktor / Gurevich... Efim Petrovich Geller (March 2, 1925 – November 17, 1998) was a Soviet chess player. ... Old watertower in Esbjerg View to Esbjerg harbour from the watertower (May 2005) Map of the municipality Esbjerg is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region Syddanmark (South Denmark Region) on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in southwest Denmark. ... Location of Yerevan in Armenia Coordinates: , Country Established 782 BC Government  - Mayor Yervand Zakharyan Area  - City 227 km²  (87. ... A number of places are called Linares . ... Interzonal chess tournaments were tournaments organized by FIDE, the World Chess Federation. ... Montpellier (Occitan Montpelhièr) is a city in the south of France. ... The contents of this page have been moved to http://en. ... The Canadian Open Chess Championship is Canadas Open chess championship, first held in 1956, and held annually since 1973, usually in mid-summer. ...

By this time Yusupov was also chasing World Championship qualification, reaching the semi-final of the Candidates Tournament on three occasions in 1986 (defeated by Andrei Sokolov), 1989 (defeated by Anatoly Karpov) and 1992 (defeated by Jan Timman). This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Candidates Tournament was an annual chess tournament in which various chess players play against each other. ... Andrei Yurievich Sokolov (Андрей Юрьевич Соколов; born March 20, 1963 in Vorkuta) is a Russian chess Grandmaster, now living in France. ... Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (Russian: ; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. ... Jan Timman Jan Timman (born December 14, 1951) is a famous Dutch chessplayer who had his greatest successes in the 1970s and 1980s. ...

In the early nineties, he returned to his Moscow apartment one day and disturbed some burglars. During the struggle that broke out, he was shot and considers himself lucky to have survived. Soon after, he decided to move to Germany, which has remained his home ever since.^[1]

There were further successes in tournaments; first at Hamburg 1991, first at Amsterdam 1994 and second at Horgen 1994 (a category 18 tournament). He achieved equal first at the 2002 World Open, first at the Basel Rapid 2005 and first at Altenkirchen 2005, making him the German Champion. Around this time (October 2005) he had an Elo rating of 2595, compared to his peak of 2680. The ELO rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ...

In 1999, Yusupov published a book on the Petroff Defence. He was at the time an acknowledged leading authority on the opening, and his book widely considered the most encyclopaedic and comprehensive treatment thus far. He has also been a noted expert on the Lasker Defence of the Queen's Gambit Declined, bringing many new ideas to an opening over one hundred years old. Petrovs Defence (sometimes spelled Petrof or Petroff) is the chess opening 1. ... A chess opening is the group of initial moves of a chess game (the opening moves). ... The Queens Gambit is a chess opening that starts with the moves 1. ...

Throughout his playing career, Yusupov has been coached and mentored by Mark Dvoretsky, an International Master who is widely considered to be the world's leading chess trainer.^[2] Yusupov freely acknowledges that Dvoretsky's influence has been instrumental in many of his biggest victories. The strong alliance and collaboration that developed, led to them setting up the Dvoretsky-Yusupov Chess School. Students of the Dvoretsky-Yusupov chess school include Peter Svidler, Sergei Movsesian and Vadim Zvjaginsev.^[3] Mark Izrailovich Dvoretsky (born December 9, 1947) is a world-renowned Russian chess trainer, writer and International Master. ... Peter Svidler (Пётр Свидлер; Pyotr Svidler, born June 17, 1976, in Leningrad) is a Russian chess grandmaster. ... Sergei Movsesian (b. ... Vadim Zvjaginsev (Zviagintsev) (born August 18, 1976 in Moscow) is a Russian chess grandmaster. ...

Yusupov has also been a frequent contributor to Dvoretsky's books and has been a second and advisor to both Viswanathan Anand and Peter Leko during their world championship campaigns. He is a friend and training partner of the Russian GM, Sergey Dolmatov. Dolmatov was another protégé of Dvoretsky and like Yusupov, became a Junior World Champion (in 1978). This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. ... Image:Leko2. ... Sergey Viktorovich Dolmatov (born February 20, 1959) is a Russian International Grandmaster of chess and former World Junior Chess Champion. ...

Notable game

• [1] M. Taimanov - A. Yusupov, USSR 1982, English Symmetrical, Anti-Benoni, 0-1 - Black structures his attack to undermine White's pawn centre and realise the full potential of his white-squared bishop.

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Footnotes

References

• Chess Magazine - Christmas 1985, pg. 258, Alexei Suetin article.
• Hooper, David and Whyld, Kenneth (1984). The Oxford Companion To Chess. Oxford University. ISBN 0192175408. 

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External links

• Official website
• FIDE rating card for Artur Jussupow
• Artur Yusupov at ChessGames.com
• 1077 games available for download, (.pgn format)